DÉGRINGILLER (popular), _to come out_. Dégringillons de la carrée, _let us leave the room_. DÉGRINGOLADE, _f._ (thieves’), _theft in a shop_; ---- à la flûte, _robbery committed by a street-walker_. DÉGRINGOLER (thieves’), _to steal_, “to nim;” ---- à la carre, _to steal property from shops_. This kind of robbery is practised principally by women, and the thief is called a “bouncer.” DÉGROSSIR (freemasons’), _to carve_. DÉGROUPER (popular), se ----, _to separate_. DÉGUEULARDER (thieves’), _to talk_, _to say_, “to rap.” Ne dégueularde pas sur sa fiole, _say nothing about him_. DÉGUEULAS, DÉGUEULATIF, _adj._ (popular), _annoying_; _disgusting_. J’conobre l’truc; ’l est dégueulas.--=RICHEPIN.= (_I know the trade; it is disgusting._) DÉGUEULATOIRE, _adj._ (popular), _disgusting_; _repulsive_. DÉGUEULBITE, DÉGUEULBOCHE, _adj._ (popular), _disgusting_. DÉGUEULER (popular), _to sing_, or “to lip.” DÉGUEULIS, _m._ (popular), _vomit_. DÉGUIS, _m._ (thieves’), _disguise_. DÉGUISER (popular), se ---- en cerf, _to make off_, “to brush,” or “to leg it.” See PATATROT. DÉJETÉ, _adj._ (popular), _weakly_; _ugly_. N’être pas trop ----, _to be still handsome_. DÉJEÛNER, _m. and verb_ (popular), de perroquet, _biscuit dipped in wine_; (military) ---- à la fourchette, _to fight a duel_. DÉJOSÉPHIER (popular), _to educate_, not in the better sense of the word; “to put one up to snuff.” An allusion to Madame Potiphar’s attempts on Joseph’s virtue. DE LA BOURRACHE! (popular), _expressive of refusal_; might be rendered by “no go!” “you be blowed.” See NÈFLES. DÉLASS. COM. (popular), _theatre of the Délassements Comiques_. DÉLICAT ET BLOND (popular), _is said ironically of a dandy_ or “Jemmy Jessamy;” also _of an effeminate fellow who cannot bear pain or discomfort_. DÉLICOQUENTIEUSEMENT (theatrical), _marvellously_. DÉLIGE, _f._ (popular), for diligence, _public coach_. DÉMANCHER (popular), se ----, _to bestir oneself_; _to give oneself much trouble_. DÉMAQUILLER (thieves’), _to undo_. DÉMARGER (thieves’), _to go away_; _to make off_, “to crush,” “to guy.” See PATATROT. DÉMARQUER (literary), _to pirate others’ productions, or to alter one’s own so as to pass them off as original_. DÉMARQUEUR, _m._ (literary), de linge, _literary pirate_. DÉMÉNAGER (popular), _to become mad_, or “balmy;” _to die_, “to kick the bucket;” ---- à la cloche de bois, de zinc, or à la sonnette de bois, _to move one’s furniture secretly, the street door bell having been muffled so as to give no more sound than a wooden one_, “to shoot the moon;” ---- à la ficelle, _to remove one’s furniture through a window by means of a rope_; ---- par la cheminée, _to burn one’s furniture on receiving notice to quit, so as to cheat the landlord_. DEMI-AUNE, _f._ (popular), _arm_, “bender.” Tendre la ----, _to beg_. DEMI-CACHEMIRE, _f._ (familiar), _kept woman in a good position, but who has not yet reached the top of the ladder_.