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
La sardine est jolie en arrivant à l’air ...
Mais pour aller la prendre il faut avoir le nez
Bougrement plein de poils, et de poils goudronnés;
Car la gueldre et la rogue avec quoi l’on arrose
Les seines qu’on lui tend, ne fleurent point la rose.
Gueldre, lisez mortier de crevettes, pas frais.
=RICHEPIN=, _La Mer_.
GUELTE, _f._ (shopmens’), _percentage allowed on sales_.
GUELTER (shopmens’), _to make a percentage on sales_; _to pay such
percentage_.
GUÉNAUD, _m._ (thieves’), _wizard_.
GUÉNAUDE, _f._ (thieves’), _witch_.
GUENETTE, _f._ (thieves’), _fear_, “funk.”
GUENILLES, _f. pl._ (familiar), trousser ses ----, _to run away_
(obsolete), “to tip one’s rags a gallop.”
Gentil ambassadeur de quilles,
Croyez-moi, troussez vos guenilles.
=SCARRON=, _Gigantomachie_.
GUENON, _f._ (popular), _mistress of an establishment_, _the master_
being “le singe.”
GUÉRI, _adj._ (thieves’), _set at liberty_; _free_; the prison being
termed “hôpital,” and imprisonment “maladie.”
Hélas! il est malade à Canelle (il est arrêté à Caen) ...
il a une fièvre chaude (il est fortement compromis), et
vous, il paraît que vous êtes guéri (libre)?--=VIDOCQ.=
GUÉRITE, _f._ (popular), à calotins, _confessional_. Guérite is
properly _a sentry-box_. Enfiler la ---- (obsolete), _to run away_.
GUÊTRÉ, _m._ (military), _trooper who, for some reason or other, has to
make the day’s journey on foot_.
GUEULARD, _m._ (thieves’), _bag_; _wallet_.
Ils trollent ordinairement à leur côté un gueulard avec une
rouillarde pour mettre le pivois.--_Le Jargon de l’Argot._
(_They generally carry by their side a wallet with a bottle
to keep the wine in._)
(Popular) Un ----, _a stove_. Gueulard, properly a _gormandizer_.
GUEULARDE, _f._ (thieves’), _pocket_, “cly,” “sky-rocket,” or “brigh.”
Termed also “fouillouse, louche, profonde, or grande.”
GUEULARDISE, _f._ (popular), _dainty food_.
GUEULE, _f._ (popular), d’empeigne, _palate which, by dint of constant
application to the bottle, has become proof against the strongest
liquors_; _loud voice_; ---- de raie, _ugly phiz_, or “knocker face;”
---- de tourte, _stupid-looking face_. Bonne ----, _grotesque face_.
Crever la ---- à quelqu’un, _to break one’s head_.
Je te vas crever la gueule.--=ALPHONSE KARR.=
Faire la ----, _to make a wry face_. Faire sa ----, _to give oneself
disdainful airs_; _to look disgusted_.
Dis donc, Marie bon-bec, ne fais pas ta gueule.--=ZOLA.=
Avoir de la ----, _to be loud-mouthed_. Il n’a que la ----, _he is a
humbug_. Se chiquer la ----, _to maul one another’s face_. (Military)
Roulement de la ----, _beating to dinner_. Se sculpter une ---- de
bois, _to get drunk_, or “screwed.” For synonyms see SCULPTER.
GUEULÉE, _f._ (popular), _howling_; _meal_. Chercher la ----, _to be a
parasite_, or “quiller.”
GUEULÉES, _f. pl._ (popular), _objectionable talk_, or “blue talk.”
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