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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JOBARDER (general), _to deceive_, _to dupe_, _to fool one_, “to
bamboozle.” The equivalents for _to deceive_ are in the different
varieties of jargon: “mener en bateau, monter un bateau, donner un
pont à faucher, promener quelqu’un, compter des mistoufles, gourrer,
affluer, rouster, affûter, bouler, amarrer, battre l’antif, emblêmer,
mettre dedans, empaumer, enfoncer, allumer, hisser un gandin,
entortiller, faire voir le tour, la faire à l’oseille, refaire, refaire
au même, faire la barbe, faire la queue, flancher, pigeonner, juiffer,”
&c.; and in the English slang or cant, “to stick, to bilk, to do, to
best, to do brown, to bounce, to take in, to kid, to gammon,” &c.
JOBELIN, _m._ (old word), jargon ----, _cant_.
Sergens à pied et à cheval,
Venez-y d’amont et d’aval,
Les hoirs du deffunct Pathelin,
Qui scavez jargon jobelin.
=VILLON=, _Les Repeues franches de
François Villon et de ses compagnons_,
15th century.
JOBERIE, _f._ (popular), _nonsense_, “tomfoolery.”
JOBISME, _m._ (popular), _poverty_.
Desroches a roulé comme nous sur les fumiers du
Jobisme.--=BALZAC.=
Compare with the English expression, “as poor as Job’s turkey;”
“as thin and as badly fed,” says the _Slang Dictionary_, “as that
ill-conditioned and imaginary bird.”
JOCKO, _m._ (familiar), pain ----, _loaf of an elongated shape_.
Jocko, pain long à la mode depuis 1824, année où le singe
Jocko était à la mode.--=L. LARCHEY=, _Dict. Hist. d’Argot_.
JOCRISSIADE, _f._ (familiar), _stupid action_. Jocrisse, _simpleton_.
JOJO, _adj. and m._ (popular), _pretty_; _simpleton_. Faire son ----,
_to play the fool_.
JONC, _m._ (thieves’), _gold_, or “redge.” Etre sur les joncs, _to be
in prison_, “in quod.” Un bobe, or un bobinot de ----, _a gold watch_,
a “red toy.”
JONCHER (thieves’), _to gild_.
JONCHERIE, _f._ (popular), _deceit_, _swindle_. The word is old.
Adonc le Penancier vit bien
Qu’il y ent quelque tromperie;
Quand il entendit le moyen,
Il congnent bien la joncherie.
_Poésies attribuées à Villon_,
15th century.
JONCHEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _gilder_.
JONQUILLE, _adj._ (popular), mari ----, _injured husband_. An allusion
to the alleged favourite colour of cuckolds.
JORNE, _m._ (thieves’), _day_ (Italian giorno). Refaite de ----,
_breakfast_.
JOSE, _m._ (popular), _bank-note_. From papier Joseph, _tracing paper_.
JOSEPH, _m._ (familiar), _over-virtuous man_. Faire le or son ----,
_to give oneself virtuous airs_. An allusion to the story of Madame
Potiphar and Joseph.
Je me disais aussi: voilà un gaillard qui fait le Joseph.
Il doit y avoir une raison.--=A. DUMAS FILS.=
JOSÉPHINE, _f._ (thieves’), _skeleton key_, or “betty.”
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