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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Tel grinche s’arrêtera à faire le barbot dans une
cambriolle (à voler dans une chambre). S’il a oublié sa
joséphine (fausse clef), jamais il ne se servira de la
joséphine d’un autre de peur d’attraper des punaises,
c’est-à-dire de manquer son coup ou d’avoir affaire à un
mouchard.--_Mémoires de Monsieur Claude._
(Popular) Faire sa ----, _is said of a woman who puts on virtuous airs,
indignantly tossing her head, or blushingly casting down her eyes, &c._
JOUASSER (familiar), _to play badly at a game or on an instrument_.
JOUASSON (familiar), _poor player_.
JOUER (popular), à la ronfle, or de l’orgue, _to snore_, “to drive
one’s pigs to market;” ---- des guibolles, _to run away_, “to leg it;”
see PATATROT; ---- du cœur, _to vomit_, “to shoot the cat;” (familiar
and popular) ---- de la harpe, _to stroke a woman’s dress as Tartuffe
with Elmire, or otherwise to take certain liberties with her_. See
HARPE. Jouer des mandibules, _to eat_, “to grub;” see MASTIQUER;
---- du Napoléon, _to be generous with one’s money_, “to come down
handsome;” an allusion to napoléon, _a twenty-franc coin_; ---- du
fifre, _to go without food_; ---- du piano _is said of a horse which
has a disunited trot, or of a man who is knock-kneed_; ---- du pouce,
_to give money_, “to fork out;” _to spend freely one’s money_. The
expression is old; Villon uses it in his dialogue of _Messieurs de
Mallepaye et de Baillevent_, 15th century:--
M. Sang bien, la mousse
M’a trop cousté. B. Et pourquoy? M. Pource.
B. Hay! hay! tout est mal compassé.
M. Comment? B. On ne joue plus du poulce.
Jouer comme un fiacre, _to play badly_; ---- la fille de l’air, _to run
away_, “to slope.” See PATATROT. (Theatrical) Jouer à l’avant-scène,
_to stand close to the footlights when acting_; ---- devant les
banquettes, _to perform before an empty house_; (thieves’) ---- à la
main chaude, _to be guillotined_. Literally _to play hot cockles_. See
FAUCHÉ. Jouer de la harpe, _to be in prison_, or “in quod;” ---- du
linve, or du vingt-deux, _to knife_, or “to chive;” ---- du violon, _to
file iron bars or irons_.
JOUJOUTER (popular), _to play_; _to frolic_.
JOUR DE LA SAINT JEAN BAPTISTE, _m._ (thieves’), _execution day_, or
“wry-neck day.”
JOURNÉE GOURD (Breton cant), _good day’s profits_.
JOURNOYER (popular), _to do nothing at all_.
JOUSTE, or _juste_ (thieves’), _near_. From the old word jouxte, Latin
juxta. Je trimardais jouste la lourde, _I was passing close to the
door_.
JOYEUSE, _f._ (thieves’), _sword_, or “poker.”
JOYEUX, _m. pl._ (military), _men of the “bataillon d’Afrique,”_ a
corps recruited with military convicts, who on being liberated serve
the remainder of their term of service in this corps.
JUBILE, _f._ (glove-makers’), _pieces of glove skins_, _the perquisites
of glove-makers_.
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