AUTEL, (freemasons’), _table at which the master sits_; (popular) ---- de besoin, _prostitute_, or “bed-fagot;” ---- de plume, _bed_, “doss.” AUTEUR, _m._ (familiar), _father or mother_, “governor,” or “mater;” ---- beurrier, _unsuccessful author whose works are sold as wrapping-paper for tradesmen_. AUTOR (familiar and popular), jouer d’----, _to play cards without proposing_. Travailler d’---- et d’achar, _to work with energy_. AUTOR, d’---- (thieves’), _in a peremptory manner_; _deliberately_. Dis donc, fourline, la première fois que nous trouverons la Pégriotte, faut l’emmener d’autor.--=EUGÈNE SUE.= AUTRE, _adj._ (popular), cet ---- chien, _that chap_. Etre l’----, _to be duped_, or “bamboozled;” _to be the lover_; _the mistress_. L’---- côté, _appellation given by Paris students to that part of the city situated on the right bank of the river_. Femme de l’---- côté, _woman residing in that part of Paris_. AUVERGNAT, _m._ (popular), avaler l’----, _to take communion_. AUVERPIN, _m._ (popular), _native of Auvergne_. Appellation given to commissionnaires, charcoal-dealers, water-carriers, &c., who generally hail from Auvergne. Et là seulement vous trouverez les bals-musette, les vrais, tenus par des Auverpins à la fois mastroquets et charbonniers, hantés par des Auverpins aussi, porteurs d’eau, commissionnaires, frotteurs, cochers.--=RICHEPIN=, _Le Pavé_. AUVERPINCHES, _m. pl._ (popular), _clumsy shoes usually worn by Auvergnats_. AUX (popular), petits oignons, _in first-rate style, excellently_. Etre ---- petits oiseaux, _to be comfortable, snug_. AUXILIAIRE (prisoners’), _prisoner acting as servant_, or “fag.” AVALÉ (popular), avoir ---- le pépin, _to be pregnant_, or “lumpy.” An allusion to the apple. Avoir ---- une chaise percée, _to have an offensive breath_. Avoir ---- un sabre, _to be stiff_, “to have swallowed a poker.” Avoir ---- le bon Dieu en culotte de velours, _to have swallowed some excellent food or drink_. Et toujours le patron doit terminer sa lampée par un hum engageant et satisfait comme s’il avait avalé le bon Dieu en culotte de velours.--=RICHEPIN=, _Le Pavé_. AVALER (thieves’), le luron, _to receive the Host at communion_. (Popular) Avaler sa cuiller; sa fourchette; sa gaffe; sa langue; ses baguettes; _to die_. In other words, “to lay down one’s knife and fork;” “to kick the bucket;” “to croak;” “to stick one’s spoon in the wall,” &c.; ---- son poussin, _to be dismissed_, “to get the sack;” ---- son absinthe, _to put a good face on some disagreeable matter_. (Familiar) Avoir l’air de vouloir tout ----, _to look as though one were going to do mighty things_; _to look savage and threatening_. AVALE-TOUT-CRU, _m._ (popular), _braggart_, or “swashbuckler;” (thieves’) _thief who conceals jewels in his mouth_. AVALOIR, _m._ (popular and thieves’), _throat_, “peck alley,” or “gutter lane.”