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
DONNER (thieves’), _to look_; _to see_, “to pipe;” _to peach_, or “to
blow the gaff;” ---- à la Bourbonnaise, _to scowl at one_; ---- du
chasse à la rousse, _to be on the look-out_, “to nark,” or “to nose;”
---- du flan, or de la galette, _to play fairly_; ---- sur le buffeton,
_to read an indictment_; ---- un pont à faucher, _to lay a trap_;
_to prepare a snare for one_; _to deceive one_, “to kid;” ---- une
affaire, _to give the information required for the perpetration of a
robbery_. (Popular) Donner de la salade, _to give one something more
than a good shaking_, see VOIE; ---- du cambouis à quelqu’un, _to make
fun of one_; _to play a trick_; ---- du dix-huit, see DONNER CINQ ET
QUATRE; ---- du vague, _to seek for one’s living_; ---- la savate, _to
give a box on the ear_, or “buck-horse;” ---- son bout, or son bout de
ficelle, _to dismiss_; _to give the_ “sack;” (ironical) ---- des noms
d’oiseaux, _to be very loving_; ---- cinq et quatre, _to slap one with
the palm, then with the back of the hand_; ---- un coup de poing dont
on ne voit que la fumée, _to give a terrific blow in the face_, “a
thumper.” La ----, _to sing_, “to lip.” Se ---- de l’air, _to go out_.
Se la ----, _to be off_; _to run away_, “to slope,” see PATATROT; also
_to fight_, “to pitch into one another.” (Familiar) Donner la migraine
à une tête de bois, _to be an insufferable bore_; ---- son dernier bon
à tirer, _to die_; ---- de la grosse caisse, _to puff up a book or
trade article_; ---- du balai, _to dismiss_; (Saint-Cyr cadets’) ----
du vent, _to bully_.
DONNEUR, _m._, de bonjour. See BONJOUR. (Thieves’) Donneur d’affaires,
_malefactor of an inventive genius who suggests to others plans of
robberies or_ “plants.”
DONNEZ-LA! (thieves’), _look out!_ “shoe leather!” Synonymous of
“chou!” “acresto!” “du pet!”
DORANCHER (thieves’), _to gild_.
DORMIR (popular), en chien de fusil, _to double oneself up, when
sleeping, into the shape of an S_; ---- en gendarme, _to sleep with one
eye open_; _to sleep a_ “fox’s sleep.”
DORNA (Breton), _to get drunk_.
DORNER (Breton), _drunkard_.
DORT DANS L’AUGE, _m._ (popular), _lazy individual_, “lazy bones,” or
“bummer.”
DORT-EN-CHIANT (popular), _extremely lazy man, with no energy whatever,
with no heart for work_, “a bummer.”
DOS, _m._ (general), _woman’s bully_, “Sunday man;” ---- d’azur, vert,
_same meaning_. For synonymous terms see POISSON. Scier le ---- à
quelqu’un, _to importune_; “to bore” _one_.
DOSE, _f._ (popular), _unpleasant thing_.
DOSSIÈRE, _f._ (thieves’), _prostitute_, “bunter,” see GADOUE; ---- de
satte, _arm-chair_.
DOUANIER, _m._ (popular), _glass of absinthe_. An allusion to the
uniform of custom-house officers, which, like absinthe, is green.
Termed also “un perroquet.”
DOUBLAGE, DOUBLÉ, _m._ (popular), _robbery_.
DOUBLE, _m._ (military), _sergeant-major_; (popular) ---- six, _negro_.
Also _the two upper front teeth_. (Thieves’) Gras ----, _sheet lead_,
or “flap.” Termed also “saucisson.”
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