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
ETUDIANT DE LA GRÈVE, _m._ (popular), _mason_.
ETUDIANTE, _f._ (familiar), _student’s mistress_, _his_ “tartlet.”
ETUI, _m._ (popular), _skin_, or “buff;” ---- à lorgnette, _coffin_.
(Soldiers’) Etuis de mains courantes, _boots_.
EVANOUIR (popular), s’----, _to make off_, or “to bunk;” _to die_. See
PIPE.
EVANOUISSEMENT, _m._ (popular), _flight_.
EVAPORER (popular), _to steal adroitly_. S’----, _to vanish_, “to
mizzle.”
EVENTAIL À BOURRIQUE, _m._ (popular), _stick_, or “toco.”
EVENTRER UNE NÉGRESSE (popular), _to drink a bottle of wine_.
EVÊQUE DE CAMPAGNE, _m._ (popular), _a hanged person_. From the
expression, Bénir des pieds, _to be hanged_, and properly _to bless
with one’s feet_.
EVER GOAD HE VUGALE (Breton), _drunkard_. Literally _drinker of his
children’s blood_.
EXBALANCER (thieves’), _to send one away; to dismiss him_.
EXCELLENT BON, _m._ (familiar), _young dandy_.
EXÉCUTER (familiar), s’----, _to comply with a request_; _to fulfil
one’s promise_; _to pay unwillingly rather than otherwise_.
EXHIBER (cads’), _to look at_, “to pipe.” Nib de flanche, on t’exhibe,
_stop your game, they are looking at you_. Exhiber son prussien, _to
run away_.
EXHUMÉ, _m._ (familiar), _swell_, “masher.” An allusion to the
cadaverous appearance of most French “mashers.” See GOMMEUX.
EXPLIQUER (military and popular), s’----, _to fight a duel_; _to fight_.
Sauf el’ bandeau
Qu’a s’coll’ chaqu’ fois su’ l’coin d’la hure,
Après qu’ nous nous somm’s expliqués,
C’est pas qu’ j’aim’ y taper dans l’nez;
J’haï ça; c’est cont’ ma nature.
=GILL=, _La Muse à Bibi_.
EXTRA, _m._ (popular), _good dinner_; _guest at a military mess_.
EXTRAIT DE GARNI, _m._ (popular), _dirty servant_; _slattern_.
EXTRAVAGANT, _m._ (popular), _glass of beer of unusual size_, “galopin”
being the appellation for a small one. The latter term is quite recent
as used with the above signification. According to the _Dict. Comique_
it meant formerly _a small measure for wine_:--
Galopin, c’est une petite mesure de vin, ce qu’on appelle à
Paris un demi-setier.--=LE ROUX.=
F
F, être de l’---- (popular), that is, être fichu, flambé, foutu,
fricassé, frit, fumé, _to be lost, ruined_, “cracked up,” “gone to
smash.”
FABRICANT, _m._ (popular), de culbutes, or de fourreaux, _tailor_,
“rag-stabber.” Je me suis carmé d’une bath pelure chez le ---- de
culbutes, _I have bought a fine coat at the tailor’s_.
FABRICATION, _f._ (thieves’), passer à la ----, or être fabriqué, _to
be apprehended_. Faire passer à la ----, _to apprehend_.
FABRIQUER (thieves’), _to apprehend_, “to smug;” _to steal_, “to
claim;” ---- un gas à la flan, à la rencontre, or à la dure, _to rob
from the person with violence_, “to jump;” ---- un poivrot, _to rob a
drunkard_.
FAÇADE, _f._ (popular), _head_, or “nut;” _face_, or “mug.” (Cocottes’)
Se faire la ----, _to paint one’s face_, in other words, “to stick
slap” _on one’s face_.
FACE, _f._ (popular and thieves’), _a sou_.
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