BOCHE, _m._ (popular), _rake_, “rip,” “molrower,” or “beard splitter.” Tête de ----, _an expression applied to a dull-witted person_. Literally _wooden head_. Also _a German_. BOCKER (familiar), _to drink bocks_. BOCOTTER, _to grumble_; _to mutter_. Literally _to bleat like a_ bocquotte, _goat_. BOCQUE, BOGUE, _m._ (thieves’), _watch_, “tattler.” BOCSON (common), _house of ill-fame_, “nanny-shop;” (thieves’) _lodgings_, “dossing-ken.” Montron ouvre ta lourde, Si tu veux que j’aboule Et piausse en ton bocson. =VIDOCQ=, _Mémoires_. BŒUF, _m._ (popular), _king of playing cards_; _shoemaker’s workman, or journeyman tailor, who does rough jobs_. Avoir son ----, _to get angry_, “to nab the rust.” Etre le ----, _to work without profit_. Se mettre dans le ----, _to be reduced in circumstances_, an allusion to bœuf bouilli, very plain fare. (Printers’) Bœuf, _composition of a few lines done for an absentee_. Bœuf, _adj._, _extraordinary_, “stunning;” _enormous_; synonymous of “chic” at the Ecole Saint-Cyr; (cads’) _pleasant_. BŒUFIER, _m._ (popular), _man of choleric disposition_, _one prone_ “to nab his rust.” BOFFETE, _f._, _box on the ear_, “buck-horse.” From the old word buffet. BOG, or BOGUE, _f._ (thieves’), _watch_; ---- en jonc, ---- d’orient, _gold watch_, “red ’un,” or “red toy;” ---- en plâtre, _silver watch_, “white ’un.” J’enflaque sa limace. Son bogue, ses frusques, ses passes. =VIDOCQ.= BOGUISTE (thieves’), _watch-maker_. BOIRE (printers’), de l’encre _is said of one who on joining a party of boon companions finds all the liquor has been disposed of_. He will then probably exclaim, Est-ce que vous croyez que je vais boire de l’encre?--=BOUTMY.= (Familiar) ---- dans la grande tasse, _to be drowned_; (actors’) ---- du lait, _to obtain applause_; ---- une goutte, _to be hissed_, “to be goosed.” BOIS, _m._ (cads’), pourri, _tinder_; (thieves’) ---- tortu, _vine_. (Theatrical) Avoir du ----, or mettre du ----, _to have friends distributed here and there among the spectators, whose applause excites the enthusiasm of the audience. Literally to put on fuel_. BOISSEAU, _m._ (popular), _shako_; _tall hat_, “chimney pot.” For synonyms see TUBARD; _litre wine bottle_. BOISSONNER (popular), _to drink heavily_, “to swill.” BOISSONNEUR (popular), _assiduous frequenter of wine-shop_, a “lushington.” BOISSONNIER (popular), _one who drinks heavily_, a “lushington.”