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
ANSE, _f._ (popular), _arm_, “bender.” Faire le panier à deux anses,
_to walk with a woman on each arm_, _to play the_ “sandwich.”
ANTIF, _m._, ANTIFFE, _f._ (thieves’), _act of walking_. Battre l’----,
_to walk_, to “pad the hoof;” _to deceive_, “to kid;” _to dissemble; to
spy_, to “nark.”
ANTIFFER (thieves’), _to enter_, _to walk in_; _to walk_, “to pad the
hoof.”
ANTIFFLE (thieves’), _church_. Battre l’----, _to be a hypocrite_,
“mawworm.”
ANTIFFLER (thieves’), _to be married in church_, “to be buckled.”
ANTILLES, _f._ _pl._ (thieves’), _testicles_.
ANTIPATHER (popular), _to abominate_.
ANTIQUE, _student of the Ecole Polytechnique who has completed the
regular course of studies_.
ANTONNE, ENTONNE, _f._ (thieves’), _church_.
Au matin quand nous nous levons,
J’aime la croûte de parfond.
Dans les entonnes trimardons,
Ou aux creux de ces ratichons.
_Chanson de l’Argot._
ANTROLER, ENTROLLER (thieves’), _to carry away_, “to chuff.”
Un de ces luisans, un marcandier alla demander la thune
à un pipet, et le rupin ne lui ficha que floutière: il
mouchailla des ornies de balle qui morfiaient du grenu
en la cour; alors il ficha de son sabre sur la tronche
à une, il l’abasourdit la met dans son gueulard et
l’entrolle.--_Le Jargon de l’Argot._
APASCLINER (thieves’), s’----, _to get used to_, _acclimatized_.
A PERPÈTE (thieves’), _for life_. Gerbé à ----, _to be sentenced to
penal servitude for life_, _to be a_ “lifer.”
APIC (thieves’), _garlic_; _eye_, “daylight, “glazier,” or “ogle.”
APLATIR (familiar), quelqu’un, _to thrash soundly_, “to lick;” _to
reduce one’s arguments to nought_, “to nonplus.” Properly _to flatten_.
APLATISSEUR, _m._ (familiar), de pièces de six liards ----, _one who is
over particular; one who attaches undue importance to trifles_.
APLOMB, _m._ (popular), être d’----, _to be strong_, _sound_, “game.”
Reluquer d’----, _to look straight in the face_.
APLOMBER (thieves’), _to abash a person by one’s coolness_.
APONICHÉ (popular), _seated_.
APOPLEXIE, _f._ (popular), de templier, _a fit of apoplexy brought on
by excessive drinking_. From the saying, Boire comme un templier.
APOTHICAIRE, _m._ (popular), sans sucre, _workman with but few tools;
tradesman with an insufficient stock in trade_.
APÔTRES (thieves’), _fingers_, or “forks.”
APPELER (theatrical), azor, _to hiss_, or “to goose.” Literally _to
whistle a dog_. Azor, a common name for a dog.
APPUYER (theatrical), _to let scenes down_.
AQUARIUM, _an assembly of prostitutes’ bullies_, or “ponces.” From
their being denominated maquereaux, _mackerels_.
AQUICHER (thieves’), _to decoy_, _allure_.
AQUIGER, QUIGER (thieves’ and cads’), _to steal_, “to lift;” _to wound;
to beat_, “to wallop;” _to make_, or “to fake;” ---- les brèmes, _to
mark cards for cheating_, or to “stock broads.” It means also _to
take_, _to procure_, _to find_.
Dévalons donc dans cette piole
Où nous aquigerons riole,
Et sans débrider nos pouchons.
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