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
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ENGUEULEMENT, _m._ (popular), _abuse in any but choice language_. Also
_insults by an abusive and scurrilous journalist who runs down public
or literary men in expressions strongly savouring of the gutter_. Fair
specimens of this coarse kind of pen warfare may be found daily in at
least one notorious Radical print, which would be thought very tame
by its habitual readers if it had not a ready stock of abuse at its
disposal, the most ordinary being voleur, bandit, maquereau, scélérat,
porc, traître, vendu, ventru, ventripotent, jouisseur, idiot, crétin,
gâteux, &c., &c.
ENGUIRLANDER (popular), _to circumvent_.
ENLEVÉ, _adj._ (familiar), _spirited_. Un article ----, un discours
----, _spirited article or speech_.
ENLEVER (theatrical), _to play with spirit_; (general) ---- le ballon
à quelqu’un, _to kick one_, “to root,” or “to land a kick.” (Thieves’)
S’----, _to be famished_.
ENLEVEUR (theatrical), _actor who plays in dashing, spirited style_.
ENLUMINER (popular), s’----, _to be in the first stage of
intoxication_, or “elevated.” See SCULPTER.
ENLUMINURE, _f._ (popular), _state of slight intoxication_. See
POMPETTE.
ENNUYER (popular), s’----, _to be on the point of death_.
ENPLAQUE, _f._ (thieves’), _police_, “the reelers.”
ENQUILLER (thieves’), _to conceal_; ---- une thune de camelotte, _to
secrete a piece of cloth under one’s dress, or between one’s thighs_.
Also _to enter_, “to prat.”
J’enquille dans sa cambriole
Espérant de l’entifler.
=VIDOCQ.=
ENQUILLEUSE, _f._, _female thief who conceals stolen property under her
apron or between her legs_. From quille, _leg_.
ENQUIQUINER (popular), _to annoy_, “to spur.” Is also expressive of
scornful feelings. Je vous enquiquine! _a hang for you!_ S’----, _to
feel dull_.
ENRAYER (popular), _to renounce love and its pleasures_.
ENRHUMER (popular), _to annoy one_, _to bore one_, “to spur.” Termed
also “courir quelqu’un.”
ENROSSER (horse-dealers’), _to conceal the faults of a horse_.
(Popular) S’----, _to get lazy_, or “Mondayish.”
ENSECRÉTER (showmens’), _to make a puppet ready for the show by
dressing it up, &c._
ENSEIGNE DE CIMETIÈRE, _f._ (thieves’), _priest_, or “devil dodger.”
ENSEMBLE, _m._ (artists’), un modèle qui pose l’----, _a model who sits
for the whole figure, that is, who poses nude_.
ENTABLEMENT, _m._ (popular), _shoulders_.
ENTAILLER (thieves’), _to kill one_, “to give one his gruel.” See
REFROIDIR.
ENTAME, _f._ (popular), à toi l’----! _you make the first move!_
ENTAMER (thieves’), _to make one speak_; _to worm out one’s secrets_.
Si le roué veut entamer tézigue, nib du truc, _if the magistrate tries
to pump you, hold your tongue_.
ENTAULER (thieves’), _to enter_, “to prat.”
ENTENDRE (popular), de corne, _to mistake a word for another_. N’----
que du vent, _not to be able to make head or tail of what one hears_.
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