BERDOUILLE, _f._ (popular), _belly_, “tripes.” T’as bouffé des haricots que t’as la berdouille gonfle.--=RICHEPIN=, _Le Pavé_. BERGE, _f._, or LONGE (thieves’), _year_; _one year’s imprisonment_, “stretch.” BERGÈRE, _f._ (popular), _sweetheart_, “poll;” _last card in a pack_. BÉRIBONO, BÉRICAIN (thieves’), _silly fellow easily deceived_, a “flat,” a “go along.” BERLAUDER (popular), _to lounge about_, “to mike;” _to go the round of all the wine-shops in the neighbourhood_. BERLINE DE COMMERCE, _f._ (thieves’), _tradesman’s clerk_. BERLU, _m._ (thieves’), _blind_, or “hoodman.” From avoir la berlue, _to see double_. BERLUE, _f._ (thieves’), _blanket_, “woolly.” BERNARD, _m._ (popular), aller voir ----, or aller voir comment se porte madame ----, _to ease oneself_, “to go to Mrs. Jones.” BERNARDS, _m. pl._ (popular), _posteriors_, “cheeks.” BERNIQUER (popular), _to go away with the intention of not returning_. BERRI, _m._ (popular), _rag-picker’s basket_. BERRY, _m._ (Ecole Polytechnique), _fatigue tunic_. BERTELO, _m._ (thieves’), _one-franc piece_. BERTRAND, _m._ (familiar), _a swindler who is swindled by his confederates, who acts as a cat’s-paw of other rogues_. BERZÉLIUS, _m._ (college), _watch_. BESOIN, _m._ (popular), autel de ----, _house of ill-fame_, or “nanny-shop.” BESOUILLE, _f._ (thieves’), _belt_. From bezzi, Italian, _small coin kept in a belt_. BESSONS, _m. pl._ (popular), _the breasts_, “dairies.” Properly _twins_. BESTIASSE, _f._ (popular), _arrant fool_; _dullard_, “buffle-head.” BÊTE, _f. and adj._ (thieves’), _confederate in a swindle at billiards_. See BACHOTTER. (Popular) ---- à bon Dieu, _harmless person_ (properly _lady-bird_); ---- à cornes, _fork_; _lithographic press_; ---- à deux fins, _walking-stick_; ---- à pain, _a man_; _also a man who keeps a woman_; ---- comme ses pieds, _arrant fool_; ---- comme chou, _extremely stupid_; _very easy_; ---- épaulée, _girl who has lost her maidenhead_ (this expression has passed into the language). Une ---- rouge, _an advanced Republican, a Radical_. Thus termed by the Conservatives. Called also “démoc-soc.” BÊTISES, _f. pl._ (popular), _questionable_, or “blue,” _talk_. BETTANDER (thieves’), _to beg_, “to mump,” or “cadge.” BETTERAVE, _f._ (popular), _drunkard’s nose_, _a nose with_ “grog blossoms,” _or a_ “copper nose,” _such as is possessed by an_ “admiral of the red.” BEUGLANT, _m._ (familiar), _low music hall_; _music hall_. BEUGLER (popular), _to weep_, “to nap one’s bib.” BEUGNE, _f._ (popular), _blow_, “clout,” “bang,” or “wipe.” BEURLOQUIN, _m._ (popular), _proprietor of boot warehouse of a very inferior sort_. BEURLOT, _m._ (popular), _shoemaker in a small way_.