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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HANNETONNER (familiar), _to have a hobby verging on monomania_.
HAPPER LE TAILLIS (thieves’), _to flee_, “to guy.” See PATATROT.
Compare with the expression, now obsolete, gagner le taillis, which
has the same signification.
Happons le taillis, on crie au vinaigre sur
nouzailles.--_Le Jargon de l’Argot._ (_They are_ “whiddling
beef,” _and we must_ “guy.”)
HAPPIN. See HABIN.
HAPPINER. See HABINER.
HARAUDER (popular), quelqu’un (obsolete), _to cry out after one_; _to
pursue one with insults_.
HARDI, _adj._ (popular), à la soupe _is said of one who is more ready
to eat than to fight_. Hardi! _courage!_ _with a will!_ _go it!_
HARENG, _m._ (thieves’), faire des yeux de ---- à quelqu’un, _to put
out one’s eyes_. (Printers’) Harengs, _name given by printers to
fellow-workers who do but little work_.
HARENG-SAUR, _m._ (popular), _gendarme_; _a member of the Société de
Saint-Vincent de Paul, a religious association_. (Roughs’) Piquer son
pas de ----, _to dance_.
HARIADAN BARBEROUSSE (thieves’), _Jesus Christ_.
Il rigolait malgré le sanglier qui voulait lui faire
becqueter Hariadan Barberousse.--=VIDOCQ.=
HARICANDER (popular), _to find fault with one about trifles_.
HARICOT, _m._ (popular), _body_. Cavaler, or courir sur le ----, _to
annoy_, _to bore one_, “to spur” _one_. (Thieves’) Un ---- vert, _a
clumsy thief_, _or one_ “not up to slum.” Se laver les haricots, _to
be transported_, or “lagged.” (Familiar) Hôtel des haricots, _formerly
the prison for undisciplined national guards_, the staple food for
prisoners there being haricot beans.
HARICOTEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _executioner_. Termed “Rouart” in the
sixteenth century, that is, _one who breaks criminals on the wheel_.
HARMONARÈS, _m._ (thieves’), _noise_, or “row.” Si le gonsalès fait de
l’harmonarès il faut le balancarguer dans la vassarès, _if the fellow
makes any noise we’ll pitch him into the water_.
HARMONIE, _f._ (popular), faire de l’----, _to make a noise_, “to kick
up a row.”
HARNAIS, _m._ (thieves’), _cards that have been tampered with_, or
“stocked broads;” _clothes_, or “clobber;” ---- de grive, _military
uniform_. Laver les ----, _to sell stolen clothes_, “to do clobber at a
fence’s.”
HARPE, _f._ (general), jouer de la ----, _to slily take liberties with
a woman by stroking her dress_, as Tartuffe did when pretending to
ascertain the softness of Elmire’s dress. The expression is old; it is
to be met with in the _Dict. Comique_.
Jouer de la harpe signifie jouer des mains auprès d’une
femme, la patiner, lui toucher la nature, la farfouiller,
la clitoriser, la chatouiller avec les doigts.
--=J. LE ROUX=, _Dictionnaire Comique_.
(Thieves’) Harpe, _prison-grated window_. Jouer de la ----, _to be in
prison_, or “in quod.” Pincer de la ----, _to put oneself at a window_.
HARPER (popular), _to catch_, “to nab;” _to seize_, “to grab.”
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