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
LISETTE, _f._ (thieves’), _long waistcoat_; _sword_, or “poker.”
LISSERPEM (roughs’), _to void urine_. The word “pisser” disguised by
prefixing the letter “l,” and adding the syllable “em” preceded by the
first letter of the word.
LISTARD, _m._ (journalists’), _one in favour of “scrutin de liste,” or
mode of voting for the election wholesale of all the representatives in
parliament of a “département.”_ For instance, the Paris electors have
to vote for a list of over thirty members.
LIT, _m._ (popular), être sous le ----, _to be mistaken_.
LITHOGRAPHIER (popular), se ----, _to fall_, “to come a cropper.”
LITRER, or ITRER (thieves’), _to have_.
LITRONNER (popular), _to drink wine_. From litron, _a wine measure_.
LITRONNEUR, _m._ (popular), _one who is too fond of the bottle_.
LITTÉRATURE JAUNE (familiar), _the so-called Naturalist literature_.
LITTÉRATURIER, _m._ (familiar), _a literary man after a fashion_.
LIVRAISON, _f._ (popular), avoir une ---- de bois devant sa porte, _to
have well-developed breasts_, _to be possessed of fine_ “Charlies.”
LIVRE, _m._ (popular), des quatre rois, _pack of cards_, “book of
briefs,” or “Devil’s books;” ---- rouge, _police registration book in
which the names of authorized prostitutes are inscribed_. Etre inscrite
dans le ---- rouge, _to be a registered prostitute_. (Freemasons’)
Livre d’architecture, _ledger of a lodge_. (Sharpers’) Livre, _one
hundred francs_.
LOA VIHAN (Breton cant), _coffee_.
LOCANDIER, _m._ (thieves’). Called also “voleur au bonjour,” _thief who
visits apartments in the morning, and who when caught pretends to have
entered the wrong rooms by mistake_. See GRINCHE.
LOCHE, _f._ (popular), mou comme une ----, _slow_, _phlegmatic_,
“lazybones.” (Thieves’) Loche, _ear_, or “wattle.” Properly _loach or
groundling_.
LOCHER (thieves’), _to listen_; (popular) _to totter_, “to be groggy.”
LOCOMOTIVE, _f._ (popular), _great smoker_.
LOF, LOFF, LOFFARD, LOFFE, _m._ (popular), _fool_, or “bounder.” “Lof”
is the anagram of “fol.”
A lui le coq,... pour inventer des emblèmes ... quand j’y
pense, fallait-il que je fusse loff pour donner dans un
godan pareil!--_Mémoires de Vidocq._
LOFFAT, _m._ (popular), _apprentice_.
LOFFIAT, _m._ (popular), _blockhead_, or “cabbage-head.”
LOFFITUDE, _f._ (thieves’), _stupidity_; _nonsense_. Bonisseur de
loffitudes, _nonsense-monger_. Solliceur de loffitudes, _journalist_.
LOGE INFERNALE, _f._ (theatrical), _box occupied by young men of
fashion_.
LOGER RUE DU CROISSANT (familiar and popular), _is said of an injured
husband_, or “buckface.” An allusion to the horns of the moon.
LOGIS DU MOUTROT, _m._ (thieves’), _police court_.
LOIR, _m._ (thieves’), _prison_, “stir, or Bastile.” See MOTTE.
LOKARD (Breton cant), _peasant_.
LOKO (Breton cant), _brandy_.
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