Slang and its analogues past and present, volume 3 [of 7] : $b A dictionary, historical and comparative, of the heterodox speech of all classes of society for more than three hundred years. With synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, etc.Henley, William Ernest
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Slang and its analogues past and present, volume 3 [of 7] : $b A dictionary, historical and comparative, of the heterodox speech of all classes of society for more than three hundred years. With synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, etc.
Henley, William Ernest
English language -- Slang -- Dictionaries; Slang -- Dictionaries
French Synonyms.—Donner un pont à faucher (also, thieves’ = to lay a
trap); dindonner (popular: from dindon = a gull, a gobbler); battre à
la Parisienne (thieves’: = to cheat; to come the cockney); se ficher de
la fiole, or de la bobine, de quelqu’un (popular: to get on with it,
i.e., to try to fool); envoyer chercher le parapluie de l’escouade
(military: parapluie de l’escouade = the squad’s umbrella: to send on a
fool’s errand; cf., to send for pigeon’s milk, etc.); la faire à
quelqu’un (popular); faucher (thieves’ = to best); enfoncer (familiar:
to let in: also to surpass); cabasser (popular); monter des couleurs,
le Job, or un schtosse (= to do up brown); faire le coup, or monter le
coup, à quelqu’un (popular: = to take a rise); bouffer la botte
(military: = to sell (q.v.) or bilk, as a woman refusing congress after
receiving the socket-money (q.v.) in advance); bouler (popular: also to
whop (q.v.)); être l’autre (popular: = to get left (q.v.)); mettre dans
le sac (thieves’: = to bag, i.e., to trap); coller or poser un lapin
(popular: = to make a hare of (q.v.); also more generally, to bilk
(q.v.)); emblémer (thieves’: = to stick); faire voir le tour (popular:
= to show how it’s done; connaitre le tour = to know the game); faire
la queue à quelqu’un (popular: = to pull one’s leg); tirer la carotte
(thieves’); canarder (popular: = to bring down); empaler (popular: = to
stick); passer des curettes (popular: = to befool); monter une gaffe
(popular: gaffe = a joke, a hoax); jobarder (popular: job = simpleton,
and is the same as jobelin); mener en bateau un pante pour le refaire
(thieves’: = to take a man on); monter un bateau (popular); promener
quelqu’un (popular: cf., to take to town); compter des mistoufles
(fam.: mistoufle = a scurvy trick); gourrer (popular: = to bosh);
affluer (from flouer = to cheat, to diddle); rouster (popular and
thieves’); affûter (thieves’ = to run down, also to make unlawful
profits); bouler (popular); juiffer (popular = to Jew); pigeonner
(popular to pluck a pigeon (q.v.)); flancher (popular = to kid (q.v.));
faire la barbe (popular = to shave (q.v.)); monter or hisser un gandin
(thieves’ = literally to hoist a swell); fourrer or mettre dedans
(popular = to take in and do for); planter un chou (fam.); être marron
(popular); interver dans les vannes (= to let oneself be sucked-up);
monter un godan à quelqu’un (popular); griller quelqu’un (popular = to
cuckold); passer en lunette (popular); goujonner (i.e., to hook like a
gudgeon); fourguer (thieves’ = also to fence (q.v.)); pousser une
blague (popular = to cram); paqueliner (thieves’); se baucher
(thieves’); balancer (popular).
German Synonyms.—Zinkennen an Almoni peloni (= to send one after Cheeks
the Marine [q.v.]. Almoni and peloni are used mockingly in combination
and also singly for a non-existent person); anbeulen (= to fool);
jemanden arbeiten (= to haze, to cram); bekaspern, or bekaschpern, or
beschwatzen (= to fool: from Heb. kosaw = to cheat).
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