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
COTE, _f._ (lawyers’), _stolen goods or money_; (sporting) _the
betting_. Frère de la ----, _stockbroker’s clerk_. Play on CÔTE, which
see. La ---- G., _purloining of articles of small value by notaries’
clerks when making an inventory_. Literally, la cote j’ai.
CÔTE, _f._ (thieves’), de bœuf, _sword_. Frère de la ----, see BANDE
NOIRE. (Familiar) Etre à la ----, _to be in needy circumstances_, “hard
up.” (Sailors’) Vieux frère la ----, _old chum_, _mate_.
CÔTÉ, _m._ (theatrical), cour, _right-hand side scenes_; ---- jardin,
_left-hand side scenes_. (Familiar) Côté des caissiers, _the station of
the_ “Chemin de fer du Nord,” _at which absconding cashiers sometimes
take train_.
CÔTELARD, _m._ (popular), _melon_.
CÔTELETTE, _f._ (popular), de menuisier, de perruquier, or de vache,
_piece of Brie cheese_. (Theatrical) Avoir sa ----, _to obtain
applause_. Emporteur à la ----, see EMPORTEUR.
CÔTE-NATURE, _f._ (familiar), for côtelette au naturel, _grilled chop_.
COTERIE, _f._ (popular), chum. Eh! dis donc, la ----! _I say, old
chum!_ Coterie, _association of workmen_; _company_. Vous savez, la
p’tite ----, _you know, chums!_
CÔTES, _f. pl._ (popular), avoir les ---- en long, _to be lazy_, _to be
a_ “bummer.” Literally _to have the ribs lengthwise, which would make
one lazy at turning about_. Travailler les ---- à quelqu’un, _to thrash
one_, _to give one a_ “hiding.” See VOIE.
CÔTIER, _m._ (popular), _extra horse harnessed to an omnibus when going
up hill_; also _his driver_.
CÔTIÈRE, _f._ (gambling cheats’), _a pocket wherein spare cards are
secreted_.
Aussi se promit-il de faire agir avec plus d’adresse, plus
d’acharnement, les rois, les atouts et les as qu’il tenait
en réserve dans sa côtière.--_Mémoires de Monsieur Claude._
COTILLON, _m._ (popular), crotté, _prostitute_, “draggle-tail.”
Il était coureur ... il adorait le cotillon, et c’est pour
moi un cotillon crotté qui a causé sa perte.--=MACÉ=, _Mon
Premier Crime_.
Faire danser le ----, _to thrash one’s wife_.
COTON, _m._ (popular), _bread or food_ (allusion to the cotton-wick
of lamp); _quarrel_; _street-fight_; _difficulty_. Il y aura du ----,
_there will be a fight_; _there will be much difficulty_. Le courant
est rapide, il y aura du ----, _the stream is swift, we shall have to
pull with a will_.
COTRET, _m._ (popular), jus de ----, _thrashing with a stick_, or
“larruping;” might be rendered by “stirrup oil.” Des cotrets, _legs_.
(Thieves’) Cotret, _convict at the hulks_; _returned transport_, or
“lag.”
COTTE, _f._ (popular), _blue canvas working trousers_.
COU, _m._ (popular), avoir le front dans le ----, _to be bald, or to
have_ “a bladder of lard.” See AVOIR.
COUAC, _m._ (popular), _priest_, or “devil-dodger.”
COUCHE (popular), à quelle heure qu’on te ----? _a hint to one to make
himself scarce_.
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