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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 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

Name: 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
Author: Barrère, Albert

Barrère, Albert

French language -- Dictionaries -- English; French language -- Slang -- Dictionaries

COUVENT, _m._ (popular), laïque, _brothel_, or “nanny-shop.”

  Le 49 est un lupanar. Ce couvent laïque est connu dans
  le Quartier Latin sous la dénomination de: La Botte de
  Paille.--=MACÉ=, _Mon Premier Crime_.

COUVERCLE, _m._ (popular), _hat_, or “tile.” See TUBARD.

COUVERT, _m._ (thieves’), _silver fork and spoon from which the
initials have been obliterated, or which have been_ “christened.”

COUVERTE, _f._ (military), battre la ----, _to sleep_. Faire passer à
la ----, _to toss one in a blanket_.

COUVERTURE, _f._ (theatrical), _noise made purposely at a theatre to
prevent the public from noticing something wrong in the delivery of
actors_.

  Nous appelons couverture le bruit que nous faisons dans la
  salle pour couvrir un impair, un pataquès, une faute de
  français.--=P. MAHALIN.=

COUVRANTE, _f._ (popular), _cap_, or “tile.” See TUBARD.

COUVRE-AMOUR, _m._ (military), _shako_.

COUVREUR, _m._ (freemasons’), _doorkeeper_.

COUVRIR (freemasons’), le temple, _to shut the door_.

COUYON. See COUILLON.

COUYONNADE, _f._ See COUILLONNADE.

COUYONNERIE, _f._ See COUILLONNERIE.

CRABOSSER (popular), _to crush in a hat_.

CRAC. See CRIC.

CRACHER (popular), _to speak out_; ---- des pièces de dix sous, _to be
dry, thirsty_; ---- dans le sac, _to be guillotined_, _to die_; ----
ses doublures, _to be consumptive_. Ne pas ---- sur quelquechose, _not
to object to a thing_, _to value it_, “not to sneeze at.” (Musicians’)
Cracher son embouchure, _to die_. See PIPE.

CRACHOIR, _m._ (popular and thieves’), _mouth_, or “bone-box.” See
PLOMB. (General) Jouer du ----, _to speak_, “to rap,” “to patter.”
Abuser du ----, _is said of a very talkative person who engrosses all
the conversation_.

CRAMPE, _f._ (popular), tirer sa ----, _to flee_, “to crush.” See
PATATROT. Tirer sa ---- avec la veuve, _to be guillotined_.

CRAMPER (popular), se ----, _to run away_. See PATATROT.

CRAMPON, _m._ (familiar), _bore_; _one not easily got rid of_.

CRAMPONNE TOI GUGUSSE! (popular, ironical), _prepare to be astounded_.

CRAMPONNER (familiar), _to force one’s company on a person_; _to bore_.

CRAMSER (popular), _to die_.

CRAN, _m._ (popular), avoir son ----, _to be angry_. Faire un ----, _to
make a note of something_; an allusion to the custom which bakers have
of reckoning the number of loaves furnished by cutting notches in a
piece of wood. Lâcher d’un ----, _to leave one suddenly_.

CRÂNE, _adj._ (popular), _fine_.

CRÂNEMENT (popular), _superlatively_. Je suis ---- content, _I am
superlatively happy_.

CRÂNER (popular), _to be impudent, threatening_. Si tu crânes, je te
ramasse, _none of your cheek, else I’ll give you a thrashing_.

CRAPAUD, _m._ (thieves’), _padlock_; (military) _diminutive man_;
_purse in which soldiers store up their savings_; ---- serpenteux,
_spiral rocket_. (Popular) Crapaud, _child_, “kid.”

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