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
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Ben, moi, c’t’existence-là m’assomme!
J’voudrais posséder un chapeau.
L’est vraiment temps d’dev’nir un homme.
J’en ai plein l’dos d’être un crapaud.
=RICHEPIN=, _Chanson des Gueux_.
CRAPOUSSIN, _m._ (popular), _small man_; _child_, or “kid.”
CRAPULOS, CRAPULADOS, _m._ (familiar and popular), _one-sou cigar_.
CRAQUELIN, _m._ (popular), _liar_. From craque, _fib_.
CRASSE, _f._ (familiar), _mean or stingy action_. Baron de la ----, see
BARON.
CRAVACHE, _f._ (sporting), être à la ----, _to be at a whip’s distance_.
CRAVATE, _f._ (popular), de chanvre, _noose_, or “hempen cravat;”
---- de couleur, _rainbow_; ---- verte, _women’s bully_, “ponce.” See
POISSON.
CRAYON, _m._, _stockbroker’s clerk_. The allusion is obvious.
CRÉATURE, _f._ (familiar), _strumpet_.
CRÈCHE, _f._ (cads’), faire une tournée à la ----, or à la chapelle,
_is said of a meeting of Sodomists_.
CREDO, _m._ (thieves’), _the gallows_.
CRÊPAGE, _m._ (popular), _a fight_; _a tussle_. Un ---- de chignons,
_tussle between two females_, in which they seize one another by the
hair and freely use their nails.
CRÊPER (popular), le chignon, or le toupet, _to thrash_, “to wallop.”
See VOIE. Se ---- le chignon, le toupet, _to have a set to_.
CRÉPIN, _m._ (popular), _shoemaker_, or “snob.”
CRÉPINE, _f._ (thieves’), _purse_, “skin,” or “poge.”
CRÈS (thieves’), _quickly_.
CRESPINIÈRE (old cant), _much_.
CREUSE, _f._ (popular), _throat_, “gutter lane.”
CREUX, _m._ (thieves’), _house_; _lodgings_, “diggings,” “ken,” or
“crib.” (Popular) Bon ----, _good voice_. Fichu ----, _weak voice_.
CREVAISON, _f._ (popular), _death_. Faire sa ----, _to die_. Crever,
_to die_, is said of animals. See PIPE.
CREVANT, _adj._ (swells’), _boring to death_; _very amusing_.
Que si vous les interrogez sur le bal de la nuit, ils
vous répondront invariablement, C’était crevant, parole
d’honneur.--=MAHALIN.=
CREVARD (popular), _stillborn child_.
CREVÉ (popular), _dead_. (Familiar) Petit ----, _swell_, or “masher.”
See GOMMEUX.
CRÈVE-FAIM, _m._ (popular), _man who volunteers as a soldier_.
CREVER (popular), _to dismiss from one’s employment_; _to wound_; _to
kill_; ---- la sorbonne, _to break one’s head_.
Mais c’ qu’est triste, hélas!
C’est qu’ pour crever à coups d’botte
Des gens pas palas.
On vous envoie en péniche
A Cayenne-les-eaux.
=RICHEPIN=, _Chanson des Gueux_.
Crever la pièce de dix sous _is said of the practices of Sodomists_;
---- la paillasse, _to kill_.
Verger, il creva la paillasse
A Monseigneur l’Archevêque de Paris.
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