BIGE, BIGEOIS, BIGEOT, _m._ (thieves’), _blockhead_, “go along;” _dupe_, or “gull.” BIGORNE, _m._ (thieves’), jaspiner or rouscailler ----, _to talk cant_, “to patter flash.” BIGORNEAU, _m._ (popular), _police officer_, or “crusher;” _marine_, or “jolly.” BIGORNIAU, _m._ (popular), _native of Auvergne_. BIGORNION, _m._ (popular), _falsehood_, “swack up.” BIGOTER (thieves’), _to play the religious hypocrite_. BIGOTEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _devout person_. BIGOTTER, (popular), _to pray_. BIGREMENT (familiar), a forcible expression, _extremely_, “awfully.” BIJOU, _m._ (popular), _broken victuals_, or “manablins;” (freemasons’) _badge_; ---- de loge, _badge worn on the left side_; ---- de l’ordre, _emblem_. BIJOUTER (thieves’), _to steal jewels_. BIJOUTERIE, _f._ (popular), _money advanced on wages_, “dead-horse.” BIJOUTIER, _m._, BIJOUTIÈRE, _f._ (popular), _retailer of_ “arlequins” (which see); bijoutier sur le genou, en cuir, _shoemaker_, or “snob.” BILBOQUET, _m._ (popular), _person with a large head_; _man who is made fun of_; _a laughing-stock_; _a litre bottle of wine_. Bilboquet, properly _cup and ball_. (Printers’) _sundry small jobs_. BILLANCER (thieves’), _to serve one’s full term of imprisonment_. BILLANCHER (popular), _to pay_, “to fork out,” “to shell out.” BILLARD, _m._ (popular), dévisser son, _to die_, or “to kick the bucket.” BILLE, _f._ (thieves), _money_, or “pieces” (from billon); (popular) _head_, “tibby,” “block,” “nut,” “canister,” “chump,” “costard,” “attic,” &c.; ---- à châtaigne, _grotesque head_ (it is the practice in France to carve chestnuts into grotesque heads); ---- de billard, _bald pate_, “bladder of lard;” ---- de bœuf, _chitterling_. BILLEMON, BILLEMONT, _m._ (thieves’), _bank-note_, “soft,” “rag,” or “flimsy.” BILLEOZ (Breton), _money_. BILLEOZI (Breton), _to pay_. BILLER (thieves’), _to pay_, “to dub.” BILLET, _m._ (popular), direct pour Charenton, _absinthe taken neat_. Prendre un ---- de parterre, _to fall_, “to come a cropper.” Je vous en fous or fiche mon ----, _I assure you it is a fact_, “on my Davy,” “’pon my sivvy,” or “no flies.” BILLEZ (Breton), _girl_; _peasant woman_. BINCE, _m._ (thieves’), _knife_, “chive.” Malheur aux pantres de province, Souvent lardé d’un coup de bince, Le micheton nu se sauvait. =RICHEPIN=, _Gueux de Paris_. BINELLE, _f._ (popular), _bankruptcy_. BINELLIER, _m._ (popular), _bankrupt_, “brosier.” BINELLOPHE, _f._ (popular), _fraudulent bankruptcy_. BINETTE, _f._ (familiar), _face_, “phiz;” ---- à la désastre, _gloomy face_. Prendre la ---- à quelqu’un, _to take one’s portrait_. Quelle sale ----, _what an ugly face!_ _a regular_ “knocker face.” Une drôle de ----, _queer face_. BINÔMES, _chums working together at the Ecole Polytechnique_. It is customary for students to pair off for work. BINWIO (Breton), _male organs of generation_. Literally _tools_.