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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ESTOURBISSEUR, _m._ (popular), de clous de girofle, _dentist_.
ESTRADE, _f._ (thieves’), _boulevard_.
Le filant sur l’estrade
D’esbrouf je l’estourbis.
=VIDOCQ.=
ESTRANGOUILLADE, _f._ (popular), _the act of strangling or garrotting a
man_.
ESTRANGOUILLER (popular), _to strangle_; ---- un litre, _to drink a
litre of wine_.
ESTROPIER (popular), _to eat_, “to grub.” Properly _to maim_.
ESTUQUE, _m._ (thieves’), _share of booty_, or “regulars.”
ESTUQUER (popular), _to thrash_, “to wallop.”
ETAGÈRE, _f._ (general), _female assistant at restaurants who has the
charge of the fruit, &c._; _bosom_.
ETAL, _m._ (popular), _bosom_.
ETALAGE, _m._ (general), vol à l’----, _shoplifting_.
ETALER (familiar), sa marchandise, _to wear a very low dress, thus
showing what ought to remain covered_.
ETAMÉ, _adj._ (thieves’), _old offender_. Boule de son ----, _white
bread_.
ETANCHE, _f._ (popular), avoir le goulot en ----, _to be thirsty, or
dry_.
ETEIGNOIR, _m._ (general), _large nose, or large_ “conk;” _dull
person_. Ordre de l’----, _the order of Jesuits_. (Thieves’) Eteignoir,
_préfecture de police, palais de justice, or law courts_.
ETEINDRE (popular), son gaz, _to die_, “to snuff it.”
ETERNUER (popular), sur une négresse, _to drink a bottle of wine_;
(thieves’) ---- dans le sac, or dans le son, _to be guillotined_.
Pauvre petit Théodore ... il est bien gentil. C’est dommage
d’éternuer dans le son à son âge.--=BALZAC.=
ETIER, _m._, _a kind of trench dug by the salt-marsh workers_.
ET LE POUCE, ET MÈCHE (popular), _and the rest!_ Cette dame a quarante
ans. Oui, et le pouce! _This lady is forty years of age. Yes, and the
rest!_
ETOFFES, _f. pl._ (thieves’), _money_, “pieces.”
ETOUFFAGE, _m._ (thieves’), _theft_, or “push;” (popular), _concealment
of money on one’s person_; _stealing part of the stakes by a player or
looker-on_.
ETOUFFE, _m._ (thieves’), _clandestine gaming-house_.
ETOUFFER (popular), _to secrete money about one’s person_; ---- un
enfant de chœur, une négresse, _to drink a bottle of wine_; ---- un
perroquet, _to drink a glass of absinthe_.
ETOUFFOIR, _m._ See ETOUFFE.
ETOURDIR (popular), _to solicit_; _to entreat_. Properly _to make
giddy_.
ETOURDISSEMENT, _m._ (popular), _soliciting a service_.
ETOURDISSEUR, _m._ (popular), _one who solicits, who asks for a
service_.
ETRANGÈRE, _f._ (familiar), piquer l’----, _to allow one’s thoughts to
wander from a subject_, “to be wool gathering.” Noble ----, _silver
five-franc piece_.
ETRANGLER (familiar), un perroquet, _to drink a glass of absinthe_;
---- une dette, _to pay off a debt_.
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