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
DOUBLER (thieves’), _to steal_, “to claim,” or “to nick;” (familiar)
---- un cap, _to avoid passing before a creditor’s door_; _to be able
to settle a debt or pay a bill when it falls due_; ---- le cap du
terme, _to be able to pay one’s rent when it becomes due_, _to be able
to clear the dreaded reef of rent day_.
DOUBLEUR, DOUBLEUX, _m._, DOUBLEUSE, _f._ (thieves’), _thief_, “prig,”
see GRINCHE; ---- de sorgue, _night thief_.
DOUBLIN, _m._ (thieves’), _ten-centime piece_.
DOUBLURE, _f._ (theatrical), _actor who at a moment’s notice is able
to take the part of another_; (popular) ---- de la pièce, _breasts_,
“Charlies.”
DOUCE, _f._ (thieves’), _silk or satin stuff_, “squeeze.” (Popular) A
la ----, _gently_; _pretty well_. Comment qu’ça va aujourd’hui? mais, à
la ----, _how are you to-day? pretty bobbish_. La couler, or la passer
à la ----, _to live an easy life, devoid of cares_.
DOUCETTE, _f._ (thieves’), _a file_. An endearing term for that very
useful implement.
DOUCEUR, _f._ (thieves’), faire en ----, _to rob from the person
without any violence, with suavity, so to speak_. Le mettre en ----,
_to extort property by dint of wheedling_.
DOUILLARD, _m._ (thieves’ and popular), _wealthy man_, “rag-splawger,”
“rhinoceral,” _one_ “well-ballasted.”
DOUILLARDS, _m._ (thieves’ and popular), _hair_.
Viv’ la gaîté! J’ai pas d’chaussettes;
Mes rigadins font des risettes;
Mes tas d’douillards m’servent d’chapeau.
=RICHEPIN=, _Chanson des Gueux_.
DOUILLE, _f._ (thieves’ and popular), _money_, “pieces.” See QUIBUS.
Aboule la ----, “dub the pieces.”
DOUILLER (thieves’), _to pay_, “to dub;” ---- du carme, _to give
money_, “to dub pieces.”
DOUILLES, _f._ (thieves’), _hair_, or “thatch;” ---- savonnées, _white
hair_. Termed also “tifs, douillards, plumes.”
DOUILLET, _m._, DOUILLETTE, _f._ (thieves’), _hair_, “thatch;” _mane_.
DOUILLURE, _f._ (thieves’), _head of hair_.
DOULEUR, _f._ (popular), avaler or étrangler la ----, _to drink a glass
of brandy_, the great comforter it would appear.
DOULOUREUSE, _f._ (popular), _reckoning at an eating-house_. The term
is expressive of one’s sorrow when comes the dreaded “quart d’heure de
Rabelais.”
DOUSSE, _f._ (thieves’), _fever_.
DOUSSIN, _m._ (thieves’), _lead_, “bluey.”
DOUSSINER (thieves’), _to line with lead_.
DOUX, _m._ (popular), du ----, _some sweet liquor such as Chartreuse,
Curaçao_.
DOVERGN (Breton), _horse_.
DRAGÉE, _f._ (military), _bullet_, “plum.” Dragée, properly
_sweetmeat_. Gober une ----, _to receive a bullet_.
DRAGONS. See ALLER VOIR DÉFILER.
DRAGUE, _f. and m._ (popular), une ----, _table, implements or plant
of a conjuror, of a mountebank_. (Thieves’) Un ----, _surgeon_, “nim
gimmer.”
DRAGUEUR, _m._ (popular), _quack_, “crocus;” _conjurer_; _mountebank_.
DRAP (popular), manger du ----, _to play at billiards_, _to play_
“spoof.”
DRAPEAU, _m._ (freemasons’), _serviette_. Grand ----, _table-cloth_.
DRAPEAUX, _m._ (popular), _swaddling clothes_.
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