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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Un Toulousain ... jeune perruquier dévoré d’ambition,
vint à Paris, et y leva boutique (je me sers de votre
argot).--=BALZAC.=
Lever des chopins, _to find some profitable stroke of business_; ----
la jambe, _to dance the cancan_; ---- le bras, _to be dissatisfied_;
---- le pied, _to abscond_; (familiar and popular) ---- une femme, _to
find a woman willing to accord her favours_; ---- quelquechose, _to
steal something_, “to wolf;” (military) ---- les baluchons, _to go
away_; (prostitutes’) ---- un miché, _to find a client_, “to pick up a
flat.”
LEVEUR, _m._ (popular), _pickpocket_, “buzcove.” See GRINCHE. Leveur de
femmes, _a Don Giovanni in a small way_, or a “molrower.” (Printers’)
Bon ----, _skilled typographer_.
Un bon leveur est un ouvrier qui compose bien et
vite.--=BOUTMY.=
LEVEUSE, _f._ (familiar and popular), _a flash girl_.
LEVURE, _f._ (popular), _flight_. Faire la ----, _to run away_; “to
skedaddle,” “to mizzle.”
LÉZARD, _m._ (popular), _an untrustworthy friend_; _dog stealer_.
Le lézard vole des chiens courants, des épagneuls et
surtout des levrettes. Il ne livre jamais sa proie sans
recevoir la somme déclarée.--_Almanach du Débiteur._
Faire son ----, _to doze in the daytime like a lizard basking in the
sun_. (Thieves’) Faire le ----, to take to flight, “to make beef.” See
PATATROT. Un ----, _a traitor_, a “snitcher.”
LÉZARDES, _f. pl._ (printers’), _white spaces_.
Raies blanches produites dans la composition par la
rencontre fortuite d’espaces placées les unes au-dessous
des autres.--=BOUTMY.=
LÉZINE, _f._ (thieves’), _cheating at a game_.
LÉZINER (thieves’), _to cheat_, “to bite;” _to hesitate_, “to funk.”
LIBRETAILLEUR, _m._ (familiar), _a libretto writer of poor ability_.
LICE, _f._ (popular), _lecherous girl_. Literally _bitch_.
LICHADE, _f._ (popular), _embrace_.
LICHANCE, _f._ (popular), _hearty meal_, “tightener.” From licher,
equivalent to lécher, _to lick_.
LICHE, _f._ (popular), _excessive eating or drinking_. Etre en ----,
_to be_ “on the booze.”
LICHER (familiar and popular), _to drink_, “to lush.” See RINCER.
Il a liché tout’ la bouteille,
Rien n’est sacré pour un sapeur.
_Parisian Song._
LICHEUR, _m._ (familiar and popular), _gormandizer_. The term is very
old.
LICHOTER UN RIGOLBOCHE (popular), _to make a hearty meal_, or
“tightener.”
LIE DE FROMENT, _f._ (popular), _excrement_, or “quaker.”
LIÈGE, _m._ (thieves’), _gendarme_.
LIERCHEM (cads’), _to ease oneself_. An obscene word disguised. See LEM.
LIGNANTE, _f._ (thieves’), _life_.
Ce mot ... vient de la ligne, dite de vie, que les
bohémiens consultaient sur la main de ceux auxquels ils
disaient la bonne aventure.--=MICHEL.=
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