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
FOUR, _m._ (familiar), _failure_. Faire ----, _to be unsuccessful_. Un
---- complet, _a dead failure_. (Theatrical) Four, _the upper part of
the house in a theatre_. An allusion to the heated atmosphere, like
that of an oven; (popular) _throat_, or “gutter lane.” Chauffer le
----, _to eat or drink_. (Thieves’) Un ---- banal, _an omnibus_, or
“chariot;” _a pocket_, or “cly.”
FOURAILLER (thieves’), _to sell_; _to barter_, “to fence.”
FOURAILLIS, _m._ (thieves’), _house of a receiver of stolen property,
of a_ “fence.”
FOURBI, _m._ (thieves’), _the proceeds of stolen properly_; (popular
and military) _more or less unlawful profits on provisions and stores,
or other goods_; _dodge_; _routine of the details of some trade or
profession_.
Puis il faisait sa tournée, ... rétablissait d’un coup de
poing ou d’une secousse la symétrie d’un pied de lit, en
vieux soldat sorti des rangs et qui connaît le fourbi du
métier.--=G. COURTELINE.=
Connaître le ----, _to be wide-awake_, “to know what’s o’clock.” Du
----, _goods and chattels_, or “traps,” termed “swag” in Australia;
_furniture_, _movables_, or “marbles.”
Voilà ce que c’est d’avoir tant de fourbi, dit un ouvrier
... lui aussi, il a déménagé ... emportant toute sa smala
dans une charrette à bras.--=RICHEPIN=, _Le Pavé_.
(Popular) Fourbi, _occupation_. A ce ---- là on ne s’enrichit pas, _one
does not get rich at that occupation, at that game_.
FOURCANDIÈRE, _f._ (thieves’), épouser la ----, _to get rid of stolen
property by casting it away when pursued_.
FOURCHE À FANER, _f._ (thieves’), _horseman_.
FOURCHETTE, _f._ (military), _bayonet_. Travailler à la ----, _to fight
with cold steel_. (Popular) Marquer à la ----, _is said of a tradesman
who draws up an incorrect account, to his own advantage, of course_.
(Thieves’) Vol à la ----, _dexterous way of picking a pocket with two
fingers only_.
FOURCHETTES, _f. pl._ (popular), _fingers_, “dooks;” _legs_, “pins;”
---- d’Adam, _fingers_. Jouer des ----, _to run away_, “to hop the
twig.” See PATATROT.
FOURCHU, _m._ (thieves’), _ox_, or “mooer.”
FOURGAT, or FOURGASSE, _m._ (thieves’), _receiver of stolen goods_, or
“fence.”
Le père Vestiaire était ce qu’on appelle dans l’argot des
voleurs un fourgat (recéleur).--_Mémoires de Monsieur
Claude._
FOURGATTE, _f._ (thieves’), _female receiver of stolen goods_, “fence.”
Viens avec moi chez ma fourgatte, je suis sûr qu’elle nous
prêtera quatre ou cinq tunes de cinq balles (pièces de cinq
francs).--=VIDOCQ.=
FOURGATURE, _f._ (thieves’), _stock of stolen property for sale_.
FOURGONNIER, _m._ (thieves’), _canteen man at the transport settlement_.
FOURGUE, _m._ See FOURGAT.
FOURGUER (thieves’), _to sell_, or “to do;” _to sell or buy stolen
property_, “to fence.”
Elle ne fourgue que de la blanquette, des bogues et des
broquilles (elle n’achète que de l’argenterie, des montres
et des bijoux).--=VIDOCQ.=
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