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
EMBARRAS, _m._ (thieves’), _bed sheet_. (Popular) Mettre une fille dans
l’----, _to seduce a girl, with the natural consequences_.
EMBAUMÉ, _m._ (popular), vieil ----, _old fool_; _old curmudgeon_,
“doddering old sheep’s head.”
EMBERLIFICOTEUR, _m._ (popular), _artful man, or an expert at
wheedling_, “sly blade.”
EMBISTROUILLER (popular), _to embarrass_; _to perplex_, “to flummux.”
EMBLÈME, _m._ (thieves’), _deceit_; _falsehood_, or “gag.”
EMBLÉMER (thieves’), _to deceive_, “to stick.”
EMBLÈMES, _m. pl._ (popular), des ----, _expression of disbelief_;
might be rendered by “all my eye!” See NÈFLES.
EMBOÎTER (theatrical), _to abuse_.
EMBOSSER (sailors’), s’----, _to place oneself_. Properly _to bring the
broadside to bear_.
EMBOUCANER (popular), _to stink_. Termed also “casser, plomber,
chelinguer, trouilloter.” S’----, _to feel dull, out of sorts_, “to
have the blue devils.”
EMBROUILLARDER (popular), s’----, _is said of a person in that state
of incipient intoxication that if he took more drink the effects would
become evident_. See SCULPTER.
EMBROUSSAILLÉS, _adj._ (familiar), cheveux ----, _matted hair_.
EMBUSQUÉ, _adj._ (military), _soldier who by reason of certain
functions is excused from military duties_.
EMÉCHÉ, _adj._ (familiar), _slightly intoxicated_, or “elevated.” See
POMPETTE.
EMÉCHER (familiar), s’----, _to be in a fair way of getting tipsy_. See
SCULPTER.
EMÉRILLONNER (popular), s’----, _to become quite cheerful_, or “cock a
hoop,” _through repeated potations_.
EMIGRÉ, _m._ (popular), de Gomorrhe, _Sodomite_.
EMMAILLOTER (thieves’), _to dupe_, “to best;” ---- un môme, _to prepare
a theft or other crime_. Synonymous of “engraisser un poupart.”
EMMAILLOTEUR, _m._ (popular), _tailor_, “snip,” “steel-bar driver,”
“cabbage contractor.”
EMMANCHÉ, _m._ (popular), _slow, clumsy fellow_, “stick in the mud.”
EMMARGOUILLIS, _m._ (popular), _obscene talk_, or “blue talk.”
EMMASTOQUER (popular), s’----, _to live well_; _to eat to excess_, “to
stodge.”
EMMERDEMENT, _m._ (familiar and popular), a coarse word; _great
annoyance_; _trouble_.
EMMERDER (general), a coarse word; _to annoy_; _to bore_. Also
_extremely forcible expression of contempt_. Properly _to cover with
excrement_. The English have the word “to immerd,” _to cover with dung_.
J’emmerde la cour, je respecte messieurs les jurés.
--=V. HUGO.=
EMMIELLER, EMMOUTARDER (popular), _euphemism for_ EMMERDER (which see).
EMMILLIARDER (popular), s’----, or s’emmillionner, _to become
prodigiously rich_.
EMOS, _f._ (popular), abbreviation of émotion.
EMOUVER (popular), s’----, _to shift noisily about_; _to hurry_, or “to
look alive.”
EMPAFFER (popular), _to intoxicate_. From paf, _drunk_. See SCULPTER.
EMPAFFES, _f. pl._ (thieves’), _bed-clothes_.
EMPAILLÉ, _m._ (popular), _clumsy man_; _slow man, lacking energy_,
“stick in the mud.”
EMPALER (popular), _to deceive one by false representations_, “to
bamboozle.”
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