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
GODARD, _m._ (popular), _a husband who has just become a father_.
GODDAM, or GODDEM, _m._ (popular), _Englishman_.
(Entraînant l’Anglais.) Maintenant, allons jouer des
bibelots ... voilà un goddam qui va y aller d’autant.
--=P. MAHALIN.=
GODET, _m._ (popular), _drinking glass_. A common expression among the
lower orders, and a very old one.
GODICHE, _adj._ (familiar and popular), _simple-minded_, _foolish_.
Que tu es donc godiche, Toinon, de venir tous les matins
comme ça.--=GAVARNI.=
GODILLER (popular), _to be merry_; _to be carnally excited_.
GODILLEUR, _m._ (popular), _man who is fond of the fair sex_, a
“molrower,” or “beard-splitter.”
GODILLOT, _m._ (popular), _military shoe_. From the name of the maker;
(military) _recruit_, or “Johnny raw.”
GODIVEAU RANCE, _m._ (popular), _stingy man_.
Tu peux penser si je le traite de godiveau rance chaque
fois qu’il me refuse un petit cadeau.--=E. MONTEIL.=
GOFFEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _locksmith_. From the Celtic goff, _a smith_.
GOGAILLE, _f._ (popular), _banquet_.
GOGO, _m._ (familiar), _simple-minded man who invests his capital in
swindling concerns_, “gull;” _man easily fleeced_.
Quand les allumeurs de l’Hôtel des Ventes eurent jugé le
gogo en complet entraînement, il y eut un arrêt momentané
parmi les enchères intéressées.--=A. SIRVEN.=
(Popular) Gogo, _greenhorn_, “flat.” The term, with this signification,
is hardly slang. Villon uses it in his _Ballade de Villon et de la
Grosse Margot_ (15th century).
Riant, m’assiet le poing sur mon sommet, Gogo me dit, et me
fiert le jambot.
GOGOTTE, _adj._ (popular), _spiritless; weak; bad_. From gogo. Avoir la
vue ----, _to have a weak sight_. A corruption of cocotte, _disease of
the eyes_.
GOGUENAU, GOGUENO, GOGUENOT, _m._ (military), _tin can holding one
litre, used by soldiers to make coffee or soup_; also _howitzer_;
(military and popular) _privy_. Passer la jambe à Thomas ----, _to
empty the privy tub_. Hirondelle de ----, _low street-walker_, or
“draggle-tail.” See GADOUE.
GOGUETTE, _f._ (popular), _vocal society_; _wine-shop_. Etre en ----,
_to be merrily inclined; to be enjoying oneself, the bottle being the
chief factor in the source of enjoyment_.
GOGUETTER (popular), _to make merry_. From the old word goguette,
_amusement_.
GOGUETTIER, _m._ (popular), _member of a vocal society_.
GOINFRE, _m._ (thieves’), _precentor_. An allusion to his opening his
mouth like that of a glutton.
GOIPER (thieves’), _to prowl at night for evil purposes_, “quærens quem
devoret.”
GOIPEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _night thief_.
GOIPEUSE, _f._ (thieves’), _prostitute who prowls about the country_.
See GADOUE.
GOÎTREUX, _m._ (familiar), _silly fellow_; _man devoid of all
intellectual power_. Synonymous of crétin.
GOJE (Breton cant), _well_; _yes_.
GOLGOTHER (familiar), _to give oneself the airs of a martyr_. The
allusion is obvious.
GOMBERGER (thieves’), _to reckon_.
GOMBEUX, _adj._ (popular), _nasty_.
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