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
GUEULER (popular), comme un âne, _to be loud-tongued_; (thieves’) ----
à la chienlit, _to cry out thieves! or police!_ “to whiddle beef.”
GUEULETON, _m._ (familiar and popular), _a feast_, or “spread.”
Et les artistes se levèrent pour serrer la main d’un frère
qui offrait un gueuleton général.--=E. MONTEIL.=
GUEULETONNER (familiar and popular), _to feast_.
GUEUSE, _f._ (popular), _mistress_; _prostitute_, or “mot.” See GADOUE.
Courir la ----, _to be a whore-monger_, or “molrower.”
GUEUX, _m._ (popular), _small pan full of charcoal used as a
foot-warmer by market women, &c._
Une vieille femme ... est accroupie près d’un gueux sur les
cendres duquel une cafetière ronronne.--=P. MAHALIN.=
GUEUX-GUEUX (obsolete), _rascal_; the expression being used in a
friendly manner.
GUIBE (popular), _leg_; ---- à la manque, _lame leg_; ---- de satou,
_wooden leg_. Jouer des guibes, _to dance_; _to run away_, “to slope.”
See PATATROT.
GUIBOLE, or GUIBOLLE, _f._ (popular and thieves’), _leg_, “pin.”
Mais comment? Lui, si démoli, si mal gréé à c’t’heure,
avec sa guibole boiteuse, et ses bras rouillés, et toutes
les avaries de sa coque en retraite, comment pourrait-il
saborder ce gaillard-là, d’aplomb et trapu?--=RICHEPIN=,
_La Glu_.
Jouer des guiboles, _to run_; _to dance_.
Puis, le soir, on avait fichu un balthazar à tout casser,
et jusqu’au jour on avait joué des guiboles.--=ZOLA=,
_L’Assommoir_.
GUIBON. See GUIBONNE.
GUIBONNE, _f._ (popular and thieves’), _leg_; ---- carrée, _ham_.
Mes jamb’s sont fait’s comm’ des trombones.
Oui, mais j’sais tirer--gar’ là-dessous!--
La savate, avec mes guibonnes
Comm’ cell’s d’un canard eud’ quinze sous.
=RICHEPIN=, _La Chanson des Gueux_.
GUICHE, _m. and f._ (popular and thieves’), duc de ----, _jailer_,
or “jigger dubber.” From guichetier, _jailer_. Mec de la ----,
_prostitute’s bully_, or “Sunday man.” Thus termed on account of
his kiss-curls. For list of synonyms see POISSON. Des guiches,
_kiss-curls_. Termed in the English slang, “aggerawators,” or “Newgate
knockers.” Regarding the latter expression the _Slang Dictionary_
says: “‘Newgate knocker,’ the term given to the lock of hair which
costermongers and thieves usually twist back towards the ear. The
shape is supposed to resemble the knocker on the prisoners’ door at
Newgate--a resemblance that carries a rather unpleasant suggestion
to the wearer. Sometimes termed a ‘cobbler’s knot,’ or ‘cow-lick.’”
Trifouiller les guiches, _to comb the hair_. (Familiar) Chevalier de
la ----, _prostitute’s bully_, or “pensioner.” For list of synonymous
expressions see POISSON. Le bataillon de la ----, _the world of
bullies_.
Et si la p’tit’ ponif’triche
Su’ l’compt’ des rouleaux,
Gare au bataillon d’la guiche!
C’est nous qu’est les dos.
=RICHEPIN.=
Un ----, _a prostitute’s bully_.
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