Chapter D (1)

DA (popular), mon ----, _my father_, “my daddy.” Ma ----, _my mother_, “my mammy.”

DAB, dabe, _m._ (thieves’), _father_, or “dade;” _master_; _a god_.

Mercure seul tu adoreras,
Comme dabe de l’entrottement.

=VIDOCQ.=

Le ---- de la cigogne, _the procureur général_, or _public prosecutor_. Grand ----, _king_.

Ma largue part pour Versailles...
Pour m’faire défourailler.
Mais grand dab qui se fâche,
Dit par mon caloquet,
J’li ferai danser une danse
Où i n’y a pas d’plancher.

=V. HUGO.=

DABE, _m._ (popular), d’argent, _speculum_. (Prostitutes’) Cramper avec le ---- d’argent, _to be subjected to a compulsory medical examination of a peculiar nature_.

DABÉRAGE, _m._ (popular), _talking_, “jawing.”

DABÉRER (popular), _to talk_, “to jaw.”

DABESSE, _f._ (thieves’), _mother_; _queen_.

DABICULE, _m._ (thieves’), _the master’s son_.

DABOT, DABMUCHE, _m._ (thieves’), _the prefect of police_, or _head of the Paris police_; _a drudge_. Formerly it signified an unlucky player _who has to pay all his opponents_.

DABUCAL, _adj._ (thieves’), _royal_.

DABUCHE, _f._ (thieves’), _mother_; _grandmother_, or “mami;” _nurse_.

DABUCHETTE, _f._ (thieves’), _young mother_; _mother-in-law_.

DABUCHON, _m._ (popular), _father_, “daddy.”

DACHE, _m._ (thieves’), _devil_, “ruffin,” or “black spy;” (military) _hairdresser to the Zouaves_, _a mythical individual_. Allez donc raconter cela à ----, _tell that to the “Marines“_.

DADA, _m._ (military), aller à ----, _to perform the act of coition_, or “chivalry.” The old poet Villon termed this “chevaulcher.”

DAIL, _m._ (thieves’), je n’entrave que le ----, _I do not understand_.

DAIM, _m._ (popular), _swell_, or “gorger,” see GOMMEUX; _fool_, or “duffer;” _gullible fellow_, “gulpy;” ---- huppé, _rich man_, _one with plenty of_ “tin.”

DALE, DALLE, _f._ (thieves’), _money_, “quids,” or “pieces,” see QUIBUS.

Faut pas aller chez Paul Niquet,
Ça vous consomme tout vot’ pauv’ dale.

=P. DURAND.=

_Five-franc piece_; (popular) _throat_, or “red lane;” ---- du cou, _mouth_, “rattle-trap.” Se rincer, or s’arroser la ----, _to drink_, “to have something damp.” See RINCER.

J’ai du sable à l’amygdale.
Ohé! ho! buvons un coup,
Une, deux, trois, longtemps, beaucoup!
Il faut s’arroser la dalle
Du cou.

=RICHEPIN=, _Gueux de Paris_.

DALZAR, _m._ (popular), _breeches_, “kicks,” “sit-upons,” or “kicksies.”

DAME, _f._ (popular), blanche, _bottle of white wine_; ---- du lac, _woman of indifferent character who frequents the purlieus of the Grand Lac at the Bois de Boulogne_.

DAMER (popular), une fille, _to seduce a girl, to make a woman of her_.

DANAÏDES, _f._ (thieves’), faire jouer les ----, _to thrash a girl_.

DANDILLER (thieves’), _to ring_; _to chink_. Le carme dandille dans sa fouillouse, _the money chinks in his pocket_.

DANDINAGE, _m._, DANDINETTE, _f._ (popular), _thrashing_, “hiding.”

DANDINE, _f._ (popular), _blow_, “wipe,” “clout,” “dig,” “bang,” or “cant.” Encaisser des dandines, _to receive blows_.

DANDINER (popular), _to thrash_, “to lick.” See VOIE.

DANDINETTE. See DANDINAGE.

DANKIER (Breton), _prostitute_.

DANSE, _f._ (familiar), du panier, _unlawful profits on purchases_. Flanquer une ---- à quelqu’un, _to thrash or_ “lick” _one_. See VOIE.

