COCHONNE, _f._ (popular), _lewd girl_. (Ironically) Elle n’est pas jolie, mais elle est si cochonne! COCHONNEMENT, _adv._ (popular), _in a disgusting manner_. COCHONNERIE, _f._ (popular), _any article of food having pork for a basis_. COCHONNERIES, _f. pl._ (popular), _indecent talk or actions_. COCO, _m._ (military), _horse_. La botte à ----, _trumpet call for stables_, (literally) La botte de foin à coco. (Popular) Coco, _brandy_; _head_. See TRONCHE. Avoir le ---- déplumé, _to be bald, or to have a_ “bladder of lard.” For synonymous expressions, see AVOIR. Avoir le ---- fêlé, _to be cracked_, “to be a little bit balmy in one’s crumpet.” For synonyms see AVOIR. Colle-toi ça dans le ----, or passe-toi ça par le ----, _eat that or drink that_. Dévisser le ----, _to strangle_. Monter le ----, _to excite_. Se monter le ----, _to get excited_; _to be too sanguine_. Il a graissé la patte à ----, _is said of a man who has bungled over some affair_. (Familiar) Coco épileptique, _champagne wine_, “fiz,” or “boy.” COCODÈTE, _f._ (familiar), _stylish woman always dressed according to the latest fashion_, a “dasher.” COCONS, _m. pl._, stands for co-conscrits, _first-term students at the Ecole Polytechnique_. COCOTTE, _f._ (popular), _term of endearment to horses_. Allons, hue ----! _pull up, my beauty!_ (Familiar and popular) Cocotte, _a more than fast girl or woman_, a “pretty horse-breaker,” see GADOUE; (theatrical) _addition made by singers to an original theme_. COCOTTERIE, _f._ (familiar), _the world of the cocottes_. See COCOTTE. COCOVIEILLES, _f. pl._, _name given by fashionable young ladies of the aristocracy to their old-fashioned elders, who return the compliment by dubbing them_ “cocosottes.” COCUFIEUR, _m._ (popular), _one who cuckoos, that is, one who lays himself open to being called to account by an injured husband as the co-respondent in the divorce court_. COENNE, or COUENNE, _f._ (thieves’), de lard, _brush_. (Familiar and popular) Couenne, _stupid man_, _dunce_. COËRE, _m._ (thieves’), le grand ----, _formerly the king of rogues_. CŒUR, _m._ (popular), jeter du ---- sur le carreau, _to vomit_. A pun on the words “hearts” and “diamonds” of cards on the one hand, avoir mal au ----, _to feel sick_, and “carreau,” _flooring_, on the other. Valet de ----, _lover_. CŒUR D’ARTICHAUT, _m._ (popular), _man or woman with an inflammable heart_. Paillasson, quoi! cœur d’artichaut, C’est mon genre; un’ feuille pour tout l’monde, Au jour d’aujourd’hui j’gobe la blonde; Après d’main, c’est la brun’ qu’i m’faut. =GILL=, _La Muse à Bibi_. COFFIER (thieves’), abbreviation of escoffier, _to kill_, “to cook one’s gruel.” COFFIN, _m._, _peculiar kind of desk at the Ecole Polytechnique_. From the inventor’s name, General Coffinières. COGNAC, _m._ (thieves’), _gendarme or police officer_, “crusher,” “copper,” or “reeler.” See POT-À-TABAC. COGNADE, _f._, or COGNE (thieves’), _gendarmerie_.