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
BLEUE (familiar), elle est ---- celle-là; en voilà une de ----; je la
trouve ----, _refers to anything incredible, disappointing, annoying,
hard to stomach_. Une colère ----, _violent rage_.
BLÉZIMARDER (theatrical), _to interrupt an actor_.
BLOC, _m._, _military cell_, _prison_, “mill,” “Irish theatre,”
“jigger.”
BLOCKAUS, _m._ (military), _shako_.
BLOND, _m._ (popular), beau ----, _man who is neither fair nor
handsome_; (thieves’) _the sun_.
BLONDE, _f._ (popular), _bottle of white wine_; _sweetheart_,
or “jomer;” _glass of ale at certain cafés_, “brune” _being the
denomination for porter_.
BLOQUÉ, _adj._ (printers’), être ---- à la banque, _to receive no pay_.
BLOQUER (military), _to imprison_, _confine_; (popular) _to sell_, _to
forsake_; (printers’) _to replace temporarily one letter by another_,
_to use a_ “turned sort.”
BLOQUIR (popular), _to sell_.
BLOT, _m._ (popular and thieves’), _price_; _affair_; _concern in
anything_; _share_, or “_whack_.” Ça fait mon ----, _that suits me_.
Nib dans mes blots, _that is not my affair_; _that does not suit me_.
L’turbin c’est bon pour qui qu’est mouche,
A moi, il fait nib dans mes blots.
=RICHEPIN=, _Chanson des Gueux_.
BLOUMARD, _m._, BLOUME, _f._ (popular), _hat_, “tile.”
BLOUSE, _f._ (familiar), _the working classes_. Mettre quelqu’un dans
la ----, _to imprison, or cause one to fall into a snare_. Une blouse
is properly _a billiard pocket_.
BLOUSIER, _m._ (familiar), _cad_, “rank outsider.”
BOBE, _m._ (thieves’), _watch_, “tattler.” Faire le ----, _to ease a
drunkard of his watch_, “to claim a canon’s red toy.”
BOBÊCHON, _m._ (popular), _head_, “nut.” Se monter le ----, _to be
enthusiastic_.
BOBELINS, _m. pl._ (popular), _boots_, “hock-dockies,” or
“trotter-cases.” See RIPATONS.
BOBINASSE, _f._ (popular), _head_, “block.”
BOBINE, _f._ (popular), _face_, “mug,” (old word bobe, _grimace_). Une
sale ----, _ugly face_. Plus de fil sur la ----. See AVOIR. Se ficher
de la ---- à quelqu’un, _to laugh at one_.
Un cocher passe, je l’appelle,
Et j’lui dis: dites donc l’ami;
V’là deux francs, j’prends vot’ berline
Conduisez-moi Parc Monceau.
Deux francs! tu t’fiches d’ma bobine,
Va donc, eh! fourneau!
_Parisian Song_.
BOBINO. See BOBE.
BOBONNE, for bonne, _nursery-maid_; _servant girl_, or “slavey.”
BOBOSSE, _f._ (popular), _humpback_, “lord.”
BOBOTTIER, _m._ (popular), _one who complains apropos of nothing_. From
bobo, _a slight ailment_.
BOC, _m._ (popular), _house of ill-fame_, “nanny-shop.”
BOCAL, _m._ (popular), _lodgings_, “crib;” _stomach_, “bread basket.”
Se coller quelque chose dans le ----, _to eat_. Se rincer le ----, _to
drink_, “to wet one’s whistle.” (Thieves’) Bocal, _pane_, _glass_.
BOCARD, _m._ (popular), _café_; _house of ill-fame_, “nanny-shop;” ----
panné, _small coffee-shop_.
BOCARI, _m._ (thieves’), _the town of Beaucaire_.
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