BEURRE, _m._ (familiar), _coin_, “oof;” _more or less lawful gains_. Faire son ----, _to make considerable profits_. Mettre du ---- dans ses épinards, _to add to one’s means_. Y aller de son ----, _to make a large outlay of money in some business_. C’est un ----, _it is excellent_, “nobby.” Avoir l’assiette au Beurre. See AVOIR. Au prix où est le ----. See AU. Avoir du ---- sur la tête. See AVOIR. BEURRE DEMI-SEL, _m._ (popular), _girl or woman already tainted_, _in a fair way of becoming a prostitute_. BEURRIER, _m._ (thieves’), _banker_, “rag-shop cove.” BÉZEF (popular), _much_. From the Arabic. BIARD (thieves’), _side_. Probably from biais. BIBARD, _m._ (popular), _drunkard_, or “mop;” _debauchee_, or “sad dog.” BIBARDER (popular), _to grow old_. BIBARDERIE, _f._ (popular), _old age_. BIBASSE, BIRBASSE, _adj. and subst._, _f._ (popular), _old_; _old woman_. Moi j’suis birbass’, j’ai b’soin d’larton. =RICHEPIN=, _Chanson des Gueux_. BIBASSERIE. See BIBARDERIE. BIBASSIER, _m._ (popular), _sulky grumbler_; _over-particular man_; _drunkard_, “bubber,” or “lushington.” BIBELOT (familiar), _any object_; (soldiers’) _belongings_; _knapsack or portmanteau_; (printers’) _sundry small jobs_. Properly _any small articles of artistic workmanship_; _knick-knacks_. BIBELOTER (popular), _to sell one’s belongings_, _one’s_ “traps;” ---- une affaire, _to do some piece of business_. Se ----, _to make oneself comfortable_; _to do something to one’s best advantage_. BIBELOTEUR, _m._ (familiar), _a lover of knick-knacks_; _one who collects knick-knacks_. BIBELOTIER, _m._, _printers’ man who works at sundry small jobs_. BIBI, _m._ (popular), _term of endearment generally addressed to young boys_; _woman’s bonnet out of fashion_. C’est pour ----, _that’s for me_, _for_ “number one.” La Muse à ----, _the title of a collection of poems by Gill_, literally _my own muse_. A ----! (printers’) _to Bedlam!_ abbreviation of Bicêtre, _Paris depôt for lunatics_. (Thieves’) Bibi, _skeleton key_, or “betty;” (military) _infantry soldier_, “mud-crusher,” “wobbler,” or “beetle-crusher.” BIBINE, _f._, _the name given by rag-pickers to a wine-shop_, or “boozing-ken.” BIBOIRE, _f._, (schoolboys’), _small leather or india-rubber cup_. BIBON, _m._ (popular), _disreputable old man_. BICARRÉ, _m._ (college), _fourth year pupil in the class for higher mathematics_. BICEPS, _m._ (familiar), avoir du ----, _to be strong_. Tâter le ----, _to try and insinuate oneself into a person’s good graces_, “to suck up.” BICH, KORNIK, or KUBIK (Breton), _devil_. BICHE, _f._ (familiar), _term of endearment_, “ducky!”; _girl leading a gay life_, or “pretty horse-breaker.” BICHEGANEGO (Breton), _potatoes_. BICHER (popular), _to kiss_. (Rodfishers’) Ça biche, _there’s a bite_; and in popular language, _all right_. BICHERIE, _f._ (familiar), _the world of_ “biches” or “cocottes.” Haute ----, _the world of fashionable prostitutes_.