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
GAIMAR (popular), _gaily_; _willingly_. Allons y ----, _let us look
alive_; _with a will!_
GALAPIAT, GALAPIAN, GALOPIAU, _m._ (popular), _lazy fellow_, or
“bummer;” _street boy_.
Quelle rigolade pour les gamins! Et l’un de ces galapiats
qui a peut-être servi chez des saltimbanques, chipe un
clairon et souffle dedans un air de foire.--=RICHEPIN=, _Le
Pavé_.
GALBE, _m._ (familiar), _elegance_, _dash_. Etre truffé de ----, _to
be extremely elegant, dashing_, or “tsing tsing.” Galbe, literally
_elegance in the curve of vases, pillars_.
GALBEUX, _adj._ (familiar), _elegant_, _dashing_, “tsing tsing.”
GALERIE, _f._ (familiar), faire ----, to _be one of a number of
lookers-on_. Parler pour la ----, _to address to a person words meant
in reality for the ears of others, or for the public_.
GALETTE, _f._ (popular), _money_, “tin.” For synonyms see QUIBUS.
Boulotter de la ----, _to spend money_. (Military school of Saint-Cyr)
Promenade ----, _general marching out_. Sortie ----, _general holiday_.
GALEUX, _m._ (popular), _the master_, or “boss.” Properly _one who has
the itch_.
GALFÂTRE, _m._ (popular), _idiot_; _greedy fellow_.
Certes il n’aimait pas les corbeaux, ça lui crevait le
cœur de porter ses six francs à ces galfâtres-là qui n’en
avaient pas besoin pour se tenir le gosier frais.--=ZOLA=,
_L’Assommoir_.
GALIER, _m._ (thieves’), _horse_, or “prad.”
GALIÈRE, _f._ (thieves’), _mare_.
GALIFARD, _m._ (popular), _shoemaker_, or “snob;” _errand boy_;
(thieves’) _one who is not yet an adept in the art of thieving_.
GALIFARDE, _f._ (popular), _shop-girl_.
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