DANSER (popular), _to lose money_; _to pay_, “to shell out.” Il l’a dansée de vingt balles, _he had to pay twenty francs_. Danser devant le buffet, _to be fasting_, “to cry cupboard;” ---- tout seul, _to have an offensive breath_. Faire ---- quelqu’un, _to make one stand treat_; _to make one pay_, or “fork out;” _to thrash_, “to wallop.” See VOIE. La ----, _to be thrashed_; _to be dismissed from one’s employment_, “to get the sack.”

DANSEUR, _m._ (popular), _turkey cock_.

DARDANT, _m._ (thieves’), _love_.

Luysard estampillait six plombes.
Mezigo roulait le trimard,
Et, jusqu’au fond du coquemart,
Le dardant riffaudait ses lombes.

=RICHEPIN=, _Gueux de Paris_.

DARDELLE, _f._ (urchins’), _penny_ (gros sou).

DARIOLE, _f._ (popular), _slap or blow in the face_, “clout,” “bang,” or “wipe.” Properly _a kind of pastry_.

DARIOLEUR, _m._ (popular), _inferior sort of pastry cook_.

DARON, _m._ (thieves’), _father_, “dade,” or “dadi;” _gentleman_, “nib cove;” ---- de la raille, or de la rousse, _prefect of police, head of the Paris police_.

DARONNE, _f._ (thieves’), _mother_; ---- du dardant, _Venus_; ---- du grand Aure, _holy Virgin_; ---- du mec des mecs, _mother of God_.

DATTES, _f. pl._ (popular), des ----! _contemptuous expression of refusal_; might be rendered by “you be hanged!” See NÈFLES.

Elle se r’tourne, lui dit: des dattes!
Tu peux t’fouiller vieux pruneau!
Tu n’tiens plus sur tes deux pattes.
Va donc, eh! fourneau!

_Parisian Song._

DAUBE, _f._ (popular), _cook_, or “dripping.”

DAUBEUR, _m._ (popular), _blacksmith_.

DAUCHE (popular), mon ----, _my father_; ma ----, _my mother_; “my old man, my old woman.”

DAUFFE, _f._, DAUFFIN, DAUPHIN, _m._ (thieves’), _short crowbar_. Termed also “l’enfant, Jacques, biribi, sucre de pommes, rigolo,” and in the language of English housebreakers, that is, the “busters and screwsmen,” “the stick, James, Jemmy.”

DAUPHIN, _m._ (popular), _girl’s bully_, “ponce,” see POISSON; (thieves’) _short crowbar used by housebreakers_, “jemmy.”

DAVID, _m._ (popular), _silk cap_. From the maker’s name.

DAVONE, _f._ (thieves’), _plum_.

DE (familiar), se pousser du ----, _to place the word “de” before one’s name to make it appear a nobleman’s_.

DÉ, _m._ (popular), or ---- à boire, _drinking glass_. Dé! _yes_. Properly _thimble_.

DÉBÂCLE, _f._ (thieves’), _accouchement_. Properly _breaking up_, _collapse_.

DÉBÂCLER (thieves’ and popular), _to open_; _to force open_; ---- la lourde, _open the door_.

DÉBÂCLEUSE, _f._ (thieves’ and popular), _midwife_. Termed also “tâte-minette, Madame Tire-monde.”

DÉBAGOULER (popular), _to speak_, “to jaw.”

DÉBALINCHARD, _m._ (popular), _one who saunters lazily about_.

DÉBALLAGE, _m._ (popular), _undress_; _getting out of bed_; _dirty linen_. Etre floué or volé au ----, _to be grievously disappointed with a woman’s figure when she divests herself of her garments_. Gagner au ----, _to appear to better advantage when undressed_.

DÉBALLER (popular), _to strip_. Se ----, _to undress oneself_.

DÉBANQUER (gamesters’), _to ruin the gaming bank_.

DÉBARBOUILLER (popular), à la potasse, _to strike one in the face_, “to give one a bang in the mug;” _to clear up some matter_.

DÉBARDEUR, _m._, DÉBARDEUSE, _f._ (familiar), _dancers at fancy balls dressed as a_ débardeur _or lumper_.

DÉBARQUER (popular), se ----, _to give up_; _to relinquish anything already undertaken_, to “cave in.”

