EMPAOUTER (popular), _to annoy_; _to bore_, “to spur.” EMPAUMÉ, _adj._ (popular), c’est ----, _it’s done_. EMPAUMER (popular and thieves’), _to apprehend_, “to smug.” See PIPER. EMPAVE, _f._ (thieves’), _crossway_. EMPÊCHEUR (familiar), de danser en rond, _dismal man, who plays the dog in the manger_, “mar-joy.” EMPEREUR, _m._ (popular), _worn-out old shoe_. EMPIERGEONNER (popular), s’----, _to get entangled_. Margot dans sa cotte et ses bas S’empiergeonna là-bas, là-bas. =RICHEPIN=, _Chanson des Gueux_. EMPIFFRAGE, _m._, EMPIFFRERIE, _f._ (popular), _gluttony_, “stodging.” EMPILAGE, _m._, or EMPIL (popular), _cheating_. EMPILER (popular), _to cheat at a game_. EMPIOLER (thieves’), _to lock up_, “to give the clinch.” EMPLANQUER (thieves’), _to come up_; _to turn up_, “to crop up.” EMPLÂTRE, _m._ (card-sharpers’), de Thapsia, _shirt front and collar_. (Popular) Faire un ----, _to arrange one’s cards ready for playing_. (Thieves’) Emplâtre, _wax imprint taken for housebreaking purposes_. EMPLÂTRER (popular), _to thrash_, “to wallop.” Si tu crânes, je vais t’emplâtrer, _none of your cheek, else I’ll give you a beating_. See VOIE. S’----, _to encumber oneself_. EMPLOYÉ, _adj._ (military), dans les eaux grasses, _clerk of the victualling department_, “mucker.” EMPLÛCHER (thieves’), _to pillage_. EMPOIGNADE, _f._ (popular), _dispute_, “row.” EMPOIGNER (literary), _to criticise vigorously_; (theatrical) _to hiss_, “to give the big bird.” EMPOISONNEUR, _m._ (popular), _the landlord of wine-shop_. Termed also “mastroquet, troquet, bistrot.” EMPOIVRER (popular), s’----, _to get drunk_, “to get screwed.” See SCULPTER. EMPORTER (thieves’), _to swindle_, “to stick;” (popular) ---- le chat, _to meddle with what does not concern one, and to get abused or thrashed for one’s pains_. To act as Monsieur Robert in Molière’s _Le Médecin malgré Lui_, when he upbraids Sganarelle for beating his spouse, and in return gets thrashed by both husband and wife. EMPORTEUR, _m._, _swindler who gets into conversation with a stranger, gains his confidence, and takes him to a café where two confederates_, “le bachotteur” _and_ “la bête,” _await him_ (see BACHOTTEUR); ---- à la côtelette, _card-sharper who operates at restaurants_. EMPOSEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _Sodomite_. EMPOTÉ, _m._ (familiar), _slow, clumsy man_, “stick in the mud.” EMPOUSTEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _swindler who sells spurious goods to tradesmen under false pretences_. EMPRUNTER (popular), un pain sur la fournée, _to beget a child before marriage_; ---- un qui vaut dix, _to conceal one’s baldness by brushing the hair forward_. EMU, _adj._ (popular), _slightly intoxicated_, “elevated.” See POMPETTE. EN (popular), avoir plein ses bottes, _to be tired, sick of a person or thing_. ENBOHÉMER (familiar), s’----, _to get into low society_. ENBONNETDECOTONNER, s’----, _to become commonplace in manner or way of thinking_.