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
AVANTAGES, _m. pl._, AVANT-CŒUR, _m._, AVANT-MAIN, _f._, AVANT-POSTES,
_m. pl._, AVANT-SCÈNES, _f. pl._ (popular and familiar), _bosoms_,
“Charlies,” “dairies,” or “bubbies.”
AVANTAGEUX, _adj._ (popular), _convenient_, _roomy_. Des souliers ----,
_easy shoes_.
AVANT-COURRIER, _m._ (thieves’), _auger_.
AVARO, _m._ (popular), _damage_. From avarie.
AVERGOT, _m._ (thieves’), _egg_.
AVERTINEUX, _adj._ (popular), _of a suspicious, gruff disposition_; _of
a forbidding aspect_.
AVOCAT BÊCHEUR, _m._ (printers’), _backbiter_; (thieves’) _public
prosecutor_.
AVOINE, _f._ (military), _brandy_. (Popular) Avoir encore l’----, _to
have still one’s maidenhead_. (Coachmens’) Donner l’----, _to whip_;
_to thrash_, or “flush.”
AVOIR (popular), à la bonne, _to like, to love_, “to be sweet upon;”
---- campo, _to have leave to go out_; ---- celui, for avoir l’honneur
de; ---- dans le nez, _to have a strong dislike for a person or thing_;
(familiar) ---- dans le ventre, ce que quelqu’un a dans le ventre,
_what stuff one is made of_; (popular) ---- de ce qui sonne, _to be
well off_; in other words, _to have plenty of beans, ballast, rhino,
the needful, blunt, bustle, dust, coal, oof, stumpy, brass, tin_;
---- de la chance au bâtonnet, _to be unlucky_. Le jeu de bâtonnet is
the game of nap the cat; ---- de la glu aux mains, _to steal_, “to
nibble;” ---- de la ligne, _to have a nice figure_; ---- de l’anis
dans une écope: tu auras ----, _don’t you wish you may get it_; ----
de l’as de Carreau dans le dos, _to be humpbacked_; ---- des as dans
son jeu, _to have an advantage, to be lucky, to have_ “cocum;” ----
des mots avec quelqu’un, _to fall out with one, to have a tiff with
one_; ---- des mots avec la justice, _to be prosecuted_; ---- des mots
avec les sergots, _to have some disagreement with the police_; ----
des œufs sur le plat, _to have black eyes_, “to have one’s eyes in
mourning;” ---- des petits pois à écosser ensemble, _to have a bone to
pick with one_; ---- des planches, _to be an experienced actor_; ----
du beurre sur la tête, _to have some misdeed on one’s conscience_;
---- du chien, _to possess dash_, “go;” ---- du chien dans le ventre,
_to have pluck, endurance_, or “stay;” ---- du pain sur la planche,
_to have a competency_; ---- du poil au cul, _to possess courage_,
or “hackle,” _energy_; ---- du plomb dans l’aile, _to be wounded_;
---- du sable dans les yeux, _to feel sleepy_; ---- du toupet, _to
have audacity, cool impudence_; ---- fumé dans une pipe neuve, _to
be tipsy_, or “obfuscated;” ---- la flemme, _to be afraid_; _to feel
lazy_, or “Mondayish;” ---- l’arche, _to have credit_, or “jawbone;”
---- l’assiette au beurre, _to be fortunate in life_; ---- la cuisse
gaie _is said of a female of lax morals_; ---- le pot de chambre dans
la commode, _to have an offensive breath_; ---- le caillou déplumé,
le coco déplumé, _to be bald_, _to have_ “a bladder of lard;” ---- le
casque, _to fancy a man_; ---- le compas dans l’œil, _to possess a
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