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
(Thieves’) Coup à l’esbrouffe sur un pantre. See FAIRE. Un ----
d’acré, _extreme unction_. Le ---- d’Anatole, or du père François.
See CHARRIAGE À LA MÉCANIQUE. Un ---- de bas, _treacherous blow_.
Le ---- de bonnet, _the three-card trick dodge_. Coup de cachet,
_stabbing, then drawing the knife to and fro in the wound_. Un ----
de casserole, _informing against one_, “blowing the gaff.” Le ----
de manche, _calling at people’s houses in order to beg_. Un ---- de
radin, _purloining the contents of a shop-till, generally a wine-shop_,
“lob-sneaking.” Un ---- de roulotte, _robbery of luggage or other
property from vehicles_. Un ---- de vague, _a robbery_; _action of
robbing at random without any certainty as to the profits to be gained
thereby_. (Military) Coup de manchette, _certain dexterous cut of the
sword on the wrist which puts one hors de combat_. (Familiar) Un ----
de pied, _borrowing money_, or “breaking shins.” English thieves call
it “biting the ear.” Un ---- de pistolet, _some noisy or scandalous
proceeding calculated to attract attention_. Le ---- de fion,
_finishing touch_. Se donner un ---- de fion, _to get oneself tidy,
ship-shape_.
C’est là qu’on se donne le coup de fion. On ressangle
les chevaux, on arrange les paquetages et les turbans,
on époussette ses bottes, on retrousse ses moustaches et
on drape majestueusement les plis de son burnous.
--=H. FRANCE=, _L’Homme qui tue_.
(Servants’) Le ---- du tablier, _giving notice_.
COUPAILLON, _m._ (tailors’), _unskilful cutter_.
COUP DE TRAVERSIN, _m._ (popular), se foutre un ----, _to sleep_.
Trois heures qui sonn’nt. Faut que j’rapplique,
S’rait pas trop tôt que j’pionce un brin;
C’que j’vas m’fout’un coup d’traversin!
Bonsoir.
=GILL=, _La Muse à Bibi_.
COUP DE TROTTINET, _m._ (thieves’ and cads’), _kick_. Filer un ----
dans l’oignon, _to kick one’s behind_, or “to toe one’s bum,” “to
root,” or “to land a kick.”
COUPE, _f._ (thieves’), _poverty_. (Popular) Tirer sa ----, _to swim_.
COUPÉ, _adj._ (printers’), _to be without money_.
COUPE-FICELLE, _m._ (military), _artillery artificer_.
COUPE-FILE, _m._, _card delivered to functionaries, which enables them
to cross a procession in a crowd_.
COUPE-LARD, _m._ (popular), _knife_.
COUPER (popular), _to fall into a snare_; _to accept as correct an
assertion which is not so_; _to believe the statement of more or less
likely facts_; ---- dans le pont, or ---- dans le ceinturon, _to
swallow a fib, to fall into a snare_.
Vidocq dit comme ça qu’il vient du pré, qu’il voudrait
trouver des amis pour goupiner. Les autres coupent dans le
pont (donnent dans le panneau).--=VIDOCQ.=
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