Argot and slang : $b a new French and English dictionary of the cant words, quaint expressions, slang terms and flash phrases used in the high and low life of old and new ParisBarrère, Albert
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Argot and slang : $b a new French and English dictionary of the cant words, quaint expressions, slang terms and flash phrases used in the high and low life of old and new Paris
Barrère, Albert
French language -- Dictionaries -- English; French language -- Slang -- Dictionaries
CLIQUE, _f._ (popular), _scamp_, or “bad egg;” _diarrhœa_, or
“jerry-go-nimble.” (Military) La ----, _the squad of drummers and
buglers_.
Exempts de service, ils exercent généralement une
profession quelconque (barbier, tailleur, ajusteur de
guêtres, etc.) qui leur rapporte quelques bénéfices. Ayant
ainsi plus de temps et plus d’argent à dépenser que leurs
camarades, ils ont une réputation, assez bien justifiée
d’ailleurs, de bambocheurs; de là, ce nom de clique qu’on
leur donne.--_La Langue Verte du Troupier._
CLIQUETTES, _f. pl._ (popular), _ears_, or “wattles.”
CLODOCHE, _m._ (familiar), _description of professional comic dancer
with extraordinarily supple legs, such as the Girards brothers, of
Alhambra celebrity_.
CLOPORTE, _m._ (familiar), _door-keeper_. Properly _woodlouse_. A pun
on the words clôt porte.
CLOU, _m._ (military), _guard-room_; _cells_, “jigger;” _bayonet_.
Coller au ----, _to imprison_, “to roost.” (Popular) Clou, _bad
workman_; _pawnshop_. Mettre au ----, _to pawn_, _to put_ “in lug.”
Clou de girofle, _decayed black tooth_. (Theatrical and literary) Le
---- d’une pièce, d’un roman, _the chief point of interest in a play or
novel_, literally _a nail on which the whole fabric hangs_.
CLOUER (popular), _to imprison_, “to run in;” _to pawn_, “to blue, to
spout, to lumber.”
CLOUS, _m. pl._ (popular), _tools_. (Printers’) Petits ----, _type_.
Lever les petits ----, _to compose_. (Military) Clous, _foot-soldiers_,
or “mud-crushers.”
COAGULER (familiar), se ----, _to get drunk_. See SCULPTER.
CÔBIER, _m._, _heap of salt in salt-marshes_.
COCANGES, _f. pl._ (thieves’), _walnut-shells_. Jeu de ----, _game of
swindlers at fairs_.
COCANGEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _swindler_. See COCANGES.
COCANTIN, _m._ (popular), _business agent acting as a medium between a
debtor and a creditor_.
COCARDE, _f._ (popular), _head_. Avoir sa ----, _to be tipsy_. Taper
sur la ----, _is said of wine which gets into the head_.
Ma joie et surtout l’petit bleu
Ça m’a tapé sur la cocarde!
_Parisian Song._
COCARDER (popular), se ----, _to get tipsy_. See SCULPTER.
Tout se passait très gentiment, on était gai, il ne fallait
pas maintenant se cocarder cochonnement, si l’on voulait
respecter les dames.--=ZOLA=, _L’Assommoir_.
COCARDIER, _m._ (military), _military man passionately fond of his
profession_.
COCASSERIE, _f._ (familiar), _strange or grotesque saying, writing, or
deed_.
COCHE, _f._ (popular), _fat, red-faced woman_.
COCHON, _m._ (popular), de bonheur! (ironical) _no luck!_ Ça n’est pas
trop ----, _that’s not so bad_. C’est pas ---- du tout, _that’s very
nice_. Mon pauvre ----, je ne te dis que ça! _my poor fellow, you are
in for it!_ Etre ----, _to be lewd_. Se conduire comme un ----, _to
behave in a mean, despicable way_. Soigner son ----, _is said of one
who lives too well_. Un costume ----, _a suggestive dress_.
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