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
ENTERREMENT, _m._ (popular), _a piece of meat placed in a lump of
bread, or an apology for a sandwich_; (familiar) ---- de première
classe, _grand, but dull ceremony_. Is said also of the total failure
of a literary or dramatic production.
ENTERVER, or ENTRAVER (thieves’), _to listen_; _to hear_; _to
understand_. Que de baux la muraille enterve! _take care, the walls
have ears!_ (old)
Le rupin sortant dehors vit cet écrit, il le lut, mais il
n’entervait que floutière; il demanda au ratichon de son
village ce que cela voulait dire mais il n’entervait pas
mieux que sezière.--_Le Jargon de l’Argot._
ENTIÈRES, _f. pl._ (thieves’), _lentils_.
ENTIFFER (popular), _to enter_; (thieves’) _to wheedle_; _to adorn_.
Ah! si j’en défouraille,
Ma largue j’entiferai.
J’li f’rai porter fontange,
Et souliers galuchés.
=V. HUGO.=
ENTIFFLE, _f._ See ANTIFFLE.
ENTIFFLER (thieves’), _to wheedle_; _to walk_, or “to pad the hoof;”
_to steal_, “to nick,” or “to claim.” See GRINCHIR.
ENTONNE, _f._ (thieves’), _church_. Termed also “chique.”
ENTONNOIR, _m._ (popular), _throat_, or “peck-alley;” ---- à patte,
_drinking glass_; ---- de zinc, _a throat which is proof against the
strongest spirits_.
ENTORTILLÉ, _adj._ (popular), _clumsy_, _awkward_, _gawky_.
ENTRAVAGE, _m._ (thieves’), _hearing_; _understanding_, “twigging.”
ENTRAVER (thieves’ and cads’), _to understand_, “to twig.” J’entrave
pas dans tes vannes, _I don’t take that nonsense in_, _I am not to
be humbugged_, “do you see any green in my eye?” J’entrave pas ton
flanche, _I can’t understand what you are at_.
EN TRAVERSE, _f._ (thieves’), _at the hulks_.
ENTRECÔTE, _f._ (popular), de brodeuse, _piece of Brie cheese_.
(Thieves’) Entrecôte, _sword_.
ENTRÉE, _f._ (popular), de Portugal, _ridiculous rider_; ---- des
artistes, _anus_.
ENTREFILET, _m._ (journalists’), _short newspaper paragraph_.
ENTRELARDÉ, _m._ (popular), _a man who is neither fat nor thin_.
ENTRER (popular), aux quinze-vingts, _to fall asleep_. Les
Quinze-vingts is a government hospital for the blind; ---- dans la
confrérie de Saint-Pris, _to get married_, or “spliced;” ---- dans
l’infanterie, _to be pregnant_; ---- en tempête, _to fly into a
passion_, “to lose one’s shirt.”
ENTRIPAILLÉ, _adj._ (popular), _stout_, _with a_ “corporation” _in
front_.
ENTRIPAILLER (popular), s’----, _to grow stout_.
ENTROLER, ENTROLLER (thieves’), _to carry away_.
Il mouchailla des ornies de balle qui morfilaient du grenu
en la cour; alors il ficha de son sabre sur la tronche
à une, il l’abasourdit, la met dans son gueulard et
l’entrolle.--_Le Jargon de l’Argot._ (_He saw some turkey
cocks which were pecking at some corn in the yard; he then
cut one over the head with his sword, killed it, put it in
his wallet, and carried it off._)
ENVELOPPER (artists’), _to draw the sketch of a painting_.
ENVOYÉ, _adj._ (familiar), bien ----, _a good hit! well said!_
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