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
INDICATRICE, _f._ (familiar), _female spy in the employ of the police_.
INDIGENT, _m._ (bus conductors’), _outside passenger on a bus_. Thus
termed on account of the outside fare being half that inside. Indigent,
properly _pauper_.
INEXPRESSIBLES, _m. pl._ (familiar), from the English, _trousers_.
INFANTERIE, _f._ (popular), entrer dans l’----, _to become pregnant_,
or “lumpy.” Compare with the English expression “infantry,” a nursery
term for _children_.
INFECT, _adj._ (general), _utterly bad_. The expression is applied to
anything. Ce cigare est ----, _that cigar is rank_. Ce livre est ----,
_that book is worthless_. Un ---- individu, _a contemptible individual_.
INFECTADOS, _m._ (familiar), _cheap cigar_, “cabbage leaf.”
INFÉRIEUR, _adj._ (popular), cela m’est ----, _that is all the same to
me_.
INFIRME, _m._ (popular), _clumsy fellow_.
Ils sonnèrent tant bien que mal ces infirmes, et les gens
accoururent au tapage.--=L. CLADEL=, _Ompdraillés_.
INGRAT, _m._ (thieves’), _clumsy thief_.
INGURGITER SON BILAN (popular), _to die_, or “to snuff it.” See PIPE.
INODORE, _adj._ (familiar), soyez calme et ----, _be cool_; _don’t get
excited_; _be calm_; _be decorous_, or, as the Americans say, “pull
your jacket down.”
INOUISME, _m._ (familiar), ruisselant d’----, _extraordinarily fine_,
_good_, _dashing_, “slap up, or tzing tzing.”
INSÉPARABLES, _m. pl._ (familiar), _cigars sold at fifteen centimes a
couple_.
INSINUANT, _m._ (thieves’), _apothecary_; _one who performs, or used to
perform, the_ “clysterium donare” _of Molière_.
INSINUANTE, _f._ (thieves’), _syringe_.
INSINUATION, _f._ (thieves’), _clyster_.
INSOLPÉ, _m. and adj._ (thieves’), _insolent_, “cheeky.”
INSPECTEUR DES PAVÉS, _m._ (popular), _workman out of work_, or “out of
collar.”
INSTITUTRICE, _f._ (popular), _female who keeps a brothel_; _the
mistress of an_ “academy.”
INSTRUIT, _adj._ (thieves’), être ----, _to be a skilful thief_, a
“gonnof.”
INSURGÉ DE ROMILLY, _m._ (popular), _lump of excrement_, or “quaker.”
INTERLOQUER (soldiers’), _to talk_. Je vais aller en ---- avec le
marchichef, _I will talk about it to the quartermaster sergeant_.
INTERVER, ENTRAVER (thieves’), _to understand_. Je n’entrave que le
dail, _I do not understand_, _I don’t_ “twig.” Interver dans les
vannes, _to allow oneself to be_ “stuffed up,” _to be_ “bamboozled.”
INTIME, _m._ (theatrical), _man who is paid to applaud at a theatre_.
Termed also “romain.”
INTRANSIGEANT, _m._ (familiar), _politician of extreme opinions
who will not sacrifice an iota of his programme_. The reverse of
opportuniste.
INUTILE, _m._ (thieves’), _notary public_.
INVALO, _m._ (popular), for invalide, _pensioner of the “Hôtel des
Invalides,” a home for old or disabled soldiers_.
INVITE, _f._ (popular), faire une ---- à l’as _is said of a woman who
makes advances to a man_.
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