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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GOBELOT. See GOBBE.
GOBE-MOUCHES, _m._ (thieves’), _spy_, “nark,” or “nose.”
GOBE-PRUNE, _m._ (thieves’), _tailor_. Termed also pique-poux, and in
the English slang a “cabbage contractor,” “steel-bar driver,” “button
catcher.”
GOBER (familiar and popular), _to like_; _to love_; _to please_. Je te
gobe, _you please me_; _I like you_. Gober la chèvre, or ---- son bœuf,
_to get angry_, “to get one’s monkey up,” “to lose one’s shirt,” “to
get into a scot.” Termed “to be in a swot” at Shrewsbury School. Se
----, _to have a high opinion of oneself_; _to love oneself too much_.
Non, non, pas de cabotins. Le vieux Bosc était toujours
gris; Prullières se gobait trop.--=ZOLA=, _Nana_.
La ----, _to be the victim_; _to have to pay for others_; _to be
ruined_; _to believe a false assertion_. Synonymous, in the latter
sense, of the old expression, “gober le morceau.”
Mais je ne suis pas homme à gober le morceau.--=MOLIÈRE=,
_Ecole des Femmes_.
Cent pas plus loin, le camelot a recommencé son truc,
après avoir ri, avec son copain, des pantes qui la
gobent!--=RICHEPIN.= (_A hundred steps further the sharper
again tries his dodge, after laughing with his chum at the
flats who take it in._)
Si nous échouons, c’est moi qui la gobe, _if we fail, I shall be made
responsible_.
GOBESON, _m._ (thieves’), _drinking-glass_, or “flicker;” _cup_;
_chalice_.
GOBET, _m._ (popular), _piece of beef_, “a bit o’ bull.” Had formerly
the signification of _dainty bit_.
Laisse-moi faire, nous en mangerons de bons gobets
ensemble.--=HAUTEROCHE=, _Crispin Médecin_.
Gobet, _disorderly workman_. Mauvais ----, _scamp_, or “bad egg.”
GOBETTE, _f._ (thieves’), _drinking-glass_, or “flicker.” Payer la
----, _to stand treat_.
GOBEUR, _m._ (familiar), _credulous man_, “flat.”
GOBICHONNADE, _f._ (familiar and popular), _gormandizing_.
GOBICHONNER (familiar and popular), se ----, _to regale oneself_.
Il se sentit capable des plus grandes lâchetés pour
continuer à gobichonner.--=BALZAC.=
GOBICHONNEUR, _m._, gobichonneuse, f. (familiar and popular),
_gormandizer_, “grand paunch.”
GOBILLEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _juge d’instruction, a magistrate who
instructs cases, and privately examines prisoners before trial_.
GOBSECK, _m._ (familiar), _miser_, “skinflint,” or “hunks.” One of the
characters of Balzac’s _Comédie Humaine_.
GODAILLE, _f._ (popular), _amusement_; _indulgence in eating and
drinking_.
On doit travailler, ça ne fait pas un doute: seulement
quand on se trouve avec des amis, la politesse passe avant
tout. Un désir de godaille les avait peu à peu chatouillés
et engourdis tous les quatre.--=ZOLA=, _L’Assommoir_.
GODAN, _m._ (popular), _falsehood_. Connaître le ----, _to be
wide-awake_, _not easily duped_, “to know what’s o’clock.” Monter un
---- à quelqu’un, _to seek to deceive one, or_ “best” _one_.
GODANCER (popular), _to allow oneself to be duped_, “to be done brown.”
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