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
HERSE, _f._ (theatrical), _lighting apparatus on the sides of the
stage which illuminates those parts which receive no light from the
chandelier_.
HERZ, or HERS, _m._ (thieves’), _master_, or “boss;” _gentleman_, or
“nib-cove.” From the German herr.
HIGH-BICHERY, _f._ (familiar), _the world of fashionable cocottes_.
Quelque superbe créature de la high-bichery qui traîne son
domino à queue avec les airs souverains d’une marquise
d’autrefois.--=P. MAHALIN.=
HIRONDEAU, _m._ (tailors’), _journeyman tailor who shifts from one
employer to another_. An allusion to the swallow, a migratory bird.
HIRONDELLE, _f._ (familiar), _penny boat plying on the Seine_;
(popular) _commercial traveller_; _journeyman tailor from the country
temporarily established in Paris_; _hackney coachman_; ---- d’hiver,
_retailer of roasted chestnuts_; ---- de pont, _vagrant who seeks a
shelter at night under the arches of bridges_; ---- du bâtiment, _mason
from the country who comes yearly to work in Paris_. (Thieves’) Une
----, _variety of vagabond_.
Les Hirondelles, les Romanichels hantaient, comme les
taupes, l’intérieur de leurs souterrains insondables.
Romanichels et Hirondelles venaient y dormir, souper et
méditer leurs crimes.--_Mémoires de Monsieur Claude._
Une ---- de potence, _a gendarme_ (obsolete).
HISSER (popular), _to give a whistle call_; ---- un gandin. See GANDIN.
HISTOIRES, _f. pl._ (general), _menses_. Termed also “affaires,
cardinales, anglais.”
HOMARD, _m._ (popular), _doorkeeper, or servant in red livery_.
(Military) _spahis_. The spahis, called also cavaliers rouges, are a
crack corps of Arab cavalry commanded by French officers. There are now
four regiments of spahis doing duty in Algeria or in Tonkin.
HOMICIDE, _m._ See HALEINE.
HOMME, _m._ (familiar), au sac, _rich man_, _one who is_ “well
ballasted.” Un ---- affiche, _a_ “sandwich” _man_, that is, a man
bearing a back-and-front advertising board. Avoir son jeune ----, _to
be drunk_, or “tight.” See POMPETTE. (Thieves’) Un ---- de lettres,
_forger_: ---- de peine, _old offender_, “jail-bird.” (Printers’) Homme
de bois, _workman who repairs wooden fixtures of formes in a printing
shop_.
HOMME DE LETTRES, or SINGE, _m._ (printers’), _compositor_.
Le compositeur est un bipède auquel on donne la
dénomination de “singe.”... Pour vous éblouir il triture
une “matière pleine” de mots équivoques: “commandite,
bordereau, banque, impositions” et cela avec la gravité
d’une “Minerve.” Fier du rang qu’il occupe dans
l’imprimerie, ce chevalier du “composteur” s’intitule
“homme de lettres,” mais c’est un “faux titre” qu’il a
pris dans sa “galée,” car de tous les ouvrages auxquels il
a mis des “signatures” et qu’il prétend avoir “composés,”
il lui serait difficile de “justifier” une ligne, &c.
&c.--_Déclaration d’amour d’un imprimeur typographe à une
jeune brocheuse_, 1886.
HOMMELETTE, _m._ (popular), _man devoid of energy_, “sappy.”
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