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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Les Enfants de la loupe et les Filendèches habitaient de
préférence l’extérieur des carrières, leurs fours à briques
ou à plâtre.--_Mémoires de Monsieur Claude._
LOUPER (popular), _to idle about pleasure seeking_.
LOUPEUR (popular), _lazy workman_, _or one who is_ “Mondayish.”
LOUPIAT, _m._ (popular), _lazy_, or “Mondayish,” _workman_; _vagrant_,
or “pikey.”
LOUPIAU, or LOUPIOT, _m._ (popular), _child_, or “kid.”
LOUPION, _m._ (popular), _hat_, “tile.” See TUBARD.
LOURDE, or LOURDIÈRE, _f._ (thieves’), _door_, “jigger.” Bâcler la
----, _to shut the door_, “to dub the jigger.”
LOURDEAU, _m._ (thieves’), _devil_, “ruffin,” or “darble.”
LOURDIER, _m._ (popular), _door-keeper_.
LOUSSE, _f._ (thieves’), _country gendarme or corps of gendarmerie_.
LOUSSÉS, _m. pl._ (cads’), dix ----, _fifty centimes_. The word sous
disguised.
LOUSTAUD, _m._ (thieves’), _prison_, or “stir.” See MOTTE. Envoyer à
----, _to send to the deuce_, “to pot.”
LOUTER (popular). See FAIRE UN LOU.
LOUVETEAU, _m._ (freemasons’), _son of a freemason_.
LOUVETIER, _m._ (printers’), _man in debt_.
Ce terme est pris en mauvaise part, car le typo auquel on
l’applique est considéré comme faisant trop bon marché de
sa dignité.--=BOUTMY.=
LUBRE, _adj._ (thieves’), _dismal_. Lubre comme un guichemard, _as
dismal as a turnkey_.
LUC, _m._ (popular), messire ----, _breech_, or “tochas.” “Luc” is the
anagram of “cul.” See VASISTAS.
LUCARNE, _f._ (popular), _woman’s bonnet_.
Autrefois on assimilait le capuchon des moines à une
fenêtre, d’où le proverbe: défiez-vous des gens qui ne
voient le jour que par une fenêtre de drap.--=MICHEL.=
LUCARNE, _monocular eye-glass_. Crever sa ----, _to break one’s
eye-glass_.
LUCQUES, _m. pl._ (thieves’), _documents_. Porte ----, _pocket-book_,
“dee,” or “dummy.”
LUCRÈCE, _f._ (popular), faire sa ----, _to put on a virtuous look_.
LUCTRÈME, _m._ (thieves’), _skeleton key_, “screw,” “Jack in the box,”
or “twirl.” Filer le ----, _to open a door by means of a skeleton-key_,
“to screw.”
LUGNA (Breton cant), _to look_.
LUIRE, _m._ (old cant), _brain_.
LUIS, or LUISANT, _m._ (thieves’), _day_.
Je rouscaille tous les luisans au grand haure de
l’oraison.--_Le Jargon de l’Argot._ (_I pray daily the
great God of prayer._)
LUISANT, _m._, see LUIS; (familiar) _dandy_, “masher.”
Voici d’abord le pschutt, le vlan, les luisants, comme nous
les nommons aujourd’hui.--=P. MAHALIN.=
For synonymous terms see GOMMEUX.
LUISANTE, or LUISARDE, _f._ (thieves’), _moon_, or “parish lantern;”
_window_, or “jump.”
LUISARD, or LUYSARD, _m._ (thieves’), _sun_. Luysard estampille six
plombes, _it is six o’clock by the sun_.
LUISARDE, _f._ (thieves’), _moon_, “parish lantern, or oliver.”
LUMIGNON, _m._ (thieves’), le grand ----, _sun_. Properly lumignon is
_a lantern_.
LUMINARISTE, _m._ (theatrical), _lamp-lighter_.
LUNCHER (familiar), _to have lunch_. From the English.
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