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
GLIER, GLINET, _m._ (thieves’), _devil_, “ruffin.” From sanglier, _a
wild boar_. Le ---- t’entrolle en son pasclin, _the devil take you to
his abode!_
GLISSANT, _m._ (thieves’), _soap_.
GLISSER (popular), _to die_, “to stick one’s spoon in the wall,” “to
kick the bucket,” or “to snuff it.” See PIPE.
GLOBE, _m._ (popular), _head_, or “nut,” see TRONCHE; _stomach_. S’être
fait arrondir le ----, _to have become pregnant_, or “lumpy.”
GLOUGLOUTER (popular), _to drink_, “to wet one’s whistle.” See RINCER.
GLOUSSER (popular), _to talk_, “to jaw.”
GLUANT, _m._ (cads’ and thieves’), _penis_; _baby_, “kinchin.”
Paraît que j’suis dab’l ça m’esbloque.
Un p’tit salé, à moi l’salaud!
Ma rouchi’ doit batt’ la berloque.
Un gluant, ça n’f’rait pas mon blot.
=RICHEPIN.=
GLUAU, _m._ (popular), _expectoration_. (Thieves’) Poser un ----, _to
arrest_, “to smug.” See PIPER. Gluau, properly _a twig smeared over
with bird-lime_.
GLUTOUSE, _f._ (thieves’), _face_, or “mug.”
GNAC, _m._ (popular), _quarrel_.
GNAFFÉ, _adj._ (popular), _clumsily done_.
GNAFLE, _f._ (popular), _bad throw_. Après ---- raffle, _constant
ill-luck_.
GNIAFF, _m._ (familiar), _bad workman_; _writer or journalist of the
worst description_; (shoemakers’) _working shoemaker_.
GNIAFFER (popular), _to work clumsily_.
GNIASSE (cads’ and thieves’), mon ----, _I, myself_, “No. 1.” Ton ----,
_thou, thee_. Son ----, _he, him_; _I, myself_. Un ----, _a fellow_, a
“cove.” Un bon ----, _a good fellow_, a “brick.”
GNIFF, _adj._ (popular), ce vin est ----, _that wine is clear_.
GNIOL, GNIOLE, GNOLLE, _adj._ (popular), _silly_; _dull-witted_. Es-tu
assez ----! _how silly_, or _what a_ “flat” _you are!_
On voulait nous mettre à la manque pour lui (nous le faire
livrer), nous ne sommes pas des gnioles!--=BALZAC.=
GNOGNOTTE, _f._ (familiar and popular). The expression has passed into
the language; _thing of little worth_, “no great scratch.”
Ce farceur de Mes-Bottes, vers la fin de l’été, avait eu le
truc d’épouser pour de vrai une dame, très décatie déjà,
mais qui possédait de beaux restes; oh! une dame de la rue
des Martyrs, pas de la gnognotte de barrière.--=ZOLA=,
_L’Assommoir_.
GNOL-CHY (popular), abbreviation of Batignolles-Clichy.
GNOLE, _f._ (popular), _slap_, “clout,” “wipe;” or, as the Americans
have it, “biff.” Abbreviation of torgnole.
GNON, _m._ (popular), _blow_, “clout,” “bang,” or “wipe;” _bruise_, or
“mouse.”
GNOUF-GNOUF, _m._ (theatrical), _monthly dinner of the actors of the
Palais Royal Theatre_. When ceremonious, the members are called,
“Gnouf-gnoufs d’Allemagne;” when bacchanalian, “Gnouf-gnoufs de
Pologne.”
GO, parler en ----, _is to use that syllable to disguise words_.
GOBAGE, _m._ (popular), _love_.
GOBANTE, _f._ (popular), _attractive woman_. From gober, _to like_.
GOBBE, GOBELOT, _m._ (thieves’), _chalice_.
GOBELET, _m._ (thieves’), être sous le ----, _to be in prison_, or “put
away.”
GOBELIN, _m._ (thieves’), _thimble_.
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