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
DÉFIGER (popular), _to warm_. From de and figer, _to coagulate_.
DÉFILER (popular), aller voir ---- les dragons, _to go without a
dinner_. See ALLER. (Military) Défiler la parade, _to die_, “to lose
the number of one’s mess.” See PIPE. (Popular) Se ----, _to run away_,
“to leg it.” See PATATROT.
DÉFLEURIR (thieves’), la picouse, _to steal linen hung out to dry_, “to
smug snowy.”
DÉFORMER (popular), _to break_; _to put out of gear_. Je lui ai déformé
une quille, _I broke one of his legs_.
DÉFOUQUE. See DESFOUX.
DÉFOURAILLER (thieves’), _to run_, “to pad the hoof,” or “to guy;” see
PATATROT; _to fall_; _to be released from jail_.
DÉFRIMOUSSER (popular), synonymous with dévisager, _to peer into one’s
face_.
DÉFRUSQUER, DÉFRUSQUINER (popular), _to strip one of his clothes_. Se
----, _to undress_.
DÉGAUCHIR (thieves’), _to steal_, “to nim,” “to claim.” See GRINCHIR.
DÉGAZONNER (familiar), se ----, _to become bald_. Il a le coco tout
dégazonné, _he is quite bald_. See AVOIR.
DÉGEL, _m._ (popular), _death_.
DÉGELÉ (popular), _corpse_, “cold meat.”
DÉGELÉE, _f._ (popular), _thrashing_, “walloping.”
DÉGELER (popular), se ----, _to die_, “to kick the bucket;” see PIPE;
_to become knowing_. (Fencing) Dégeler son jeu, _to put spirit into
one’s play_.
DÉGLINGUER (popular), _to damage_.
DÉGOBILLADE, _f._ (popular), _vomit_; _very bad liquor_, “swizzle.”
DÉGOMMADE, _f._ (popular), _old age_; _decrepit state_.
DÉGOMMAGE, _m._ (popular), _dismissal_, “the sack;” _ruin_.
DÉGOMMER (popular), quelqu’un, _to excel over one_. Literally _to
dismiss one from a situation_; _to kill_. Se ----, _to grow old, faded_.
Je me rouille, je me dégomme.
=LABICHE.=
DÉGORGER (popular), _to pay_, “to fork out.”
DÉGOTTAGE, _m._ (popular), _action of surpassing one; of finding or
discovering something_.
DÉGOTTER (military), _to kill_; (popular) _to surpass one_; _to find_;
_to discover_.
Tiens! quoi donc que j’dégott’ dans l’noir,
Qu’est à g’noux, là-bas su’ l’trottoir?
Eh! ben, là-bas, eh! la gonzesse.
=GILL=, _La Muse à Bibi_.
DÉGOULER (popular), _to take away_; _to fall_, “to come a cropper.”
DÉGOULINAGE, _m._ (popular), _inferior drink_, “swizzle.”
DÉGOULINER (popular), _to drip_; ---- ce qu’on a sur le cœur, _to
unbosom_.
DÉGOURDI, _m._ (popular), ironical, _clumsy fellow_, “stick in the
mud.” Properly it has the opposite meaning.
DÉGOÛTATION, _f._ (popular), _expression of disgust_. Une ---- d’homme,
_a disgusting fellow_. The expression is a favourite one of the
street-walking tribe.
DÉGOÛTÉ, _adj._ (popular), ironical. N’être pas ----, _is said of one
who expresses a desire of obtaining something considered by others to
be too good for him; also of one who picks out for himself the most
dainty bits_.
DÉGRAISSER (popular), _to steal_, “to prig,” see GRINCHIR; ----
quelqu’un, to _fleece one_. Se ----, _to grow thin_.
DÉGRIMONER (popular), se ----, _to bestir oneself_; _to struggle_; _to
wriggle_.
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