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
JÉSUITE, _m._ (thieves’), _turkey-cock_. This species of _gallinacea_
was introduced into France by the Jesuit missionaries. Termed by
English vagabonds “cobble colter.” Engrailler un ----, _to steal a
turkey_, “to be a Turkey merchant.”
JÉSUS, _m._ (thieves’), _innocent man_, thieves considering themselves
as much-injured individuals. Grippe-Jésus, _gendarme_. (Popular) Petit
----, or à quatre sous, _newly-born infant_. (Sodomists’) Un ----,
_a Sodomist in confederacy with a rogue termed_ “chanteur,” _whose
spécialité is to extort money from rich people with unnatural passions_.
Le persillard qui, une fois d’accord avec le chanteur
pour duper son douillard, devient alors son compère,
c’est-à-dire son Jésus! Tel est dénommé aujourd’hui le
persillard exploiteur.--_Mémoires de Monsieur Claude._
JET, _m._ (thieves’), _musket_, or “dag.”
JETAR, _m._ (military), _prison_, “Irish theatre, or mill.”
J’ai ordre du sous-officier de semaine de te faire fourrer
au jetar sitôt rentré.--=G. COURTELINE.=
JETÉ, _adj._ (popular), bien ----, or bien gratté, _well done_, _well
made_, _handsome_. Etre ----, _to be sent to the deuce_.
JETER (thieves’ and cads’), _to send roughly away_; _to send to
the deuce_; ---- avec perte et fracas, _to bundle one out of doors
forcibly_; ---- un coup, _to look_, “to pipe.” Jettes-en un coup sur le
pante, _just look at that_ “cove.” Jeter de la grille, _to summons_,
_to request in the name of the law_; ---- une mandole, _to give one
a box on the ear_, “to smack one’s chops.” (Printers’) Jeter, _to
assure_. Je vous le jette, _I assure you it’s a fact_, “my Davy on it.”
JETER DU CŒUR SUR CARREAU (general), or ---- son lest, _to vomit_, “to
cast up accounts, to shoot the cat, or to spew.” Literally _to throw
hearts on diamonds, or to throw one’s heart (which has here the meaning
of stomach) on the floor_.
JETON, _m._ (popular), _coin_.
JEU DE DOMINOS, _m._ (popular and thieves’), _set of teeth_. Montrer
son ----, _to show one’s teeth_, “to flash” _one’s_ “ivories.”
JEUNE FRANCE (literary), _name given to young men of the “Ecole
romantique” in 1830--the “Byronian” school_.
Ils ont fait de moi un Jeune France accompli ... j’ai une
raie dans les cheveux à la Raphaël ... j’appelle bourgeois
ceux qui ont un col de chemise.--=TH. GAUTIER.=
JEUNE HOMME, _m._ (familiar and popular), _measure of wine of the
capacity of four litres_. Avoir son ----, _to be drunk_, “screwed.” For
synonyms see POMPETTE.
Tiens ta langue, tu as ton jeune homme, roupille dans ton
coin.--=E. MONTEIL.=
Suivez-moi ----, _ribbons worn in the rear of ladies’ dresses_, or
“follow me, lads.”
JINGLARD. See GINGLARD.
JIROBLE, _adj._ (thieves’), for girofle, _pretty_.
JOB, _m. and adj._ (popular), _silly fellow_, or “flat.” Monter le
----, _to deceive_, “to bamboozle.” Se monter le ----, _to entertain
groundless hopes_. Job is an abbreviation of jobard.
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