JAMBE, _f._ (popular), de vin, _intoxication_. S’en aller sur une ----, _to drink only a glass or a bottle of wine_. (Thieves’) Jambe en l’air (obsolete), _the gallows_, “scrag, nobbing-cheat, or government signpost.” (Familiar and popular) Lever la ----, _to dance the cancan_, see CHAHUT; _is said also of a girl who leads a fast, disreputable sort of life_. Faire ---- de vin had formerly the signification of _to drink heavily_, “to swill.” Dès ce matin, messieurs, j’ai fait jambe de vin. --=LA RAPINIÈRE.= Jambes de coq, _thin legs_, “spindle-shanks.” Jambes de coton, _weak legs_. Jambes en manche de veste, _bandy legs_. (Military) Sortir sur les jambes d’un autre, _to be confined to barracks or to the guard-room_. JAMBINET, _m._ (railway porters’), _coffee with brandy_. JAMBON, _m._ (popular), _violin_. (Military) Faire un ----, _to break one’s musket_, a crime sometimes punished by incorporation in the compagnies de discipline in Africa. JAMBONNEAU, _m._ (popular), ne plus avoir de chapelure sur le ----, _to be bald_. For synonymous terms see AVOIR. JAMBOT, _m._ (obsolete), _penis_. The term is used by Villon. JAPPE, _f._ (popular), _prattling_, “jaw.” Tais ta ----, _hold your_ “jaw,” “put a clapper to your mug,” or “don’t shoot off your mouth” (American). JAPPER (popular), _to scream_, _to squall_. JARDIN, _m._ (popular), faire du ----, _to quiz_, “to carry on.” JARDINAGE, _m._ (popular), _running down_, _slandering_. JARDINER (thieves’ and cads’), _to slander_; _to run down_; _to quiz_. Les gonciers qui nous jardinent, I’ s’ront vraiment j’tés. =RICHEPIN.= Jardiner quelqu’un, _to make one talk so as to elicit his secrets from him_, _to_ “pump” _one_. JARDINEUR, _m._ (popular and thieves’), _man who seeks to discover a secret_; _inquisitive man, a kind of_ “Paul Pry.” JARDINIER, _m._ (thieves’), see JARDINEUR; _a thief who operates in the manner described at the word_ “charriage.” JARGOLLE, or JERGOLE, _f._ (thieves’), _Normandy_. JARGOLLIER, _m._ (thieves’), _a native of Normandy_. JARGOUILLER (thieves’), _to talk incoherently_. JARGUER (thieves’). See JARS. JARNAFFE, _f._ (thieves’), _garter_. JARRETIÈRE, _f._ (thieves’), _watch chain_, or “slang.” JARS, _m._ (thieves’), _cant_, or “flash.” Dévider, jaspiner le ----, or jarguer, _to talk cant_, “to patter flash.” Entraver or enterver le ----, _to understand cant_. The language of thieves is also termed “thieves’ Latin,” as appears from the following quotation:-- “Go away,” I heard her say, “there’s a dear man,” and then something about a “queer cuffin,” that’s a justice in these canters’ thieves’ Latin.--=KINGSLEY=, _Westward Ho_. Entendre le ---- had formerly the signification of _to be cunning_. JARVILLAGE, _m._ (thieves’), _conversation_; _dirt_. An illustrious Englishman, whose name I forget, gave once the definition of dirt as “matter in the wrong place.” JARVILLER (thieves’), _to converse_, “to rap;” _to dirty_.