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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GOURD, _m._ (thieves’), _fraud_; _deceit_; _swindling_; (Breton cant)
_good_; _well_.
GOURDAGO (Breton cant), _food_.
GOURDE, _f._ (popular), _simpleton_, “flat.”
GOURDÉ, _m._ (popular), _fool_, “flat,” or “duffer.”
GOURDEMENT (popular and thieves’), _much_, or, as the Irish say,
“neddy;” _very_.
Ils piaussent dans les pioles, morfient et pictent si
gourdement, que toutime en bourdonne.--_Le Jargon de
l’Argot._ (_They sleep in the taverns, eat and drink so
much that everything resounds with it._)
GOURER, or GOURRER (popular and thieves’), _to deceive_, “to kid;” _to
swindle_, “to stick.” The word is old.
Pour gourrer les pauvres gens,
Qui leur babil veulent croire.
_Parnasse des Muses._
Se ----, _to be mistaken_; _to assume a jaunty, self-satisfied air_.
C’est la raison pourquoi qu’ je m’ goure,
Mon gniasse est bath: j’ai un chouett’
moure.
=RICHEPIN.=
GOUREUR, _m._ (thieves’), _deceiver_; _cheat_, or “cross-biter;” ----
de la haute, _swell mobsmen_. Goureurs, _rogues who assume a disguise
to deceive the public, and who sell inferior articles at exorbitant
prices_. The sham sailor, with rings in his ears, who has just returned
from a long cruise, and offers parrots or smuggled havannahs for sale,
the false countryman, &c., are goureurs.
GOUREUSE, _f._ (thieves’), _female deceiver or cheat_.
GOURGANDIN, _m._ (familiar), _a man too fond of cocottes_. Vieux ----,
_old debauchee_, _old_ “rip.”
GOURGANDINAGE, _m._ (popular), _disreputable way of living_.
GOURGANDINER (popular), _to lead a dissolute life_. From gourgandine,
_a girl or woman of lax morals_.
GOURGANER (popular), _to be in prison, eating_ “gourganes,” _or beans_.
GOURGAUD, _m._ (military), _recruit_ or “Johnny raw.”
GOURGOUSSAGE, _m._ (popular), _grumbling_.
GOURGOUSSER (popular), _to grumble_.
GOURGOUSSEUR, _m._ (popular), _grumbler_, or “crib biter.”
GOURT (popular), à son ----, _pleased_. The word is old, Villon uses
it:--
L’hostesse fut bien à son gourt,
Car, quand vint à compter l’escot,
Le seigneur ne dist oncques mot.
GOUSPIN, or GOUSSEPAIN, _m._ (popular), _malicious urchin_.
Il en tira le corps d’un chat: “Tiens dit le gosse
Au troquet, tiens, voici de quoi faire un lapin.”
Puis il prit son petit couteau de goussepain,
Dépouilla le greffier, et lui fit sa toilette.
=RICHEPIN=, _La Chanson des Gueux_.
GOUSPINER (popular), _to wander lazily about_, “to mike.” From gouspin,
_a malicious urchin_.
GOUSSE, _f._ (theatrical), la ----, _monthly banquet of the actors of
the Vaudeville Theatre_. See GOSSELIN.
GOUSSER (popular), _to eat_, “to grub.” See MASTIQUER.
GOUSSET, _m._ (popular), _armpit_. Properly _fob_. Avoir le ---- percé,
_to be penniless_, “to be a quisby.” Repousser du ----, _to emit a
disagreeable odour of humanity_.
GOÛT, _m._ (popular), faire passer, or faire perdre à quelqu’un le ----
du pain, _to kill one_, “to cook one’s goose.”
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