AGENOUILLÉE, _f._ (journalists’), _prostitute whose spécialité is best described by the appellation itself_. AGOBILLE (thieves’), _implements_, “jilts.” AGONIR (popular), _to abuse vehemently_, to “bully-rag,” or “to haul over the coals. “ AGOUT, _m._ (thieves’), _drinking-water_. AGRAFE, _f._ (popular), _hand_, “picker,” “dooks,” or “dukes.” AGRAFER (thieves’ and cads’), _to seize_, to “grab;” _to arrest_, “to pull up,” or “to smug.” AGRÉMENT, _m._ (theatrical), avoir de l’----, _to obtain applause_. (Popular) Se pousser de l’----, _to amuse oneself_. AGRIPPER (popular), _to seize secretly_, _to steal quickly_, to “nip.” S’----, _to come to blows_, “to slip into one another.” AGUICHER (popular), _to allure_, _decoy_, “to button;” _to quicken_, _to excite_. Il fallait lui faire comprendre qu’elle aguiche la soif du petit, en l’empêchant de boire.--=RICHEPIN=, _La Glu_. AGUIGNER (popular), _to teaze_, “to badger.” AHURI, _m._ (popular), de Chaillot, _block-head_, “cabbage-head.” See ABRUTI. AIDE-CARGOT, _canteen servant_. AIDES. See ALLER. AÏE-AÏE, _m._ (popular), _omnibus_. AIGUILLE, _f._ (military), à tricoter les côtes, _sword_, “toasting-fork;” (thieves’) _key_, or “screw;” _card made to protrude from a pack for cheating_, “old gentleman.” AIGUILLER (card-sharpers’), la brème, _to make a mark or notch on a card_. AILE, _f._, AILERON, _m._ (popular), _arm_, or “bender.” AILLE, IERGUE, ORGUE, UCHE, _suffixes used to disguise any word_. AILLE (familiar), fallait pas qu’y ----, _it is all his own fault_, _he has nobody to thank for it but himself_. AIMANT, _m._ (popular), faire de l’----, _to make a fussy show of affected friendliness through interested motives_. AIMER (popular), à crédit, _to enjoy the gratuitous good graces of a kept woman_. Aimer comme ses petits boyaux, _to doat on one_, “to love like the apple of one’s eye.” AIR, _m._ (popular), se donner de l’----, se pousser de l’----, jouer la fille de l’----, _to run away_, to “cut and run.” See PATATROT. AIRS, _m. pl._ (popular), être à plusieurs ----, _to be a hypocrite, double-faced person_, “mawworm.” A LA BALADE (popular), chanteurs ----, _itinerant singers_, “chaunters.” A LA BARQUE, _street cry of mussel costermongers_. A LA BONNE (popular), prendre quelquechose chose ----, _to take anything good-humouredly_. Avoir ----, _to love, to like_. Je peste contre le quart d’œil de mon quartier qui ne m’a pas à la bonne.--=VIDOCQ.= A LA CARRE (thieves’), dégringoler ----, _to steal from shops_; _kind of theft committed principally by women who pretend to be shopping_; “shoplifting.” A LA CLEF (familiar), _an expletive_. Trop de zèle ----, _too much zeal by half_. From a musical term. The expression is used sometimes with no particular meaning, thus, Il y aura du champagne ----, is equivalent to, Il y aura du champagne.