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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MAIN, _f._ (thieves’), jouer à la ---- chaude, _to be guillotined_.
An allusion to the posture of one playing hot cockles. See FAUCHÉ.
(Popular) Acheter à la ----, _to buy for cash_. (Familiar) Une ----
pleine pour un honnête homme, _a strong, fresh, comely country lass_.
(Players’) Une ----, _a set of tricks at baccarat or lansquenet_.
MAINS COURANTES, _f. pl._ (popular), _feet_, or “everlasting shoes;”
_shoes_, or “trotter-cases.” Se faire une paire de ---- à la mode, _to
run swiftly_. See PATATROT.
MAISON, _f._ (familiar and popular), à parties, _a gaming-house in
appearance, but in reality a brothel_.
Un grand salon est ouvert à tous les amateurs; on risque
galamment quelques louis ... et entre deux parties on
passe à une autre variété d’exercice dans une chambre ad
hoc. Quelques-unes de ces maisons, connues sous le nom de
“maisons à parties,” sont le suprême du genre.--=LÉO TAXIL.=
Maison de société, or à gros numéro, _brothel_, “flash-drum, academy,
buttocking-shop, or nanny-shop.” Fille de ----, _prostitute at a
brothel_. Maîtresse de ----, _mistress of a brothel_. Maison de passe,
_house of accommodation_.
Un grand nombre de maisons de passe sont sous la
coupe de la police. Ce sont des maisons tolérées par
l’administration, à qui elles rendent de fréquents services
en dénonçant les prostituées inscrites qui viennent s’y
cacher.--=DOCTEUR JEANNEL.=
(Military) Maison de campagne, _cells_, “mill, or Irish theatre.” Aller
à la ---- de campagne, _to be imprisoned_, or “shopped.”
MAÎTRE D’ÉCOLE, _m._ (horsebreakers’), _well-trained horse harnessed
with a young horse which is being broken in_.
MAÎTRESSE, _f._ (popular), de maison, _mistress of a brothel_; ---- de
piano, _old or ugly woman who acts as a kind of factotum to cocottes_.
MAJOR, _m._ (familiar), de table d’hôte, _elderly man with a military
appearance, who acts as a protector to low gaming-house proprietors_;
(Ecole Polytechnique) _first on the list_; ---- de queue, _last on the
list_.
MAL (popular), blanchi, _negro_, “darky, or snowball.” Un ---- à
gauche, _a clumsy fellow_. Une ---- peignée, _a dissolute girl_.
(Thieves’) Mal sucré, _perjured witness_. (Military) Avoir ---- aux
pieds, _to wear canvas gaiters_. (Familiar) Avoir ---- aux cheveux, _to
have a headache caused by prolonged potations_, especially when one is
“stale drunk,” which generally occurs after the “jolly dog” has taken
too many hairs of the other dog. (Theatrical) Avoir ---- au genou, _to
be pregnant_.
MALADE, _m. and adj._ (thieves’), _in prison_, “put away.” When the
prisoner leaves the “hôpital,” or _prison_, he is pronounced “guéri,”
or _free_; (popular) ---- du pouce, _idle_, or “Mondayish;” _stingy_,
or “clunch fist.” With a bad thumb, of course, it is difficult to “fork
out, to down with the dust, to sport the rhino, to tip the brads, or
even to stump the pewter.”
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