DÉBAUCHER (popular), _to dismiss_. Etre débauché, _to get the sack_. The reverse of embaucher, _to engage_.

DÉBECQUETER (popular), _to vomit_, “to cast up accounts,” “to shoot the cat.”

DÉBECTANT (popular), _annoying_; _tiresome_; _dirty_; _disgusting_.

DÉBINAGE, _m._ (familiar), _slandering_; _running down_. From débiner, _to talk ill_, _to depreciate_.

DÉBINER (popular), _to depreciate_; ---- le truc, _to disclose a secret_; _to explode a dodge, or fraud_.

Parbleu! je n’ignore pas ce que peuvent dire les blagueurs
pour débiner le truc de ces fausses paysannes.--=RICHEPIN=,
_Le Pavé_.

Se ---- des fumerons, _to run away_, “to leg it.” Se ----, _to abuse one another_, “to slang one another;” _to run away_, “to brush,” see PATATROT; _to grow weak_.

DÉBINEUR, _m._, DÉBINEUSE, _f._ (popular), _one who talks ill of people_; _one who depreciates people or things_.

DÉBLAYER (theatrical), _to curtail portions of a part_; _to hurry through a performance_.

A l’Opéra, ce soir ... on déblaye à bras raccourci: vous
savez que déblayer signifie écourter.--=P. MAHALIN.=

DÉBLOQUER (military), _to cancel an order of arrest_.

DÉBONDER (popular), _to ease oneself_; _to go to_ “West Central,” _or to the_ “crapping ken.” See MOUSCAILLER.

DÉBORDER (popular), _to vomit_, “to cast up accounts,” or “to shoot the cat.”

DÉBOUCLER (thieves’), _to open_; _to set a prisoner at liberty_.

DÉBOUCLEUR, _m._ (thieves’), de lourdes, _a housebreaker_, “buster,” or “screwsman.”

DÉBOULER (popular), _to be brought to childbed_, “to be in the straw;” _to arrive_, or “to crop up.”

DÉBOULONNÉ (popular), être ----, _to be dull-witted, or to be a_ “dead-alive.”

DÉBOULONNER (popular), la colonne à quelqu’un, _to thrash one soundly_, “to knock one into a cocked hat.” See VOIE.

DÉBOURRÉ (horse-dealers’), cheval ----, _horse which suddenly loses its fleshy appearance artificially imparted by rascally horse-dealers_.

DÉBOURRER (popular), _to educate one_, “to put one up to;” ---- sa pipe, _to ease oneself_, or “to go to the chapel of ease.” See MOUSCAILLER. Se ----, _to become knowing_, “up to a dodge or two,” or a “leary bloke.”

DÉBOUSCAILLER (popular), _to black one’s boots_.

DÉBOUSCAILLEUR (popular), _shoeblack_.

DÉBRIDER (thieves’), _to open_; ---- les chasses, _to open one’s eyes_; (popular) ---- la margoulette, _to eat_, “to grub.” See MASTIQUER.

DÉBRIDOIR, _m._ (thieves’), _key_; _skeleton key_, “screw,” or “twirl.”

DÉBROUILLARD, _m._ (popular), _one who has a mind fertile in resource, in contrivances to get on in the world, or to extricate himself out of difficulties_, a “rum mizzler.” Also used as an adjective. Literally _one who gets out of the fog_.

DÉBROUILLER (theatrical), un rôle, _to make oneself thoroughly acquainted with the nature of one’s part before learning it, to realize fully the character one has to impersonate_.

DÉCADENER (thieves’), _to unchain_.

DÉCALITRE, _m._ (popular), _top hat_, “stove-pipe.” See TUBARD.

DÉCAMPILLER (popular), _to decamp_, “to bunk.”

DÉCANAILLER (popular), se ----, _to rise from a state of abjection and poverty._

DÉCANILLAGE, _m._ (popular), _departure_; _moving one’s furniture_; ---- à la manque, _moving after midsummer term_.

En juillet le déménagement est une fête. Mais en octobre,
n, i, ni, c’est fini de rire: le déménagement est funèbre
et s’appelle le décanillage à la manque.--=RICHEPIN=, _Le
Pavé_.

DÉCARCASSÉ, _adj._ (theatrical), _is said of a bad play_.

