DÉVIDAGE, _m._ (thieves’), _long speech, or yarn_; _walk in prison yard_; ---- à l’estorgue, _lie_, “gag;” _accusation_. Faire des dévidages, _to make revelations_. DÉVIDER (thieves’), _to talk_, “to patter;” ---- à l’estorgue, _to lie_; ---- le jars, _to speak the cant of thieves_, “to patter flash;” ---- une retentissante, _to break a bell_; (popular) ---- son peloton, _to talk a great deal_; _to make a confession_. DÉVIDEUR, _m._, DÉVIDEUSE, _f._ (thieves’), _chatterer_, “clack-box.” DÉVIERGER (popular), _to seduce a maiden_. DÉVIRER (thieves’ and cads’), _to turn round_. DÉVISSER (popular), le coco, _to strangle_; ---- le trognon à quelqu’un, _to wring a person’s neck_. Se ----, _to go away_. Se ---- la pétronille, _to break one’s head_. DÉVISSEUR, _m._ (popular), _slanderer_, _backbiter_. DEVOIR (gay girls’), une dette, _to have promised a rendez-vous_. DÉVOYÉ, _adj._ (thieves’), _acquitted_. DIABLE, _m._ (thieves’), _instigator in the employ of the police_. DIAMANT, _m._ (theatrical), _voice of a fine quality_, “like a bell;” (popular) _paving stone_. DIBOLATA, DIBUNI (Breton cant), _to fight_, _to thrash_. DICTIONNAIRE VERDIER, _m._ (printers’), _imaginary dictionary of which the name is shouted loud whenever one speaks or spells incorrectly_. DIEU (popular), le ---- terme, _rent day_. Il n’y a pas de bon ----, see BON. DIFFICULTÉ, _f._ (sporting), être en ----, _is said of a horse which can just keep the start obtained at the cost of the greatest efforts_. DIFOARA (Breton cant), _to pay_. DIG-DIG, or DIGUE-DIGUE, _m._ (thieves’), _epileptic fit_. Batteur de ----, _vagabond who pretends to be seized with a fit_. DIGONNEUR, _m._ (popular), _ill-tempered man_, _a_ “shirty” _one_. DIJONNIER (popular), _mustard-pot_. The best mustard is manufactured at Dijon. DILIGENCE, _f._ (popular), de Rome, _tongue_, or “velvet.” DIMANCHE (popular), or ---- après la grand’ messe, _never, at Doomsday, or when the devil is blind_. DINDONNER (popular), _to deceive_; _to impose upon_, “to bamboozle.” From dindon, _a dupe_, _a fool_. DINDORNIER, _m._ (thieves’), _hospital attendant_. DÎNER (popular), en ville, _to dine off a small roll in the street_. A philosophical way of putting it. DINGUER (theatrical), _to be out of the perpendicular_; (popular) _to walk_, _to lounge_. Envoyer ----, _to send to the deuce_. DISCUSSION, _f._ (popular), avoir une ---- avec le pavé, _to fall flat_, “to come a cropper.” DISQUE, _m._ (popular), _breech_, or “tochas,” see VASISTAS; also _coin_. DISTINGUÉ, _m._ (popular), _glass of beer_. DIX-HUIT (popular), _shoe made up of different parts of old ones_. A play on the words “deux fois neuf,” _twice new_, or _eighteen_. DIXIÈME, _m._ (military), passer au ---- régiment, _to die_. See PIPE. A play on the word “décimer,” _to kill one in ten_. DOCHE, _f._ (thieves’), _mother_. Boîte à ----, _coffin_.