(Thieves’ and cads’) Je n’entrave pas ton ----, _I don’t understand your game_, “I do not twig,” or, as the Americans say, “I don’t catch on.” Nib du ----, on t’exhibe! _stop your game, they are looking at you!_ Si tu es enfilé et si le curieux veut t’entamer, n’entrave pas et nib de tous les flanches, _if you are caught and the magistrate tries to pump you, do not fall into the snare, and keep all the “jobs” dark_. FLANCHER (thieves’), _to play cards_; (popular) _to laugh at_; _to back out_; _to hesitate_; _to dilly-dally_, “to make danger” (sixteenth century). FLANCHET, _m._ (thieves’), _share_; _participation in a theft_. Foutu ----, _bad job_. C’est un foutu flanchet. Douze longes de tirade, Pour une rigolade. =VIDOCQ.= FLANCHEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _an informer_, a “nark;” _one who backs out_; _a player_; (popular) ---- de gadin, _one who takes part in a game played with a cork, topped by a pile of halfpence, which the players try to knock off by aiming at it with a penny_. (Popular and thieves’) Enfonceur de ---- de gadin, _poor wretch who makes a scanty living by robbing of their halfpence the players at the game described above_. He places his foot on the scattered coins, and works it about in such a manner that they find a receptacle in the interstices of his tattered soles. FLÂNE, _f._ (popular), _laziness_. FLANELLE, _f._ (prostitutes’), _one who does not pay_. (General) Faire ----, _to visit a house of ill-fame with platonic intentions_. FLANOCHER (popular), _to be lazy_; _to saunter lazily about_, “to shool.” FLANQUAGE, _m._ (popular), à la porte, _dismissal_, “the sack.” FLANQUE. See FLANCHE. FLANQUER UNE TATOUILLE (general), _to thrash_, “to wallop.” See VOIE. FLAQUADIN, _m._ (popular), _poltroon_, or “cow’s babe.” FLAQUE, _f._ (cads’ and thieves’), _lady’s reticule_; _lump of excrement_, or “quaker.” FLAQUER (popular), _to tell a falsehood_; _to ease oneself_, “to bury a quaker.” See MOUSCAILLER. V’là vot’ fille que j’ vous ramène, Elle est dans un chouet’ état, Depuis la barrière du Maine Elle n’a fait qu’flaquer dans ses bas. _Parisian Song._ FLAQUET, _m._ (thieves’), _fob_. Avoir de la dalle au ----, _to have well-filled pockets_. FLAQUOT, _m._ (thieves’), _cash-box_, or “peter.” FLASQUER (thieves’), _to ease oneself_. See MOUSCAILLER. Flasquer du poivre à quelqu’un, _to avoid one_; _to fly from one_. J’ai flasqué du poivre à la rousse, _I fled from the police_. FLATAR, _m._ (thieves’), _four-wheeler_, or “growler.” FLAUPÉE, FLOPÉE, _f._ (popular), _mass of anything_; _crowd_. Une ---- de, _much_, or “neddy.” FLAUPER (popular), _to thrash_, “to wallop.” See VOIE. FLÈCHE, ROTTIN, or PÉLOT, _m._ (thieves’ and cads’), _five-centime coin, or sou_. FLÉMARD, _m._ (general), _lazy or_ “Mondayish” _individual_; _poltroon_, or “cow’s babe.”