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
Fafiot! n’entendez-vous pas le bruissement du papier de
soie?--=BALZAC.=
Fafiot garaté, _banknote_, or “soft.” An allusion to the signature of
the cashier M. Garat, which notes of the Banque de France formerly
bore.
On invente les billets de banque, le bagne les appelle
des fafiots garatés, du nom de Garat, le caissier qui les
signe.--=BALZAC.=
Un ---- en bas âge, _a one hundred franc note_. Un ---- femelle, _a
five hundred franc note_. Un ---- lof, _a false begging petition;
forged certificate, or false passport_, “fakement.” Un ---- mâle, _a
one thousand franc note_.
Le billet de mille francs est un fafiot mâle, le billet de
cinq cents francs un fafiot femelle.--=BALZAC.=
Un ---- sec, _a genuine certificate or passport_. Fabriquer des
fafiots, or du fafelard à la manque, _to forge bank notes_, “to fake
queer soft.”
FAFIOTEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _paper manufacturer or merchant_; _banker_,
“rag-shop boss;” _writer_; (popular) _cobbler_, or “snob.”
FAFLARD. See FAFELARD.
FAGAUT (thieves’), the word faut disguised. Il ne ---- dégueularder sur
sa fiole, _we must say nothing about him_.
FAGOT, COTTERET, or FALOURDE, _m._ (thieves’), _convict_, probably from
his being tied up like a bundle of sticks. Un ---- à perte de vue, _one
sentenced to penal servitude for life_, or “lifer.” Un ---- affranchi,
_a liberated convict_, or “lag.” Un ---- en campe, _an escaped felon_.
(Familiar) Un ----, _a candidate for the Ecole des Eaux et Forêts, a
government training school for surveyors of State forests and canals_.
FAGOTIN, _m._ (popular), _vagrant_, _tramp_, “abraham-man,” or “piky.”
FAIBLARD, _m._ (popular), _sickly looking, weak person_. Called in
English slang “barber’s cat,” a term used in connection with an
expression too coarse to print, according to the _Slang Dictionary_.
FAIGNANT, _m._ (popular), _coward_. A corruption of fainéant, _idle
fellow_.
FAILLI CHIEN, _m._ (sailors’), _scamp_. Un ---- de terrien, _a lubberly
landsman_.
Le bateau va comme en rivière une gabarre,
Sans personne au compas, et le mousse à la barre,
Il faudrait n’être qu’un failli chien de terrien,
Pour geindre en ce moment et se plaindre de rien.
=RICHEPIN=, _La Mer_.
FAÎNE, _f._ (popular), _a sou_.
FAININ, _m._ (popular), _a centime_.
FAIRE (general), _to steal_, “to prig.” See GRINCHIR.
Non qu’ils déboursent rien pour entrer, car ils font
Leur contre-marque aux gens qui sortent....
=RICHEPIN=, _La Chanson des Gueux_.
Faire son nez, _to look crestfallen_, _to look_ “glum;” ---- son
beurre, _to benefit by_; _to make profits_.
Il m’a assuré que le général de Carpentras avait plus de
quatre millions de rente. Je gagne bien de l’argent, moi,
mais je ferais bien mon beurre avec ça.--=E. MONTEIL.=
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