Alors le rupin en colère, jura que s’il attrapait jamais des trucheurs dans son pipet qu’il leur ficherait cent coups de sabre sur l’andosse.--_Jargon de l’Argot._ ANDOUILLE, _f._ (popular), _a man devoid of energy_, a “muff.” Properly _chitterlings_. Faire l’----, _to play the fool_. Grand dépendeur d’andouilles, _one who prefers good cheer to work_. Viennent aussi des bat-la-flemme, des sans-douilles, Fainéants, suce-pots, grands dépendeurs d’andouilles, Qui dans tous les cabarets ont tué leur je dois, Et qui ne font jamais œuvre de leurs dix doigts. =RICHEPIN=, _La Mer_. (Cod-fishers’) Andouille, _wind blowing to sea-ward_. ANGAUCHE, or ANGLUCE, _f._ (thieves’), _goose_. Tortiller de l’----, _to eat goose_. ANGE-GARDIEN, _m._ (popular), _man whose calling is to see drunkards home; muslin inside a chemisette_. ANGLAIS, _m._ (familiar), _creditor_, “dun;” _man who keeps a mistress; a carefully made up dummy parcel in shops_. Il a de l’----, _is said of a horse which shows blood_. Anglais à prunes, voyageurs à prunes, _prudent travellers, who, being aware of the long price asked for fruit at restaurants, are satisfied with a few plums_; (cabmens’) ---- de carton, _an expression of contempt applied to a stingy_ “fare.” ANGLAISE, _f._ (mountebanks’), _the share of each partner in the business; the expenses of each guest at a meal_. (Popular) Danser à l’----, _a practice followed by girls who pretend to go to the ball of the opera, and stop at a restaurant where they await clients_. Faire une ----, _to pay one’s share in the reckoning; also a favourite game of loafers_. One of the players tosses all the pence of the party; those which turn up heads, or tails as the case may be, are his; another player adjudges to himself the tails, and so on with the rest. Filer, or pisser à l’----, _to give the slip_, _to take_ “French leave.” ANGLUCE, or ANGAUCHE, _f._ (thieves’), _goose_. ANGOULÊME, _f._ (thieves’), _the mouth_, “muns.” From “engouler,” _to swallow_. Se caresser l’----, _to eat and drink_, _to take_ “grub and bub.” See MASTIQUER. ANGUILLE, _f._ (thieves’), _belt_. Properly _eel_; (familiar) ---- de buisson, _snake_. ANIS, _m._ (popular), de l’----! _exclamation expressive of refusal_, may be rendered by “you be hanged!” See NÈFLES. ANISETTE, _f._ (popular), de barbillon, _water_, or “Adam’s ale.” ANJEZ (Breton cant), _father_. ANN DOOUZEG ABOSTOL (Breton cant), _twelve o’clock_. Literally _the twelve apostles_. ANNONCIER, _m._ (printers’), _compositor of advertisements_; also _man who belongs to an advertising firm_. ANNUAIRE, _m._ (military), passer l’---- sous le bras, _to be promoted according to seniority_. ANONCHALI (popular), _discouraged_, _cast down_, “down in the mouth.” ANQUILIEUSE, _f._ (thieves’), _female thief who conceals stolen property between her legs_. From “quilles,” a slang term for legs.