Y m’a flanqué huit-et-sept à cause que j’avais égaré le bouchon de mon mousqueton.--=G. COURTELINE.= HUÎTRES, _f. pl._ (popular), de gueux, _snails_; (thieves’) ---- de Varennes, _beans_. HUÎTRIFIER (familiar), s’----, _to become commonplace and dull of intellect_. From huître, figuratively _a fool_. HUMECTER (popular), s’---- les amygdales, la dalle du cou, or le pavillon, _to drink_, “to wet one’s whistle.” For synonyms see RINCER. HUPPÉ, _adj._ (popular), daim ----, _rich person_, _one who is_ “well ballasted.” HURE, _f._ (popular), _head_, or “tibby.” Properly _wild boar’s head_. See TRONCHE. HURÉ, _adj._ (thieves’), _rich_, or “rag splawger.” HURF, URF, _adj._ (general), c’est ----, _that’s excellent_, “tip-top, cheery, slap-up, first-chop, lummy, nap, jam, true marmalade, tsing-tsing.” Le monde ----, _world of fashion_. HURLUBIER, _m._ (thieves’), _idiot_, or “go along;” _madman_, or “balmy cove;” _tramp_, or “pikey.” Vous que le chaud soleil a teints, Hurlubiers dont les peaux bisettes, Ressemblent à l’or des gratins. =RICHEPIN.= HUSSARD, _m._ (popular), à quatre roues, _soldier of the train or army service corps_. Elixir de ----, _brandy_. (Popular and thieves’) Hussard de la guillotine, _gendarme on duty at executions_. Il est venu pour sauver Madeleine ... mais comment?... les hussards de la guillotine sont là.--=BALZAC.= Hussard de la veuve, _gendarme on duty at executions_. Oui, c’est pour aujourd’hui, les hussards de la veuve (autre nom, nom terrible de la mécanique) sont commandés--=BALZAC.= HUST-MUST (thieves’), _thank you very much_. I ICICAILLE, ICIGO (thieves’), _here_. IENNA (Breton cant), _to deceive_, _impose upon_. IERCHEM (roughs’), _to ease oneself_. A coarse word disguised. It is of “back slang” formation, with the termination em. IERGUE, parler en ----, _to use the word as a suffix to other words_. IGNORANTIN (common), _a “frère des Ecoles de la Doctrine chrétienne.”_ Thus called on account of their ignorance. They are lay brothers, and formerly had charge of what were termed in England ragged schools. IGO (thieves’), _here_. La chamègue est ----, _the woman is here_. IL (popular), y a de l’empile, or de l’empilage, _there is some trickery, unfair play, cheating_; ---- y a de l’empile, la peau alors! je me débine, _they are cheating, to the deuce then! I’ll go_; ---- y a des arêtes dans ce corps-là, _an euphemism to denote that a man makes his living off a prostitute’s earnings_, alluding to the epithet “poisson” applied to such creatures; ---- a plu sur sa mercerie _is said of a woman with thin skinny breasts_; ---- tombera une roue de votre voiture _is said of a person in too high spirits, to express an opinion that his mirth will soon receive a damper_. (Theatrical) Il pleut! _is used to denote that a play is a failure, that it is being hissed down_, or “damned.”