BOUDER (literally _to be sulky_) _is said of a player who does not call for fresh dominoes when he has the option of doing so_; (popular) ---- à l’ouvrage, _to be lazy_; ---- au feu, _to show fear_; ---- aux dominos, _to be minus several teeth_. BOUDIN, _m._ (thieves’), _bolt_; _stomach_. BOUDINÉ, _m._ (familiar), _swell_, or “masher.” At the time the expression came into use, dandies sported tight or horsey-looking clothes, which imparted to the wearer some vague resemblance with a boudin, or _large sausage_. For list of synonymous expressions, see GOMMEUX. BOUDINS, _m. pl._ (popular), _fat fingers and hands_. BOUEUX, _m._ (popular), _scavenger_. BOUFFARD, _m._ (popular), _smoker_. BOUFFARDE, _f._ (popular), _pipe_, or “cutty.” BOUFFARDER (popular), _to smoke_, to “blow a cloud.” BOUFFARDIÈRE, _f._ (popular), _an estaminet, that is, a café where smoking is allowed_; _chimney_. BOUFFE, _f._ (popular), _box on the ear_, “buckhorse.” BOUFFE-LA-BALLE, _m._, _gormandizer_, _or_ “stodger;” _man with a fat, puffed-up, dumpling face_. BOUFFER (military), la botte, _to be bamboozled by a woman_, in what circumstances it is needless to say. (Popular) Bouffer, _to eat_. Se ---- le nez, _to fight_. BOUFFETER (popular), _to chat_. BOUFFEUR, _m._ (popular), de blanc, _prostitute’s bully_, “pensioner;” ---- de kilomètres, _a nickname for the “Chasseurs de Vincennes,” a picked body of rifles who do duty as skirmishers and scouts, and who are noted for their agility_. BOUFFIASSE, _m._ (popular), _man with fat, puffed-up cheeks_. BOUGIE, _f._ (popular), _walking-stick_; _a blind man’s stick_; ---- grasse, _candle_. BOUGRE, _m._ (popular), _stalwart and plucky man, one who is_ “spry;” ---- à poils, _dauntless, resolute man_. Bon ----, _a good fellow_, a “brick.” Mauvais ----, _man of a snarling, evil-minded disposition_. The word is used often with a disparaging sense, Bougre de cochon, _you dirty pig_; ---- de serin, _you ass_. Littré derives the word bougre from Bulgarus, _Bulgarian_. The heretic Albigeois, who shared the religious ideas of some of the Bulgarians, received the name of “bougres.” BOUGREMENT (popular), _extremely_. C’est ---- difficile, _it is awfully hard_. BOUI, _m._ (popular), _house of ill-fame_, “nanny-shop.” BOUIBOUI, BOUISBOUIS, _m._ _puppet_; _small theatre_; _low music-hall_; _gambling place_. BOUIF, _m._ (popular), _conceited_ “priggish” _person_; _bad workman_. BOUILLABAISSE (popular), _confused medley of things, people, or ideas_. Properly _a Provençal dish made up of all kinds of fish boiled together, with spicy seasoning, garlic, &c._ BOUILLANTE, _f._ (soldiers’), _soup_. BOUILLIE, _f._ (popular), pour les chats, _unsuccessful undertaking_. Faire de la ---- pour les chats, _to do any useless thing_.