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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DÉBINAGE, _m._ (familiar), _slandering_; _running down_. From débiner,
_to talk ill_, _to depreciate_.
DÉBINER (popular), _to depreciate_; ---- le truc, _to disclose a
secret_; _to explode a dodge, or fraud_.
Parbleu! je n’ignore pas ce que peuvent dire les blagueurs
pour débiner le truc de ces fausses paysannes.--=RICHEPIN=,
_Le Pavé_.
Se ---- des fumerons, _to run away_, “to leg it.” Se ----, _to abuse
one another_, “to slang one another;” _to run away_, “to brush,” see
PATATROT; _to grow weak_.
DÉBINEUR, _m._, DÉBINEUSE, _f._ (popular), _one who talks ill of
people_; _one who depreciates people or things_.
DÉBLAYER (theatrical), _to curtail portions of a part_; _to hurry
through a performance_.
A l’Opéra, ce soir ... on déblaye à bras raccourci: vous
savez que déblayer signifie écourter.--=P. MAHALIN.=
DÉBLOQUER (military), _to cancel an order of arrest_.
DÉBONDER (popular), _to ease oneself_; _to go to_ “West Central,” _or
to the_ “crapping ken.” See MOUSCAILLER.
DÉBORDER (popular), _to vomit_, “to cast up accounts,” or “to shoot the
cat.”
DÉBOUCLER (thieves’), _to open_; _to set a prisoner at liberty_.
DÉBOUCLEUR, _m._ (thieves’), de lourdes, _a housebreaker_, “buster,” or
“screwsman.”
DÉBOULER (popular), _to be brought to childbed_, “to be in the straw;”
_to arrive_, or “to crop up.”
DÉBOULONNÉ (popular), être ----, _to be dull-witted, or to be a_
“dead-alive.”
DÉBOULONNER (popular), la colonne à quelqu’un, _to thrash one soundly_,
“to knock one into a cocked hat.” See VOIE.
DÉBOURRÉ (horse-dealers’), cheval ----, _horse which suddenly loses its
fleshy appearance artificially imparted by rascally horse-dealers_.
DÉBOURRER (popular), _to educate one_, “to put one up to;” ----
sa pipe, _to ease oneself_, or “to go to the chapel of ease.” See
MOUSCAILLER. Se ----, _to become knowing_, “up to a dodge or two,” or a
“leary bloke.”
DÉBOUSCAILLER (popular), _to black one’s boots_.
DÉBOUSCAILLEUR (popular), _shoeblack_.
DÉBRIDER (thieves’), _to open_; ---- les chasses, _to open one’s eyes_;
(popular) ---- la margoulette, _to eat_, “to grub.” See MASTIQUER.
DÉBRIDOIR, _m._ (thieves’), _key_; _skeleton key_, “screw,” or “twirl.”
DÉBROUILLARD, _m._ (popular), _one who has a mind fertile in resource,
in contrivances to get on in the world, or to extricate himself out of
difficulties_, a “rum mizzler.” Also used as an adjective. Literally
_one who gets out of the fog_.
DÉBROUILLER (theatrical), un rôle, _to make oneself thoroughly
acquainted with the nature of one’s part before learning it, to realize
fully the character one has to impersonate_.
DÉCADENER (thieves’), _to unchain_.
DÉCALITRE, _m._ (popular), _top hat_, “stove-pipe.” See TUBARD.
DÉCAMPILLER (popular), _to decamp_, “to bunk.”
DÉCANAILLER (popular), se ----, _to rise from a state of abjection and
poverty._
DÉCANILLAGE, _m._ (popular), _departure_; _moving one’s furniture_;
---- à la manque, _moving after midsummer term_.
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