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
LOUBION, _m._ (thieves’), _bonnet or hat_. See TUBARD.
LOUBIONNIER, _m._ (thieves’), _hat or bonnet maker_.
LOUCHE, _f._ (thieves’), _hand_, or “duke.” La ----, _the police_, or
“reelers.” La ---- le renifle, _the police are tracing him_, _he is
getting a_ “roasting.”
LOUCHÉE, _f._ (thieves’), _spoonful_. From louche, _a soup ladle_.
LOUCHER (popular), de la bouche, _to have a constrained, insincere
smile_; ---- de l’épaule, _to be a humpback_, or a “lord;” ---- de la
jambe, _to be lame_. Faire ---- un homme, _to inspire a man with carnal
desire_.
LOUCHERBEM, _m._ (popular and thieves’), the word boucher disguised,
see Lem; BUTCHER. Corbillard des ----, see CORBILLARD.
LOUCHON, _m._, LOUCHONNE, _f._ (popular), _person who squints_, _one
with_ “swivel-eyes.”
LOUFFER (popular and thieves’), _to foist_, “to fizzle.” Si tu louffes
encore sans dire fion je te passe à travers, _if you_ “fizzle” _again
without apologizing I’ll thrash you_.
LOUFFIAT, _m._ (popular), _low cad_. Termed in the English slang a
“rank outsider.”
LOUFOQUE, _adj. and m._ (popular and thieves’), _mad_, or “cracked,
balmy, or one off his chump.” The word fou disguised by means of the
syllable loque. See LOQUE.
Si nos doch’ étaient moins vieilles,
On les ferait plaiser,
Mais les pauv’ loufoques balaient
Les gras d’nos laisées.
=RICHEPIN.=
LOUILLE, _f._ (thieves’), _prostitute_, or “bunter.” See GADOUE.
LOUIS, _f. and m._ (bullies’), une ----, _a bully’s mistress_, _a
prostitute_. Abbreviation of Louis XV., women in brothels often
powdering and dressing their hair Louis XV. fashion. See GADOUE.
J’couch’ que’qu’fois sous des voitures;
Mais on attrap’ du cambouis.
J’veux pas ch’linguer la peinture
Quand j’suc’ la pomme à ma Louis.
=RICHEPIN.=
(Popular) Un ---- d’or, _lump of excrement_, or “quaker.”
LOUISETTE, _f._ _old appellation of the guillotine_.
LOUIZA (Breton cant), WATER.
LOUP, _m._ (popular), _mistake_; _debt_; _creditor_, or “dun;” _misfit,
or piece of work which has been spoilt_; (printers’) _lack of type_;
_debt_; _creditor_. Faire un ----, _is to buy on credit_.
Le jour de la banque, le créancier ou “loup” vient
quelquefois guetter son débiteur (nous allions dire sa
proie) à la sortie de l’atelier pour réclamer ce qui lui
est dû. Quand la réclamation a lieu à l’atelier, ce qui est
devenu très rare, les compositeurs donnent à leur camarade
et au créancier une “roulance” accompagnée des cris: au
loup! au loup!--=BOUTMY.=
LOUPATE, _m._ (popular), the word “pou” disguised, _a louse_, or
“grey-backed ’un.”
LOUP-CERVIER, _m._ (familiar), _stockjobber_.
LOUPE, _f._, _laziness_, “loafing.” Camp de la ----, _vagabonds’
meeting-place_. Chevalier de la ----, _a lazy rambler or gad-about
who goes about pleasure seeking_. (Thieves’) Un enfant de la ----, _a
variety of the vagabond tribe_.
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