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
LACETS, _m. pl._ (thieves’), _handcuffs_, or “bracelets.” Marchand or
solliceur de ----, _gendarme_.
LÂCHAGE, _m._ (popular), _the act of forsaking one_.
LÂCHE, _m._ (popular), Saint ----, _lazy workman_; _one who likes to
lounge about, who is_ “Mondayish.” Réciter la prière de Saint ----, _to
sleep_, or “to doss.”
LÂCHER (popular), les écluses, son écureuil, or une naïade, _to void
urine_, or “to pump ship.” Termed also “changer ses olives d’eau,
lascailler, écluser, faire le petit, changer son poisson d’eau,
faire pleurer son aveugle, lancer, quimper la lance, gâter de l’eau,
arroser les pissenlits;” ---- une pastille, _to break wind_; (familiar
and popular) ---- d’un cran, _to leave one_; _to rid him of one’s
presence_; ---- la perche, _to die_; ---- les écluses, _to weep_, _to
blubber_, “to nap a bib;” ---- le coude, _to leave one alone_.
Lâchez-nous donc le coude avec votre politique!
cria le zingueur. Lisez les assassinats, c’est plus
rigolo.--=ZOLA=, _L’Assommoir_.
Lâcher le paquet, _to disclose_.
Et Madame Lerat, effrayée, répétant qu’elle n’était même
plus tranquille pour elle, lâcha tout le paquet à son
frère.--=ZOLA=, _L’Assommoir_.
Lâcher la mousseline, _to snow_.
Le ciel restait d’une vilaine couleur de plomb, et la
neige, amassée là-haut, coiffait le quartier d’une calotte
de glace.... Gervaise levait le nez en priant le bon Dieu
de ne pas lâcher sa mousseline tout de suite.--=ZOLA=,
_L’Assommoir_.
Lâcher une femme, _to break off one’s connection with a mistress_, “to
bury a moll;” ---- un cran, _to undo a button or two after dinner_. Se
---- d’une somme, _to spend reluctantly a sum of money_. (Theatrical)
Lâcher la rampe, _to die_, see PIPE; (thieves’) ---- un pain, _to
give a blow_, or “wipe.” (General) Se ----, Rigaud says: “Produire en
société un bruit trop personnel.”
LACROMUCHE, _m._ (popular), _women’s bully_, or “Sunday man.” For
synonymous expressions see POISSON.
LAFARGER (popular), _to poison_. An allusion to the celebrated Lafarge
poisoning case.
LAFFE, _f._ (thieves’), _soup_.
LAGAD-IJEN (Breton cant), _five-franc piece_.
LAGO (thieves’), _there_. Gaffine ---- le pante se fait la débinette,
_look there, the_ “cove” _is running away_.
LAGOUT, _m._ (thieves’), _water_ (“agout” with the article).
LAIGRE, _f._ (thieves’), _fair_; _market_. Michel says this word is no
other than the adjective “alaigre,” of which the initial letter has
disappeared.
LAINE, _f._ (tailors’), _work_, “graft.” Avoir de la ----, _to have
some work to do_. (Thieves’) Tirer la ----, _was formerly the term for
stealing cloaks from the person_; hence the old expression tire-laine,
_thief who stole cloaks_.
LAINÉ, _m._ (thieves’), _sheep_, or “wool-bird.”
LAISÉE, _f._ (thieves’ and roughs’), _prostitute_, or “bunter.” See
GADOUE.
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