INVITEUSE, _f._ (general), _waitress at certain cafés termed_ “caboulots.” Her duties, besides serving the customers, consist in getting herself treated by them to any amount of liquor; but, to prevent accidents, the drinks intended for the inviteuse are generally water or some mild alcoholic mixture. The inviteuse often plies also another trade--that of a semi-prostitute. IOT FETIS (Breton cant), _porridge of buckwheat flour_. IOULC’H (Breton cant), _giddy girl_. IOULC’HA (Breton cant), _to play the giddy girl_. IPÉCA, _m._ (military), le père ----, _the regimental surgeon_. IRLANDE, _f._ (thieves’), envoyer en ----, _to send anything from prison_. IRRÉCONCILIABLE, _m._ (familiar), _member of the opposition under Napoleon III_. ISGOURDE, _f._ (popular), _ear_, “wattle,” or “lug.” ISOLAGE, _m._ (thieves’), _abandonment_; _leaving in the lurch_. ISOLER (thieves’), _to forsake_. ISOLOIR, _m._ (familiar), se mettre sur l’----, _to forsake one’s friends_. ITALIAN (Breton cant), _rum_. ITALIQUE, _f._ (popular), avoir les jambes en ----, _to be bandy-legged_. Pincer son ----, _to reel about_. ITOU, _adv._ (popular), _also_. Moi ----, _I too_. ITRER (thieves’), _to have_. J’itre mouchaillé le babillard.--_Le Jargon de l’Argot._ (_I have looked at the book._) IVOIRES, _f._ (popular), _teeth_, “ivories.” Faire un effet d’----, _to show one’s teeth_, “to flash one’s ivories.” IZABEL (Breton cant), _brandy_. J JABOT, _m._ (popular), _stomach_, or “bread-basket.” Meant formerly _heart_, _breast_. Chouette ----, _fine breasts_. Faire son ----, _to eat_. JACQUE, _m._ (thieves’), _a sou_. JACQUELINE, _f._ (soldiers’), _cavalry sword_. JACQUES, _m._ (thieves’), _crowbar_, “James, or the stick.” (Military) Faire le ----, _to manœuvre_. JACTANCE, _f._ (thieves’ and cads’), _speech_, _talking_, “jaw.” Properly _silly conceit_. Caleter la ----, _to stop talking_, “to put a clapper to one’s jaw.” Quelle sale ---- il a! _how he does talk!_ Faire la ----, _to talk_, “to jaw;” _to question_, or “cross-kid.” JACTER (popular and thieves’), _to speak_, “to rap;” _to cry out_; _to slander_. Meant formerly _to boast_. JACTEUR, _m._ (popular), _speaker_. JAFFE, _f._ (popular), _soup_; _box on the ear_. Refiler une ----, _to box one’s ears_. (Thieves’) Jaffes, _cheeks_, or “chops.” JAFFIER, _m._ (thieves’), _garden_, or “smelling cheat.” JAFFIN, _m._ (thieves’), _gardener_. Termed in English slang “master of the mint.” JALUZOT, _m._ (general), _umbrella_, or “rain-napper, mush, or gingham.” From the name of the proprietor of the “Printemps,” who, being a wealthy man, said to his shopmen that he had not the means to buy an umbrella. So goes an idiotic song:-- Il n’a pas de Jaluzot, Ça va bien quand il fait beau, Mais quand il tombe de l’eau, Il est trempé jusqu’aux os.