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
GERCE, _f._ (thieves’), _wife_, or “mollisher;” mattress; (popular)
_woman with unnatural passions_. Un qui s’est fait poisser la ----, _a
Sodomist_.
GERMANIE, _f._, aller en ----. See ALLER.
GERMINY, _m._ (familiar and popular), _Sodomist_. From the name of a
nobleman who a few years ago was tried for an unnatural offence.
GERMINYSER (familiar and popular), se faire ----, _to be a Sodomist_.
GERNAFLE, _f._ (thieves’), _farm_.
GERNAFLIER, _m._ (thieves’), _farmer_, or “joskin.”
GÉRONTOCRACIE, _f._ (familiar), _narrow-mindedness_.
GÉSIER, _m._ (popular), _throat_. Se laver le ----, _to drink_.
GESSEUR, _m._ (popular), _fussy man_; _eccentric man_, a “rum un’.”
GESSEUSE, _f._ (popular), _prude_; _female who gives herself airs_.
GESTES. See ACCENTUER.
GET, GETI, _m._ (thieves’), _reed_, _cane_.
G--G, _m._ (popular), avoir du ----, _to have good sense_, “to know
what’s o’clock,” “to be up to a trick or two.”
GI, or GY (thieves’), _yes_, or “usher.”
GIBASSES, _f. pl._ (popular), _large skinny breasts_.
GIBELOTTE DE GOUTTIÈRE, _f._ (popular), _cat stew_.
GIBERNE, _f._ (popular), _the behind_. See VASISTAS.
GIBIER, _m._ (popular), à commissaire, _woman of disorderly or drunken
habits_; ---- de Cayenne, _incorrigible thief_, or “gallows’ bird.”
GIBOYER, _m._ (literary), _journalist of the worst sort_. From a play
by Emile Augier.
GIBUS, _m._ (familiar), _hat_, or “stove pipe.” See TUBARD.
GIGOLETTE, _f._ (popular), _girl of the lower orders who leads a more
than fast life, and is an assiduous frequenter of low dancing-halls_.
Si tu veux être ma gigolette,
Moi, je serai ton gigolo.
_Parisian Song._
GIGOLO, _m._ (popular), _fast young man of the lower orders_, _a kind
of_ “’Arry,” _the associate of a_ GIGOLETTE (which see).
GIGOT, _m._ (popular), _large thick hand_, “mutton fist.”
GIGUE ET JON! _bacchanalian exclamation of sailors_.
Largue l’écoute! Bitte et bosse!
Largue l’écoute! Gigue et jon!
Largue l’écoute! on s’y fout des bosses.
Chez la mère Barbe-en-jonc.
=RICHEPIN=, _La Mer_.
GILBOQUE, _m._ (thieves’ and cads’), _billiards_. Termed “spoof” in the
English slang.
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