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
FOURGUEROLES, _f. pl._ (thieves’), _stolen property_, “swag.” Laver les
----, or la camelotte, _to sell stolen property_.
FOURGUEUR, _m._ (thieves’ and cads’), _seller_, _hawker_; ---- de
flanches, _man who goes about offering for sale prohibited articles,
such as certain indecent cards called “cartes transparentes,” or
contraband lucifer matches, the right of manufacture and sale of which
is a monopoly granted by government to a single company_.
FOURLINE, FOURLINEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _thief_, “prig.” For synonyms
see GRINCHE.
FOURLINER (thieves’), _to steal_, “to nick;” _to pick pockets_, “to buz
a cly.”
FOURLINEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _pickpocket_, or “buz-faker.”
FOURLOURE, _m._ (thieves’), _sick man_.
FOURLOURER (thieves’), _to murder_. See REFROIDIR.
FOURLOUREUR, _m._ (thieves’), _murderer_.
FOURMILLANTE, _f._ (thieves’), _crowd_, “push,” or “scuff.”
FOURMILLER (thieves’), _to move about in a crowd for the purpose of
picking pockets_. Termed by English thieves “cross-fanning.”
FOURMILLON, _m._ (thieves’), _market_; ---- à gayets, _horse fair_;
---- au beurre, _Stock Exchange_. Literally _money market_.
FOURNEAU, _m._ (popular), _fool_, or “duffer;” _vagabond who sleeps in
the open air_; _term of contempt_. Va donc eh! ----! _go along, you_
“bally fool.”
J’lui dis: de t’voir j’suis aise,
Mais les feux d’l’amour; nisco.
Quoi, m’dit-ell’: t’as mêm’ plus d’braise!
Va donc, vieux fourneau!
_Music-hall Song._
FOURNIER, _m._ (popular), _waiter whose functions are to pour out
coffee for the customers_.
FOURNIL, _m._ (popular and thieves’), _bed_, “doss,” or “bug walk.”
FOURNION, _m._ (popular), _insect_.
FOURNIR MARTIN (popular), _to wear furs_. Martin is the French
equivalent for Bruin.
FOUROBE, _f._ (thieves’), _overhauling of convict’s clothes_, “ruling
over.”
FOUROBÉ (thieves’), _one who has been searched_, or “turned over.”
FOUROBER (thieves’), _to search on one’s person_, “to frisk,” or “to
rule over.”
FOURQUER. See FOURGUER.
FOURREAU, _m._ (familiar), _lady’s dress which fits tightly and shows
the figure_; (popular and thieves’) _trousers_, “hams, sit-upons, or
kicks.” Je me suis carmé d’un bate ----, _I have bought for myself a
fine pair of trousers_.
FOURRÉE, _adj._ (thieves’), pièce ----, _coin which has been gouged
out_.
FOURRER (familiar and popular), se ---- le doigt dans l’œil, _to be
mistaken_; _to labour under a delusion_.
A la fin c’est vexant, car je vois clair, ils ont l’air de
me croire mal élevée ... ah! bien! mon petit, en voilà qui
se fourrent le doigt dans l’œil.--=ZOLA=, _Nana_.
Se ---- le doigt dans l’œil jusqu’au coude, _superlative of above_.
S’en ---- dans le gilet, _to drink heavily_, “to swill.”
FOURRIER DE LA LOUPE, _m._ (popular), _lazy fellow_, or “bummer;”
_loafer_; _roysterer_, “merry pin.”
FOURRURES, _f. pl._ (familiar), see PAYS; (fishermens’) _plug used for
stopping up holes in a boat_.
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