Il y a deux menées de ronds en ma henne et deux ornies en mon gueulard, que j’ai égraillées sur le trimar; bions les faire riffoder, veux-tu?--Girole, et béni soit le grand havre qui m’a fait rencontrer si chenâtre occasion.--_Le Jargon de l’Argot._ (_There are two dozen halfpence in my purse and two hens in my wallet, which I have caught on the road; we will cook them, if you like?--Certainly, and blessed be the Almighty who made me fall in with such a piece of good luck._) GIRONDE, _adj. and f._ (thieves’), _gentle_; _pretty_, “dimber;” _pretty woman or girl_, “dimbermort.” Also _a girl of bad character_, _a_ “bunter.” GIRONDIN, _m._ (thieves’), _simple-minded fellow_, “flat,” or “jay.” Le ---- a donné, “the jay has been flapped.” GIRONDINE, _f._ (thieves’), _handsome young girl_, or “dimbermort.” GÎTE, _m._ (popular), dans le ----, _something of the best_. An allusion to gîte à la noix, _savoury morsel of beef._ GITRE (thieves’), _I have._ Gitre mouchaillé le babillard.--_Le Jargon de l’Argot._ (_I have looked at the book._) GIVERNER (popular), _to prowl about at night_. GIVERNEUR, _m._ (popular), _one who prowls at night_; (thieves’) ---- de refroidis, _one who drives a hearse_. GLACE, _f. and m._ (familiar and popular), passer devant la ----, _to enjoy gratis the favours of a prostitute at a brothel_; _to pay for the reckoning at a café_. An allusion to the large looking-glass behind the counter. (Popular) Un ----, _glass of wine_. Sucer un ----, _to drink a glass of wine_. GLACÉ, _adj._ (popular and thieves’), pendu, _street lamps used till they were superseded by the present gas lamps_. A few are still to be seen in some lanes of old Paris. Les pendus glacés, ce sont ces gros réverbères à quatre faces de vitre verte carrées comme des glaces ... ce sont ces réverbères abolis qui pendent au bout d’une corde accrochée à un bras de potence.--=RICHEPIN=, _Le Pavé_. GLACIÈRE PENDUE, _f._ (thieves’). See GLACÉ. GLACIS, _m._ (popular), se passer un ----, _to drink_, “to take something damp,” or “to moisten one’s chaffer.” See RINCER. GLADIATEUR, _m._ (military), _shoe_. An ironical allusion to the fleetness of the celebrated racer Gladiateur. GLAIRE, _f._ (popular), pousser sa ----, _to talk_, “to jaw.” As-tu fini de pousser ta ----, _don’t talk so much_, which may be rendered by the Americanism, “don’t shoot off your mouth.” GLAIVE, _m._ (freemasons’), _carving-knife_; (thieves’) _guillotine_. Passer sa bille au ----, _to be guillotined_. See FAUCHÉ. GLAIVER (thieves’), _to guillotine_. GLAO (Breton cant), _rain._. GLAOU (Breton cant), _firebrands_. GLAS, _m._ (popular), _dull man with a dismal sort of conversation_, “croaker.” GLAVIOT, _m._ (popular), _expectoration_, or “gob.” GLAVIOTER (popular), _to expectorate_. GLAVIOTEUR, _m._ (popular), _man who expectorates_.