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
BONNET, _m._, _secret covenant among printers_.
Espèce de ligue offensive et défensive que forment quelques
compositeurs employés depuis longtemps dans une maison et
qui ont tous, pour ainsi dire la tête sous le même bonnet.
Rien de moins fraternel que le bonnet. Il fait la pluie
et le beau temps dans un atelier, distribue les mises en
page et les travaux les plus avantageux à ceux qui en font
partie.--=E. BOUTMY=, _Argot des Typographes_.
(Thieves’) ---- carré, _judge_, or “cove with the jazey;” ---- vert
à perpète, _one sentenced to penal servitude for life_, or “lifer;”
(popular) ---- de coton, _lumbering, weak man_, or “sappy;” _mean
man_, or “scurf;” ---- de nuit sans coiffe, _man of a melancholy
disposition_, or “croaker;” ---- d’évêque, _rump of a fowl_, or
“parson’s nose.” (Familiar) Bonnet, _small box at theatres_; ----
jaune, _twenty-franc coin_; (military) ---- de police, _recruit_, or
“Johnny raw.”
BONNETEAU, _m._, jeu de ----, _card-sharping game_; _three-card trick_.
BONNETEUR, _m._, _card-sharper_, or “broadsman.”
BONNICHON, _m._ (popular), _working girl’s cap_.
BONO (popular), _good_, _middling_.
BONS, _m._ (military), la sonnerie des ---- de tabac, (ironical)
_trumpet call for those confined to barracks_.
BORDÉ (cocottes’), être ----, _to have renounced the pleasures of
love_, “_sua sponte_,” _or otherwise_. Literally _to be lying in bed
with the bed-clothes tucked in_.
BORDÉE, _f._ (familiar and popular), _unlawful absence_. Tirer
une ----, _to absent oneself for some amusement of a questionable
character_; _to go_ “on the booze.”
La paie de grande quinzaine emplissait le trottoir d’une
bousculade de gouapeurs tirant une bordée.--=ZOLA.=
Bordée de coups de poings, _rapid delivery of blows_, or “fibbing.”
BORDEL, _m._ (popular), _small faggot_; _tools_; ---- ambulant,
_hackney coach_.
BORDELIER (popular), _libertine_, “molrower,” or “mutton-monger.”
BORGNE, _m._ (cads’), _breech_, or “blind cheek;” _ace of cards_; ----
de cœur, _ace of hearts_, “pig’s eye.”
BORGNER (cads’), _to look_.
BORGNIAT (popular), _one-eyed man_, “boss-eyed.”
BORNE DE VIEUX OINT, _f._ (popular), _bladder of lard_.
BOS (Breton), _well_; _well done!_
BOSCO, BOSCOT, BOSCOTTE, _stunted man or woman_; _hunchback_.
BOSSE, _f._ (familiar), _excessive eating and drinking_; _excess of
any kind_. Se donner, se flanquer une ----, _to get a good fill_, “a
tightener.” Se faire des bosses, _to amuse oneself amazingly_. Se
donner, se flanquer une ---- de rire, _to split with laughter_. Rouler
sa ----, _to go along_. Tomber sur la ----, _to attack_, to “pitch
into.”
BOSSELARD, _m._ (familiar), _silk hat_, “tile.”
BOSSER (popular), _to laugh_; _to amuse oneself_.
BOSSMAR, _m._ (thieves’), _hunchback_, “lord.”
BOSSOIRS, _m. pl._ (sailors’), _bosoms_. Gabarit sans ----, _thin
breasts_.
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