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
BAVARD, _m._ (popular), _barrister_, _lawyer_, “green bag;” (military)
_punishment leaf in a soldier’s book_.
BAVARDE, _f._ (thieves’), _mouth_, “muns,” or “bone box.”
Une main autour de son colas et l’autre dans sa bavarde
pour lui arquepincer le chiffon ronge.--=E. SUE.=
BAVER (popular), _to talk_, “to jaw;” ---- des clignots, _to weep_, “to
nap a bib;” ---- sur quelqu’un, _to speak ill of one_, _to backbite_.
Baver, also _to chat_. The expression is old.
Venez-y, varletz, chamberières,
Qui sçavez si bien les manières,
En disant mainte bonne bave.
=VILLON=, 15th century.
BAVEUX, _m._ (popular), _one who does not know what he is talking
about_.
BAYAFE, _m._ (thieves’), _pistol_, “barking iron,” or “barker.”
BAYAFER (thieves’), _to shoot_.
BAZAR, _m._ (military), _house of ill-fame_, “flash drum;” (servants’)
_house where the master is particular_, “crib;” (popular) _any house_;
(prostitutes) _furniture_, “marbles;” (students) _college or school_,
“shop.”
BAZARDER (popular), _to sell off anything, especially one’s furniture_;
_to barter_; (military) _to pillage a house; to wreck it_.
BAZENNE, _f._ (thieves’), _tinder_.
BÉ, _m._ (popular), _wicker-basket which rag-pickers sling to their
shoulders_.
BÉAR, _adj._ (popular), laisser quelqu’un ----, _to leave one in the
lurch_.
BEAU, _m._, _old term for swell_; ex-----, _superannuated swell_.
BEAU BLOND (thieves’), _a poetical appellation for the sun_.
BEAUCE, _f._ (thieves’), plume de ----, _straw_, or “strommel.”
BEAUCE, _m._, BEAUCERESSE, _f._, _second-hand clothes-dealers of the
Quartier du Temple_.
BEAUGE, _m._ (thieves’), _belly_, “guts.”
BEAUSSE, _m._ (thieves’), _wealthy man_, “rag-splawger,” _or one who
is_ “well-breeched.”
BÉBÉ, _m._ (popular), _stunted man_; _female dancer at fancy public
balls in the dress of an infant_; _the dress itself_; _term of
endearment_. Mon gros ----! _darling! ducky!_
BEC, _m._ (popular), _mouth_, “maw;” ---- salé, _a thirsty mortal_.
Claquer du ----, _to be fasting_, “to be bandied.” Rincer le ---- à
quelqu’un, _to treat one to some drink_. Se rincer le ----, _to wet
one’s whistle_. Tortiller du ----, _to eat_, “to peck.” Casser du ----,
_to have an offensive breath_. Avoir la rue du ---- mal pavée, _to have
an irregular set of teeth_. Ourler son ----, _to finish one’s work_.
(Sailors’) Se calfater le ----, _to eat or drink_, “to splice the
mainbrace.” (Thieves’) Bec de gaz, bourrique, flique, cierge, arnif,
peste, laune, vache, _police-officer or detective_, “pig,” “crusher,”
“copper,” “cossack,” “nark,” &c.
BÉCANE, _f._ (popular), _steam engine_, “puffing billy;” _small
printing machine_.
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