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
FILLE, _f._ (familiar and popular), de maison, or ---- de tourneur,
_prostitute in a brothel_; _harlot_; ---- en carte, _street-walker
whose name is in the police books as a registered prostitute_. See
GADOUE. Grande ----, _bottle of wine_. (Familiar) Fille de marbre, _a
cold-hearted courtesan_; ---- de plâtre, _harlot_, “mot.” For list of
over 140 synonyms see GADOUE.
FILLETTE, _f._ (popular), _half a bottle of wine_.
FILOCHE, _f._ (thieves’), _purse_, “skin,” or “poge.” Avoir sa ---- à
jeun, _to be penniless_, “hard up.”
FILOU, _adj._ (popular), _wily_, “up to a dodge or two.”
FILSANGE, _f._ (thieves’), _floss silk_.
FIN, _f._ (thieves’), de la soupe, _guillotine_. See VOYANTE.
(Familiar) Faire une ----, _to get married_, “spliced,” or “hitched”
(Americanism).
FINE, _f. and adj._ (popular), _excrement_, or “quaker,” abbreviation
of “fine moutarde;” (familiar) abbreviation of “fine champagne,” _best
quality of brandy_. (Thieves’) Etre en ---- pégrène, _to be in great
danger_; _to be in an_ “awful fix.”
La raille (la police) est là.... Je joue la mislocq (la
comédie) pour un fanandel en fine pégrène (un camarade à
toute extrémité).--=BALZAC.=
FINETTE, _f._ (card-sharpers’), _a pocket wherein are secreted certain
cards_.
Il a sous son habit, au dos de son pantalon, une poche dite
finette, dans laquelle il place les cartes non biseautées
qu’il doit substituer aux siennes.--_Mémoires de Monsieur
Claude._
FIOLE, _f._ (familiar), _bottle of wine_; (popular) _head_, or “tibby;”
_face_, or “mug.” J’ai soupé de ta ----, _I have had enough of you_;
_I will have nothing more to do with you_. Se ficher de la ---- à
quelqu’un, _to laugh at one_.
On y connaît ma gargarousse,
Ma fiole, mon pif qui retrousse,
Mes calots de mec au gratin.
=RICHEPIN.=
Pour la ---- à quelqu’un, _for one_.
Songez qu’ ça s’ra l’plus beau jour d’la carrière d’Truiru,
toujours sur la brèche, qui s’donne tant d’mal pour vos
fioles.--=TRUBLOT=, _Le Cri du Peuple_, 1886.
Sur la ---- à quelqu’un, _about one, concerning one_. Il fagaut ne pas
dégueularder sur leur ----, _we must say nothing about them_.
FIOLER (familiar and popular), _to drink_; ---- le rogome, _to drink
brandy_. (Thieves’) Fioler, _to stare at one_.
FIOLEUR, _m._ (familiar and popular), _one who is too fond of the
bottle_, “a lushington.”
FION, COUP DE ----. See COUP. (Cads’ and thieves’) Dire ----, _to
apologize, to beg one’s pardon_.
FIONNER (familiar and popular), _to play the dandy_.
FIONNEUR, _m._ (familiar and popular), _one who plays the dandy_.
FIQUER (thieves’), _to strike_; _to stab_, “to chive.”
FIQUES, _f. pl._ (thieves’), _clothes_, or “clobber.”
FISCAL, _adj._ (familiar), _elegant_.
FISH, _m._ (familiar), _women’s bully_, or “ponce,” generally called
“maquereau,” _mackerel_. For list of synonyms see POISSON.
FISSURE, _f._ (popular), avoir une ----, _to be slightly crazy_, “to be
a little bit balmy in one’s crumpet.”
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