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
A LA CORDE (popular), logement ----, _low lodging-house, where the
lodgers sleep with their heads on a rope_, _which is let down early in
the morning_. In some of these the lodgers leave all their clothes with
the keeper, to ensure against their being stolen.
A LA COULE (popular), être ----, _to be conversant with_.
S’il avait été au courant, à la coule, il aurait su que le
premier truc du camelot, c’est de s’établir au cœur même de
la foule.--=RICHEPIN.=
Etre ----, _to be happy; at one’s ease; comfortable_. Je n’étais pas
----, _I felt very uncomfortable_.
A LA FLAN, À LA RENCONTRE, or À LA DURE (thieves’), fabriquer un gas
----, _to attack and rob a person at night_, “to jump a cove.”
A LA GRIVE! (thieves’ and cads’), _take care!_ “shoe leather!” Cribler
----, _to call out “police!”_ to “give hot beef.”
Par contretemps ma largue,
. . . . . .
Pour gonfler ses valades,
Encasque dans un rade,
Sert des sigues à foison;
On la crible à la grive,
Je m’la donne et m’esquive,
Elle est pommée maron.
_Mémoires de Vidocq._
A LA MANQUE (thieves’), fafiots, or fafelards ----, _forged bank
notes_, “queer soft.” Avoir du pognon, or de la galette ----, _to be
penniless_. Etre ----, _not to be trustworthy_; _to betray_.
Pas un de nous ne sera pour le dab à la manque.--=BALZAC.=
A LA PAPA (popular), _quietly, slowly_.
A LA PETITE BONNE FEMME (popular), glisser ----, _to slide squatting on
one’s heels_.
ALARMISTE (thieves’), _watch-dog_, “tyke.”
A-LA-SIX-QUATRE-DEUX (popular), _in disorder_, “all at sixes and
sevens;” _anyhow_, “helter-skelter.”
A LA SONDE (cads’), être ----, _to be cunning, wide awake_, “fly.”
Va, la môm’, truque et n’fais pas four.
Sois rien mariolle et à la sonde!
=RICHEPIN=, _Chanson des Gueux_.
A LA TIENNE ETIENNE! (popular), _your health!_
A LA VA-TE-FAIRE-FICHE, _anyhow_.
Un béret nature, campé par une main paysanne,
à la va te-faire-fiche, sans arrière-pensée de
pittoresque.--=RICHEPIN=, _Le Pavé_.
ALÈNES, _f. pl._ (thieves’), _tools_, _implements_, “jilts.” Properly
_shoemakers’ awls_.
ALENTOIR, _m._, for alentour (thieves’), _neighbourhood_, _vicinity_.
A L’ESBROUFFE (thieves’), faire un coup ---- sur un pantre, _to steal a
pocket-book from a person who has been seen to enter a bank, or other
financial establishment_. The thief watches his opportunity in the
neighbourhood of such establishments, and when operating keeps his hand
concealed under an overcoat which he bears on his arm.
ALIGNER (freemasons’), _to lay the cloth_. S’----, in soldiers’
language, _to fight a duel with swords_. The expression is used also by
civilians.
ALINÉALISTE, _m._ (literary), _writer who is fond of short paragraphs_.
ALLEMAND, _m._ (popular), peigne d’----, _the four fingers_.
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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 — John Shaqi
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