GANDINERIE, _f._, GANDINISME, _m._ (familiar), _the world of gandins_, or “swelldom.” GANDOUSE, _f._ (popular), _mud_, _dirt_. GANNALISER (familiar), _to embalm_. From Gannal, name of a practitioner. The expression is little used. GANT, _m._ (popular), moule de ----, _box on the ear_. Properly _mould for a glove_. GANTER (cocottes’), 5½, _to be close-fisted_; ---- 8½, _to be open-handed_. GANTIÈRE, _f._ (familiar), _disreputable establishment where the female assistants make a show of selling gloves or perfumery, but where they retail anything but those articles_. GANTS DE PIED, _m. pl._ (military), _wooden shoes_. GARÇON, _m._ (popular), à deux mains, _slaughterer_; ---- de bidoche, _butcher boy_. (Thieves’) Garçon, _thief_, “prig.” Un brave ----, _an expert thief_. Un ---- de campagne, or de cambrouse, _highwayman_. Termed formerly in the English cant “bridle-cull.” La cognade à gayet servait le trèpe pour laisser abouler une roulotte farguée d’un ratichon, de Charlot et de son larbin, et d’un garçon de cambrouse.--=VIDOCQ.= (_The horse-police were keeping back the crowd in order to open a passage for a cart which contained a priest, the executioner, his assistant, and a highwayman._) GARDANNE, _f._ (familiar), _odd piece of silk_. GARDE, _m. and f._ (popular), national, _lot of bacon rind_. Gardes nationaux, _beans_. (Familiar) Descendre la ----, _to die_, “to kick the bucket.” See PIPE. Vieille ----, _superannuated cocotte_, or “played out tart.” Il pouvait citer tel et tel, des noms, des gentilshommes de sang plus bleu que le sien, aujourd’hui collés légitimement et très satisfaits, et pas reniés du tout, avec de vraies roulures, avec des vieilles-gardes!--=RICHEPIN=, _La Glu_. GARDE-MANGER, _m._ (popular), _the behind_. See VASISTAS. GARDE-PROYE (thieves’), _wardrobe_. GARDER (familiar), se ---- à carreau, _to take precautions in view of future mishaps_. GARDIEN, _m._ (popular and thieves’), ange ----, _man who undertakes to see drunkards home_; _rogue who offers to see a drunkard home, robs, and sometimes murders him_. GARÉ, _adj._ (popular), des voitures _is said of a steady, prudent man, or of one who has renounced a disreputable way of living_. GARE-L’EAU, m. (thieves’), _chamber-pot_, or “jerry.” GARGAGOITCHE, _f._ (thieves’ and cads’), _face_, or “mug.” GARGARISER (familiar and popular), se ----, _to drink_, “to wet one’s whistle.” For synonyms see RINCER. The expression is old. Donnez ordre que buvons, je vous prie; et faictes tant que nous ayons de l’eau fraische pour me gargariser le palat.--=RABELAIS=, _Pantagruel_. Se ---- le rossignolet, _to drink_, “to have a quencher.” GARGARISME, _m._ (popular), _a drink_, a “drain,” or “quencher.” (Familiar) Faire des gargarismes, _to trill when singing_. GARGAROUSSE, _f._ (popular and thieves’), _throat_, or “gutterlane;” _face_, or “mug.” (Sailors’) Se suiver la ----, _to eat_; _to drink_, or “to splice the mainbrace.”