Je ne donnerais pas une face de ta sorbonne si l’on tenait l’argent.--=BALZAC.= Face du Grand Turc, _the behind_. FACE! _an exclamation used when a smash of glass or crockery is heard_, the word being the French rendering for the exclamation “heads!” at pitch and toss. FACILE À LA DÉTENTE (popular), _is said of one who readily settles a debt, or opens the strings of his purse_. FACTIONNAIRE, _m._ (popular), poser un ----, _to ease oneself_. Relever un ----, _to slip out of a workshop in order to go and drink a glass of wine kept ready by a comrade at a neighbouring wine-shop_. FACTURIER, _m._ (theatrical), _one whose spécialité is to produce songs termed_ “couplets de facture,” _for the stage or music halls_. FADAGE, _m._ (thieves’), _the act of sharing the plunder_, or “cutting it up.” FADARD, _adj. and m._ (popular), _dandy_, or “gorger.” For synonyms see GOMMEUX. FADE, _m._ (popular), _a fop or empty swell_, a “dundreary;” _one’s share in the reckoning_, or “shot;” _a workman’s wages_. Toucher son ----, _to receive one’s wages_. (Thieves’) Fade, _a rogue’s share in the proceeds of a robbery_, or “whack;” _money_, or “pieces.” Puisque je ne l’ai plus, elle, pas plus que je n’ai du fade, Charlot peut aiguiser son couperet, je ne regrette plus ma tête.--_Mémoires de Monsieur Claude._ FADÉ, _adj._ (popular), _drunk_, or “screwed.” See POMPETTE. Etre bien ----, _to be quite drunk_, or “scammered;” _to have received a good share_; _to be well treated by fate_. Is used also ironically or sorrowfully: Me voilà bien ----! _a bad job for me! Here I am in a fine plight!_ (Thieves’) Etre ----, _to have received one’s share of ill-gotten gains_; _to have had one’s_ “whack.” FADER (thieves’), _to divide the booty among the participators in a robbery_, “to nap the regulars,” or “to cut up.” FADEURS, _f. pl._ (popular), des ----! _nonsense!_ “all my eye!” Concerning this English rendering the supplementary _English Glossary_ says: “All my eye, _nonsense, untrue_. Sometimes ‘All my eye and Betty Martin.’ The explanation that it was the beginning of a prayer, ‘O mihi beate Martine,’ will not hold water. Dr. Butler, when headmaster of Shrewsbury, ... told his boys that it arose from a gipsy woman in Shrewsbury named Betty Martin giving a black eye to a constable, who was chaffed by the boys accordingly. The expression must have been common in 1837, as Dickens gives one of the Brick Lane Temperance testimonials as from ‘Betty Martin, widow, one child, and one eye.’--_Pickwick_, ch. xxxiii.” FAFELARD, _m._ (thieves’), _passport_; _bank note_, or “soft;” ---- à la manque, _forged note_, or “queer soft;” ---- d’emballage, _warrant of arrest_. FAFFE, _m._ (thieves’), _paper_; ---- à roulotter, _cigarette paper_; _bank note_, or “soft.” FAFIOT, _m._ (popular and thieves’), _document_, or “fakement;” _shoe_, or “trotter case.” See RIPATON. Fafiot, _bank note_, or “soft.”