GARGOINE, _f._ (popular and thieves’), _throat_, formerly “gargamelle;” _mouth_, or “potato-trap.” Termed formerly “potato-jaw,” according to a speech of the Duke of Clarence’s to Mrs. Schwellenberg:-- “Hold you your potato-jaw, my dear,” cried the Duke, patting her.--_Supplementary English Glossary._ Se rincer la ----, _to drink_, “to smile, to see a man” (American). GARGOT, _m._ (familiar and popular), _restaurant_; _cheap eating-house_. Some of the restaurants in Paris have two departments, the cheap one on the ground floor, and a more respectable one higher up. GARGOUENNE. See GARGOINE. GARGOUILLADE, _f._ (popular), _rumbling noise in the stomach_. GARGOUILLE; GARGOUINE; GARGUE, _f._ (popular), _face_; _mouth_. For list of synonyms see PLOMB. GARGOUSSE, _f._ (sailors’), avec le cœur en ----, _with sinking heart_. Un’ brise à fair’ plier l’pouce, Rigi, rigo, riguingo, Avec le cœur en gargousse, Rigi, rigo, riguingo, Ah! riguinguette. =J. RICHEPIN=, _La Mer_. GARGOUSSES DE LA CANONNIÈRE (popular), _turnips, cabbages, or beans_. GARIBALDI, _m._ (familiar), _red frock_; _sort of hat_. (Thieves’) Coup de ----, _blow given by butting at one’s stomach_. GARNAFFE, _f._ (thieves’), _farm_. GARNAFFIER, _m._ (thieves’), _farmer_, or “joskin.” GARNIR (popular), se ---- le bocal, _to eat_, “to grub.” See MASTIQUER. GARNISON, _f._ (popular), _lice_, “grey-backed uns.” GARNO, _m._ (popular), _lodging-house_, “dossing crib.” GAS, _m._ (familiar and popular), for gars, _boy_; _fellow_. Grand ----, _tall chap_. Mauvais ----, _ill-tempered fellow_. (Roughs’) Gas de la grinche, _thief_. Faut pas frayer avec ça, c’est un ---- de la grinche, _you must not keep company with the fellow, he is a thief_. Un ---- qui flanche, _a hawker_. (Thieves’) Fabriquer un ---- à la flan, à la rencontre, or à la dure, _to attack a man at night and rob him_, “to jump a cove.” GASPARD, _m._ (popular), _cunning fellow_, or “sharp file;” _rat_; _cat_, or “long-tailed beggar.” Concerning this expression there is a tale that runs thus: A boy, during his first very short voyage to sea, had become so entirely a seaman, that on his return he had forgotten the name for a cat, and pointing to Puss, asked his mother “what she called that ’ere long-tailed beggar?” Accordingly, sailors, when they hear a freshwater tar discoursing too largely on nautical matters, are very apt to say, “but how, mate, about that ’ere long-tailed beggar?” GÂTEAU, _m._ (popular), feuilleté, _shoe out at the sole_. (Thieves’) Avoir du ----, _to get one’s share of booty_, “to stand in.” GÂTE-PÂTE, _m._ (popular), _redoubtable wrestler_. GÂTER (popular), de l’eau, _to void urine_, “to lag.” Se ---- la taille, _to become pregnant_, or “lumpy.” GÂTEUSE, _f._ (familiar), _long garment worn over clothes to protect them from the dust_. GÂTISME, _m._ (familiar), _stupidity_. Le ---- littéraire, _decaying state of literature_.