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
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GAZONNER (popular), se faire ---- la plate-bande, _to provide oneself
with a wig_.
GAZOUILLER (popular), _to speak_; _to sing_; _to stink_.
Oh! la la! ça gazouille, dit Clémence en se bouchant le
nez.--=ZOLA.=
GÉANT, _m._ (thieves’), montagne de ----, _gallows_, “scrag,” “nobbing
cheat,” or the obsolete expression “government sign-post.”
GEINDRE, _m._ (popular), _journeyman baker_. Properly _to groan
heavily_.
GENDARME, _m._ (popular), _red herring_; _mixture of white wine, gum,
and water_; _one-sou cigar_; _pressing iron_.
GÉNÉRAL, _m._ (popular), le ---- macadam, _the street_, or “drag.”
GÊNEUR, _m._ (familiar), _bore_.
GÉNISSE, _f._, _woman of bad character_. See GADOUE.
GÉNITEUR, _m._ (popular), _father_.
GENOU, _m._ (familiar), BALD PATE.
GENRE, _m._ (familiar), grand ----, _pink of fashion_. C’est tout à
fait grand ----, _it is quite “the” thing_. Se donner du ----, _to
assume fashionable ways or manners in speech or dress_; _to look
affected, to have_ “highfalutin airs.”
GENREUX, _adj. and m._ (familiar), _elegant_; _fashionable_, “dasher,”
“tsing tsing;” _one who gives himself airs_.
GENS, _m. pl._ (popular), être de la société des ---- de lettres,
_to belong to a tribe of swindlers who extort money by threatening
letters_, “socketers.”
GENTILHOMME SOUS-MARIN, _m._ (popular), _prostitute’s bully_, “ponce.”
For synonyms see POISSON.
GEORGET, _m._ (popular), _waistcoat_, “benjy.”
Les rupines et marquises leur fichent, les unes un georget,
les autres une lime ou haut-de-tire, qu’ils entrolent
au barbaudier de castu, ou à d’autres qui les veulent
abloquir.--_Le Jargon de l’Argot._ (_The ladies and wives
give them, some a waistcoat, others a shirt, or a pair of
breeches, which they take to the hospital overseer, or to
others who are willing to buy them._)
GERBABLE, _m._ (thieves’), _prisoner who is sure to be convicted_, _who
is_ “booked.”
GERBE, _m._ (thieves’), trial, or “patter;” _sentence_. Planque de
----, _assize court_. Le carré des petites gerbes, _the police court_.
GERBÉ, _adj._ (thieves’), _sentenced_, or “booked.”
On dit qu’il vient du bagne où il était gerbé à 24 longes
(condamné à 24 ans).--=VIDOCQ.=
Etre ---- à viocque, _to be sentenced to penal servitude for life_, or
“settled.”
GERBEMENT, _m._ (thieves’), _trial_; called also “sapement.”
La conversation roulait sur les camarades qui
étaient au pré, sur ceux qui étaient en gerbement
(jugement).--=VIDOCQ.=
GERBER (thieves’), _to sentence_.
Te voilà pris par la Cigogne, avec cinq vols qualifiés,
trois assassinats, dont le plus récent concerne deux riches
bourgeois ... tu seras gerbé à la passe.--=BALZAC.=
GERBERIE, _f._ (thieves’), _court of justice_.
GERBIER, _m._ (thieves’), _judge_, or “beak;” _barrister_, or
“mouthpiece.” Mec des gerbiers, _executioner_.
GERBIERRES, _f. pl._ (thieves’), _skeleton keys_, or “screws.”
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