GOUTTE, _f._ (popular), marchand de ----, _retailer of spirits_. (Familiar and popular) Goutte militaire, _a certain disease termed in the English slang_ “French gout,” or “ladies’ fever.” GOUTTIÈRE, _f._ (familiar), lapin de ----, _a cat_, “long-tailed beggar.” GOUVERNEMENT, _m._ (popular), mon ----, _my wife_, “my old woman,” or “my comfortable impudence.” GOYE, _m._ (popular), _fool_; _dupe_. GRAFFAGNADE, _f._ (familiar), _bad painting_. GRAFFIGNER (popular), _to take_; _to seize_, “to nab;” _to scratch_. GRAFFIN, _m._ (popular), _rag-picker_, “bone-grubber,” or “tot-picker.” GRAIGAILLE, _f._ (popular), _bread_, “soft tommy, or bran.” GRAILLON, _m._ (familiar), _dirty slatternly woman_. That is, one who emits an odour of kitchen grease. GRAILLONNEUSE, _f._ (popular), _woman who not being a washerwoman washes her linen at the public laundry_. GRAIN, _m._ (familiar and popular), avoir un ----, _to be slightly crazy_, “to be a little bit balmy in one’s crumpet.” Avoir un petit ----, _to be slightly tipsy_, or “elevated.” See POMPETTE. (Popular) Un ----, _fifty-centime coin_. Formerly _a silver crown_. Léger de deux grains (obsolete), an expression applied formerly to eunuchs. Un catholique à gros ---- (obsolete), the signification is given by the quotation:-- On appelle catholique à gros grain, un libertin, un homme peu dévot, qui ne va à l’église que par manière d’acquit.--=LE ROUX=, _Dict. Comique_. GRAINE, _f._ (familiar and popular), de bagne, _thief’s offspring_; (familiar) ---- de chou colossal, _grand promises made with the object of swindling credulous persons_; ---- giberne, _soldier’s child_; ---- d’épinards, _epaulets of field-officers_. Avoir la ---- d’épinards, _to be a field-officer_. De la ---- d’andouilles _is said of a number of small children in a group_. GRAISSAGE, _m._, or GRAISSE, _f._ (popular), _money_, “dust.” That which serves “to grease the palm.” See QUIBUS. GRAISSE, _f._ (popular and thieves’), _money_, or “pieces.” See QUIBUS. (Thieves’) Voler à la graisse (for grèce), _to cheat at a game_. Also _to obtain a loan of money on_ “brummagem” _trinkets_, _or paste diamonds represented as genuine_. Voler à la graisse: se faire prêter sur des lingots d’or et sur des diamants qui ne sont que du cuivre et du strass.--=VIDOCQ.= GRAISSER (military), la marmite, _as a new-comer_, _to treat one’s comrades_, “to pay for one’s footing;” (general) ---- la peau, _to thrash_, “to wallop.” See VOIE. Graisser le train de derrière, _to give a kick in the behind_, “to toe one’s bum;” ---- les bottes à quelqu’un, _to help one_; ---- les épaules à quelqu’un (obsolete), _to thrash one_. Graisser les épaules à quelqu’un, pour dire, le bâtonner. Ce qui a fait dire aussi de l’huile de cotret, c’est-à-dire, des coups de bâton.--=LE ROUX=, _Dict. Comique_. Graisser les roues, _to drink_, “to have something damp.” See RINCER. (Thieves’) Graisser, or gressier, _to steal_, “to nick.” See GRINCHIR.