FOUAILLEUR, _m._ (popular), _milksop_, _a_ “sappy” _fellow_; _a libertine_, or “rip.” FOUATAISON, _f._ (thieves’), _stick_; ---- lingrée, _sword-stick_; ---- mastarée, _loaded stick_. FOUCADE, _f._ (popular), _sudden thought or action_; _whim_, or “fad.” Travailler par foucades, _to work by fits and starts_. FOUCHTRA (familiar), _native of Auvergne, generally a coal retailer or water carrier_. From their favourite oath. FOUETTE-CUL, _m._ (popular), _schoolmaster_, or “bum brusher.” FOUETTER (popular), _to emit a bad smell_; ---- de la carafe, _to have an offensive breath_. Tout cela se fond dans une buée de pestilence ... et, comme on dit dans ce monde-là, ça remue, ça danse, ça fouette, ça trouillotte, ça chelipotte, en un mot ça pue ferme.--=RICHEPIN=, _Le Pavé_. FOUETTEUX DE CHATS, _m._ (popular), _a poor simpleton with no heart for work_, “a sap or sapscull.” FOUFIÈRE, _f._ (thieves’), _watch_, “tatler, toy, or thimble.” FOUILLE, _f._ (popular and thieves’), _pocket_, “sky-rocket, cly.” FOUILLE-AU-TAS, _m._ (popular), _rag-picker_, or “tot finder.” FOUILLE-MERDE, _m._ (popular), _scavenger employed in emptying cesspools_, “gold finder;” also _a very inquisitive man_. FOUILLER (familiar and popular), pouvoir se ----, _to be compelled to do without_; _to be certain of not getting_. Also expressive of ironical refusal. Si vous croyez qu’il va vous prêter cette somme, vous pouvez vous ----, _if you reckon on his lending you that sum, you will have to do without it_. Tu peux te ----, _you shall not have it_; _you be hanged!_ Madame, daignerez-vous accepter mon bras?--Tu peux te fouiller, calicot!--=P. MAHALIN.= FOUILLES, _f. pl._ (popular), des ----! _is expressive of refusal_; may be rendered by the American “yes, in a horn.” For synonyms see NÈFLES. FOUILLOUSE, _f._ (thieves’), _pocket_, or “cly.” The word is old. Rabelais has “Plus d’aubert n’estoit en fouillouse.” FOUINARD, _m._ (popular), _cunning, sly man_; _a tricky_ “dodger;” _coward_, or “cow’s babe.” Termed in old French tapineux. FOUINER (popular), _to play the spy, or Paul Pry_; _to escape_, “to mizzle.” FOULAGE, _m._ (popular), _a great deal of work_, _much_ “graft or elbow grease.” FOULARD ROUGE, _m._ (popular), _woman’s bully_, “pensioner.” For synonymous expressions see POISSON. FOULER (familiar), se la ----, _to work hard_. Ne pas se ---- le poignet, _to take it easy_. Du tonnerre si l’on me repince à l’enclume! voilà cinq jours que je me la foule, je puis bien le balancer ... s’il me fiche un abatage, je l’envoie à Chaillot.--=ZOLA=, _L’Assommoir_. FOULTITUDE, _f._ (popular), _many_, _much_, “neddy” (Irish).