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
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FLÛTENCUL, _m._ (popular), _an apothecary_, or “clyster pipe.” Spelt
formerly flutencu. The _Dictionnaire Comique_ has the following:--
Peste soit du courteau de boutique et du flutencu.--_Pièces
Comiques._
FLÛTER (familiar and popular), _to drink_. See RINCER. Flûter, _to
give a clyster_. The _Dictionnaire Comique_ (1635) has the phrase, Se
faire ---- au derrière, “façon de parler burlesque, pour dire, se faire
donner un lavement.” Envoyer ----, _to send to the deuce_. C’est comme
si vous flûtiez, _it is no use talking_.
FLÛTES, _f. pl._ (popular), _legs_, or “pegs.” Termed also flûtes à
café.
Fort des flûtes et de la pince,
Il était respecté, Navet.
=RICHEPIN.=
Astiquer ses ----, _to dance_, “to shake a leg.” Jouer des ----, _to
run_, “to cut.” Se tirer les ----, _to run away_, “to hop the twig.”
See PATATROT.
FLÛTISTE, _m._ (popular), _hospital attendant_.
FLUX, _m._ (popular), avoir le ----, _to be afraid_. Literally _to be
suffering from diarrhœa_.
FLUXION, _f._ (popular), avoir une ----, _to be afraid_, “to be funky.”
FŒTUS, _m._, _first year student at the military school of surgery_.
FOGNER (popular), _to ease oneself_, _to go to the_ “crapping ken.” See
MOUSCAILLER.
FOIE, _m._ (popular), avoir du ----, _to be courageous_, _plucky_, _to
have_ “hackle.” Avoir les foies blancs, _to be a coward_, a “cow’s
babe.”
FOIN, _m._ (popular), faire du ----, _to make a noise_, “to kick up a
row;” _to bustle about_; _to dance_.
FOIRE, _f._ (popular and thieves’), acheter à la ---- d’empoigne, _to
steal_, “to claim.” See GRINCHIR. Foire, _fair_, and empoigner, _to
seize_.
FOIRON, _m._ (popular), _behind_. From foire, _diarrhœa_. See VASISTAS.
FONCÉ, _adj._ (popular), _well off_, “well ballasted.” See MONACOS.
FONCER (familiar and popular), à l’appointement, _to furnish funds_
(_Dictionnaire Comique_). (Thieves’) Foncer, _to give_, “to dub.”
Et si tezig tient à sa boule,
Fonce ta largue et qu’elle aboule,
Sans limace nous cambrouser.
=RICHEPIN.=
Villon (fifteenth century) uses the word with the signification of _to
give money_:--
M. Servons marchans pour la pitance,
Pour _fructus ventris_, pour la pance.
B. On y gaigneroit ses despens.
M. Et de foncer? B. Bonne asseurance,
Petite foy, large conscience;
Tu n’y scez riens et y aprens.
_Dialogue de Messieurs de Malepaye et de Baillevent._
(Popular) Se ----, _to be getting drunk_, or “muddled.” See SCULPTER.
FOND (popular), d’estomac, _thick soup_. (General) Etre à ---- de cale,
_to be penniless_, “hard up.” Literally _to be down in the hold_.
FONDANT, _m._ (popular and thieves’), _butter_, or “cow’s grease.”
FONDANTE, _f._ (popular and thieves’), _slice of bread and butter_.
FONDRE (popular), _to grow thin_; ---- la cloche, _to settle some piece
of business_. (Theatrical) Faire ---- la trappe, _to lower a trap door_.
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