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
DARIOLE, _f._ (popular), _slap or blow in the face_, “clout,” “bang,”
or “wipe.” Properly _a kind of pastry_.
DARIOLEUR, _m._ (popular), _inferior sort of pastry cook_.
DARON, _m._ (thieves’), _father_, “dade,” or “dadi;” _gentleman_, “nib
cove;” ---- de la raille, or de la rousse, _prefect of police, head of
the Paris police_.
DARONNE, _f._ (thieves’), _mother_; ---- du dardant, _Venus_; ---- du
grand Aure, _holy Virgin_; ---- du mec des mecs, _mother of God_.
DATTES, _f. pl._ (popular), des ----! _contemptuous expression of
refusal_; might be rendered by “you be hanged!” See NÈFLES.
Elle se r’tourne, lui dit: des dattes!
Tu peux t’fouiller vieux pruneau!
Tu n’tiens plus sur tes deux pattes.
Va donc, eh! fourneau!
_Parisian Song._
DAUBE, _f._ (popular), _cook_, or “dripping.”
DAUBEUR, _m._ (popular), _blacksmith_.
DAUCHE (popular), mon ----, _my father_; ma ----, _my mother_; “my old
man, my old woman.”
DAUFFE, _f._, DAUFFIN, DAUPHIN, _m._ (thieves’), _short crowbar_.
Termed also “l’enfant, Jacques, biribi, sucre de pommes, rigolo,” and
in the language of English housebreakers, that is, the “busters and
screwsmen,” “the stick, James, Jemmy.”
DAUPHIN, _m._ (popular), _girl’s bully_, “ponce,” see POISSON;
(thieves’) _short crowbar used by housebreakers_, “jemmy.”
DAVID, _m._ (popular), _silk cap_. From the maker’s name.
DAVONE, _f._ (thieves’), _plum_.
DE (familiar), se pousser du ----, _to place the word “de” before one’s
name to make it appear a nobleman’s_.
DÉ, _m._ (popular), or ---- à boire, _drinking glass_. Dé! _yes_.
Properly _thimble_.
DÉBÂCLE, _f._ (thieves’), _accouchement_. Properly _breaking up_,
_collapse_.
DÉBÂCLER (thieves’ and popular), _to open_; _to force open_; ---- la
lourde, _open the door_.
DÉBÂCLEUSE, _f._ (thieves’ and popular), _midwife_. Termed also
“tâte-minette, Madame Tire-monde.”
DÉBAGOULER (popular), _to speak_, “to jaw.”
DÉBALINCHARD, _m._ (popular), _one who saunters lazily about_.
DÉBALLAGE, _m._ (popular), _undress_; _getting out of bed_; _dirty
linen_. Etre floué or volé au ----, _to be grievously disappointed with
a woman’s figure when she divests herself of her garments_. Gagner au
----, _to appear to better advantage when undressed_.
DÉBALLER (popular), _to strip_. Se ----, _to undress oneself_.
DÉBANQUER (gamesters’), _to ruin the gaming bank_.
DÉBARBOUILLER (popular), à la potasse, _to strike one in the face_, “to
give one a bang in the mug;” _to clear up some matter_.
DÉBARDEUR, _m._, DÉBARDEUSE, _f._ (familiar), _dancers at fancy balls
dressed as a_ débardeur _or lumper_.
DÉBARQUER (popular), se ----, _to give up_; _to relinquish anything
already undertaken_, to “cave in.”
DÉBAUCHER (popular), _to dismiss_. Etre débauché, _to get the sack_.
The reverse of embaucher, _to engage_.
DÉBECQUETER (popular), _to vomit_, “to cast up accounts,” “to shoot the
cat.”
DÉBECTANT (popular), _annoying_; _tiresome_; _dirty_; _disgusting_.
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