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
BADIGEONNER, la femme au puits, _to lie_, “to cram.” An allusion to
Truth supposed to dwell in a well. Se ----, _to paint one’s face_.
BADIGOINCES, _f._ _pl._ (popular), _lips_, _mouth_, “maw.” Jouer des
----, or se caler les ----, _to eat_, “to grub.” S’en coller par les
----, _to have a good fill_, “to stodge.” See MASTIQUER.
BADINGUISTE, BADINGÂTEUX, BADINGOUIN, BADINGUEUSARD, BADINGOUINARD,
_terms of contempt applied to Bonapartists_. “Badinguet,” nickname of
Napoleon III., was the name of a mason who lent him his clothes, and
whose character he assumed to effect his escape from Fort Ham, in which
he was confined for conspiracy and rebellion against the government of
King Louis Philippe.
BADOUILLARD, _m._, BADOUILLARDE, _f._ (popular), _male and female
habitués of low fancy balls_.
BADOUILLE, _f._ (popular), _henpecked husband_, or “stangey;” _fool_,
or “duffer.”
BADOUILLER (popular), _to frequent low public balls_; _to wander about
without a settled purpose_, “to scamander;” _to have drinking revels_,
“to go on the booze.”
BADOUILLERIE, _f._ (popular), _dissipated mode of living_.
BAFFRE, _f._ (popular), _a blow in the face with the fist_, a “bang in
the mug.”
BAFOUILLER, (popular), _to jabber_; _to splutter_; _to sputter_.
BAFOUILLEUR, BAFOUILLEUX, _m._, BAFOUILLEUSE, _f._, _one who sputters_.
BAGNIOLE, _f._ (popular), _carriage_, “trap,” or “cask.”
BAGNOLE, _f._ (popular), diminutive of bagne, _convict settlement,
hulks: wretched room or house_, or “crib;” _costermonger’s
hand-barrow_, “trolly,” or “shallow.”
La maigre, salade ... que les bonnes femmes poussent devant
elles dans leur bagnole à bras.--=RICHEPIN=, _Le Pavé_.
BAGOU, BAGOÛT, _m._ (familiar), (has passed into the language),
_facility of speech_ (used disparagingly). Quel ---- mes amis! _well,
he is the one to talk!_ Avoir un fier ----, _to have plenty of jaw_.
On se laissa bientôt aller à la joie ravivée sans
cesse au bagout du vieux, qui n’avait jamais été aussi
bavard.--=RICHEPIN=, _La Glu_.
(Thieves’) Bagou, _name_, “monniker,” “monarch.”
BAGOULARD, _m._ (popular), _a very talkative man_, a “clack-box,” or
“mouth-all-mighty.” C’est un fameux ----, “He’s the bloke to slam.”
BAGOULER (popular and thieves’), _to prattle_, to do the “Poll Parrot;”
_to give one’s name_, or “dub one’s monniker.”
BAGUE, _f._ (thieves’), _name_, “monniker,” “monarch.”
BAGUENAUDE (thieves’ and cads’), _pocket_, “cly,” “sky-rocket,” or
“brigh;” ---- à sec, _empty pocket_; ---- ronflante, _pocket full of
money_. Faire la retourne des baguenaudes, _to rob drunkards who go to
sleep on benches_.
... Une bande de filous, vauriens ayant travaillé les
baguenaudes dans la foule.--=RICHEPIN=, _Le Pavé_.
BAGUENOTS, _m. pl._ (popular), faire les ----, _to pick pockets_, “to
fake a cly.”
BAGUETTES, _f. pl._ Properly rods, _or drum-sticks_. (Military) Avaler
ses ----, _to die_. (Familiar) Baguettes de tambour, _thin legs_,
_spindle-shanks_; _lank hair_.
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