BOTTE, _f._ (popular), de neuf jours, or en gaîté, _boot out at the sole_. Jours, literally _days_, _chinks_. Du jus de ----, _kicks_. (Sailors’) Jus de ---- premier brin, _rum of the first quality_. BOTTER (popular), _to suit_. Ça me botte, _that just suits me, just the thing for me_. Botter, _to kick one’s breech_, or “to toe one’s bum,” “to root,” or “to land a kick.” BOTTIER (popular), _one who is fond of kicking_. BOUANT, _m._ (cads’), _pig_, or “angel.” From boue, _mud_. BOUBANE, _f._ (thieves’), _wig_, “periwinkle.” BOUBOUAR (Breton), _ox_; _cattle in general_. BOUBOUERIEN (Breton), _threshing machine_. BOUBOUILLE (popular), _bad cookery_. BOUC, _m._ (popular), _husband whose wife is unfaithful to him_, a “cuckold.” Properly _he-goat_; (familiar) _beard on chin_, “goatee.” BOUCAN, _m._, _great uproar_, “shindy.” J’ai ma troupe, je distribue les rôles, j’organise la claque.... J’établis la contre-partie pour les interruptions et le boucan.--=MACÉ.= (Popular) Donner un ---- à quelqu’un, _to give a blow or_ “clout” _to one_. BOUCANADE, _f._ (thieves’), _bribing or_ “greasing” _a witness_. Coquer la ----, _to bribe_. Literally _to treat to drink_. In Spain wine is inclosed in goatskins, hence the expression. BOUCANER (popular), _to make a great uproar_; _to stink_. BOUCANEUR, _m._ (popular), _one fond of women, who goes_ “molrowing,” or a “mutton-monger.” BOUCANIÈRE, _f._ (popular), _woman too fond of men_. BOUCARD, _m._ (thieves’), _shop_, “chovey.” BOUCARDIER, _m._ (thieves’), _thief who breaks into shops_. BOUCHE-L’ŒIL, _m._ (prostitutes’), _a five, ten, or twenty-franc piece_. BOUCHER (thieves’), _surgeon_, “nimgimmer;” (familiar) ---- un trou, _to pay part of debt_; (popular) ---- la lumière, _to give a kick in the breech_, “to hoof one’s bum,” or “to land a kick.” Lumière, properly _touch-hole_. BOUCHE-TROU, _m._ The best scholars in all University colleges are allowed to compete at a yearly examination called “grand concours.” The “bouche-trou” is one who acts as a substitute for anyone who for some reason or other finds himself prevented from competing. (Literary) _Literary production used as a makeshift_; (theatrical) _actor whose functions are to act as a substitute in a case of emergency_. BOUCHON, _m._ (thieves’), _purse_, “skin,” or “poge;” (popular) _a younger brother_; _bottle of wine with a waxed cork_; _quality, kind_, “kidney.” Etre d’un bon ----, _to be an amusing, good-humoured fellow_, or a “brick.” S’asseoir sur le ----, _to sit on the bare ground_. BOUCLAGE, _m._ (thieves’), _handcuffs_, or “bracelets;” _bonds_; _imprisonment_. BOUCLÉ (thieves’), _imprisoned_, or “slowed.” BOUCLER (thieves’), _to shut_, “to dub;” _to imprison_. Bouclez la lourde! _shut the door!_ BOUCLE ZOZE, _m._ (thieves’), _brown bread_.