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
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JASANTE, _f._ (thieves’), _prayer_.
JASER (thieves’), _to pray_.
JASPIN, or GY (thieves’), _yes_, or “usher.”
Y a-t-il un castu dans cette vergne? Jaspin.--_Le Jargon de
l’Argot_. (_Is there an hospital in this country? Yes._)
The word has also the meaning of _chat_, _language_, “jaw.”
J’ai bien que’qu’ part un camerluche
Qu’est dab dans la magistrat’muche.
Son jaspin esbloque les badauds.
=RICHEPIN.=
JASPINEMENT, _m._ (thieves’), _barking of a dog_.
JASPINER (thieves’), _to talk_, _to speak_, “to rap, to patter.” Termed
also “débagouler, dévider, gazouiller, jacter, jardiner, baver, tenir
le crachoir;” ---- bigorne, _to talk in slang_, “to patter flash.”
Le cabe jaspine, _the dog barks_. Jaspiner de l’orgue, _to inform
against_, “to blow the gaff.”
JASPINEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _talker_; _orator_.
JAUNE, _m._ (thieves’), _summer_; (popular) _brandy_. See TORD-BOYAUX.
Jaune, _gold_, or “redge.” Aimer avec un ---- d’œuf _is said of a
woman who deceives her husband or lover_. An allusion to the alleged
favourite colour of cuckolds.
JAUNET, JAUNIAU, or SIGUE, _m._, _gold coin_, “canary, yellow-boy,
goldfinch, yellow-hammer, quid, shiner, gingle-boy.”
JAUNIER, _m._ (popular), _retailer of spirits_. An allusion to the
colour of brandy.
JAVANAIS (familiar), _kind of jargon formed by disguising words by
means of the letters of the syllable_ “av” _properly interpolated;
thus_ “je l’ai vu jeudi,” _becomes_ “javé lavai vavu javeudavi.”
Argot de Breda où la syllabe av, jetée dans chaque syllabe,
hache pour les profanes le son et le sens des mots, idiome
hiéroglyphique du monde des filles qui lui permet de se
parler à l’oreille--tout haut.--=DE GONCOURT.=
JAVARD, _m._ (thieves’), _hemp_; (popular) _tattle-box_.
JAVOTER (popular), _to prattle_.
JAVOTTE, _f._ (popular), _tattle-box_.
JEAN, _m._ (popular), de la suie, _sweep_; ---- guêtré, _peasant_, or
“clod;” ---- houssine, _stick_, or “toco.” (Thieves’) Un ---- de la
vigne, _a crucifix_.
JEAN-BÊTE, _m._ (general), _blockhead_, “cabbage-head.”
JEAN-FESSE, or JEAN-FOUTRE (general), _scamp_.
JEANJEAN, _m._ (familiar and popular), _simpleton_.
La blanchisseuse était allée retrouver son ancien époux
aussitôt que ce jeanjean de Coupeau avait ronflé.--=ZOLA=,
_L’Assommoir_.
(Soldiers’) Jeanjean, _recruit_, “Johnny raw.”
JEANNETON, _f._ (popular), _servant wench at an inn_; _girl of doubtful
morals_, a “dolly mop.”
JEM’ENFOUTISME, _m._ (familiar), _the philosophy of utter indifference_.
Aussi, lui n’était-il ni orléaniste, ni républicain, ni
bonapartiste, il affichait le “jem’enfoutisme” qui mettait
tout le monde d’accord.--=J. SERMET.=
JÉRÔME, _m._ (popular), _stick_, or “toco.”
JÉRUSALEM (thieves’), lettre de ----, _letter written from prison to
make a request of money_. The Préfecture de police, and consequently
the lock-up, was formerly in the Rue de Jérusalem.
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