FARCE, _f._ (general), en avoir la ----, _to be able to procure_. Pour deux sous on en a la ----, _an expenditure of one penny will procure it for you_. Une ---- de fumiste, _a practical joke_. Veut-on savoir d’où vient l’origine de cette locution: une farce de fumiste? Elle provient de la manière d’opérer d’une bande de voleurs fumistes de profession, ... ils montaient dans les cheminées pour dévaliser les appartements déserts et en faire sortir les objets les plus précieux par les toits.--_Mémoires de Monsieur Claude._ FARCEUR, _m._ (artists’), _human skeleton serving as a model at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, or the Paris Art School_, thus called on account of its being put to use for practical joking at the expense of newcomers. FARCHER (thieves’), for faucher dans le pont, _to fall into a trap; to allow oneself to be duped, or_ “bested.” FARD, _m._ (popular), _falsehood_, or “swack up.” Sans ----, _without humbug_, “all square.” Avoir un coup de ----, _to be slightly intoxicated_, or “elevated.” See POMPETTE. (Familiar and popular) Piquer un ----, _to redden_, _to blush_. Fard, properly _rouge_. Termed “to blow” at Winchester School. FARDACH (Breton), _worthless people_. FARDER (popular), se ----, _to get tipsy_, “to get screwed.” For synonyms see SCULPTER. FARE, _f._, _heap of salt in salt-marshes_. FARFADET, _m._ (popular and thieves’), _horse_, or “prad.” FAR-FAR, FARRE (popular and thieves’), _quickly_, _in a_ “brace of shakes.” FARFOUILLER (popular), le ---- dans le tympan, _to whisper in one’s ear_. FARGUE, _m._ (thieves’), _load_. FARGUEMENT, _m._ (thieves’), _loading_; _deposition of a witness for the prosecution_. FARGUER (thieves’), _to load_. Si vous êtes fargués de marchandises grinchies (si vous êtes chargés de marchandises volées).--=VIDOCQ.= FARGUER À LA DURE, _to pounce upon a person and rob him_, “to jump” _him_. Il fagaut farguer à la dure le gonsarès pour lui dégringolarer son bobinarès, _we must attack the fellow to ease him of his watch_. FARGUEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _man who loads_; _witness for the prosecution_. FARIDOLE, _f._ (prostitutes’), _female companion_. FARIDON, _f._ (popular), _poverty_. Etre à la ----, _to be penniless_, or a “quisby.” FARINEUX, _adj._ (popular), _excellent_, _first class_, “tip top, out and out, clipping, slap up, real jam, true marmalade, nap.” FARNANDEL, for FANANDEL (which see). FARRAGO, _m._ (literary), _manuscript with many alterations and corrections_. FASSOLETTE, _f._ (thieves’), _handkerchief_, “stook,” or “madam.” FATIGUE, _f._ (thieves’), _certain amount of labour which convicts have to do at the penal servitude settlement_. FAUBERT, _m._ (marines’), _epaulet_. Properly _a mop_. FAUBOURG, _m._ (popular), le ---- souffrant, _the Faubourg Saint Marceau_, one of the poorer districts of Paris. Détruire le ---- à quelqu’un, _to give one a kick in the breech_, “to root,” “to hoof one’s bum,” or “to land a kick.”