DÉCARCASSER (popular), quelqu’un, _to thrash one soundly_, “to knock one into a cocked hat.” See VOIE. Se ----, _to give oneself much trouble_; _to move about actively, fussily_. Décarcasse-toi donc, rossard! _look alive, you lazy bones!_ Se ---- le boisseau, _to torture one’s brains_; _to fret grievously_.

DÉCARRADE, _f._ (thieves’), _general scampering off_; _departure_.

DÉCARRE, _f._ (thieves’), _release from prison_.

Décarrement, _m._ (thieves’ and popular), _escape_.

DÉCARRER (thieves’), _to leave prison_; _to run away_, “to guy.” See PATATROT.

On les emmène tous et pendant ce temps-là le gueusard
décarre avec son camarade.--=VIDOCQ.=

Also _to come out_.

Nous allons nous cacher dans l’allée en face, nous verrons
décarrer les messières.--=E. SUE.=

Décarrer à la bate, _to escape_; ---- cher, _to be released after having done one’s_ “time;” ---- de belle, _to be released without trial_; ---- de la geôle, _to be released on the strength of an order of discharge_.

DÉCARTONNER (popular), se ----, _to grow old_; _to grow weak_.

DÉCATI, _adj._ (popular), _no longer young or handsome_; _seedy, faded_. Elle a l’air bien ----, _she has a faded, worn appearance_.

DÉCATIR (popular), se ----, _to get faded, worn, seedy_.

DÉCAVAGE, _m._ (familiar), _circumstances of a gamester who has lost all his money, or who has_ “blewed” _it_. From décavé, _ruined gamester_.

DÉCEMBRAILLARD, _m._, _opprobrious epithet applied to Bonapartists_. An allusion to the coup d’état of the 2nd December, 1851, when Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, then President of the Republic, threw into prison dissentient members of parliament and generals who refused to join in the conspiracy, shelled the boulevards, shot down hundreds of harmless loungers, and transported or exiled 50,000 republicans or monarchists.

DÉCEMBRISADE, _f._, _an act similar to the coup d’état of 2nd December, 1851_. See DÉCEMBRAILLARD.

DÉCHANTER (popular), _to recover from an error_; _to be crestfallen after one’s illusions have been dispelled_; _to come down a peg or two_.

DÉCHARD, _m._ (popular), _needy_; _man who is_ “hard up.”

DÈCHE, _f._ (popular), _neediness_. Etre en ----, _to be_ “hard up” _for cash_; “to be at low tide.”

DÉCHEUX, _m._ (popular), _needy man_, “quisby.”

DÉCHIRÉE, _f._ (popular), elle n’est pas trop ----, _is said of a woman who is yet attractive in spite of years_.

DÉCHIRER (military), de la toile, _to perform platoon firing_; ---- la cartouche, _to eat_. See MASTIQUER. (Popular) Déchirer son faux-col, son habit, son tablier, _to die_. (Ironical) Ne pas se ----, _to have a good opinion of oneself and to show it_.

DÉCLAQUER (popular), _to open one’s heart_; _to make a clean breast of_.

DÉCLOUER (popular), _to redeem objects from pawn_, _to get objects_ “out of lug.”

DÉCOGNOIR, _m._ (popular), _nose_, “boko,” or “smeller.” See MORVIAU.

DÉCOLLER (popular), _to leave a place_; _to leave one’s employment_; ---- son billard, _to die_. See PIPE. Se ----, _to fail_; _to grow old, rickety_; _to die_, “to kick the bucket.”

DÉCOMPTE, _m._ (military), _mortal wound_. Recevoir son ----, _to die_; see PIPE; “to lose the number of one’s mess.”

DÉCORS, _m. pl._ (freemasons’), _ornaments_, _insignia_.

DÉCOUCHEUR (military), _soldier who is in the habit of stopping away without leave_.

DÉCOUDRE (familiar), en ----, _to fight either in a duel or with the natural weapons_.

DÉCOUVRIR (popular), la peau de quelqu’un, _to make one say things which he would rather have left unsaid_; “to pump one;” “to worm” _secrets out of one_.

DÉCRAMPONNER (familiar), se ----, _to get rid of a troublesome person_.

Pourquoi ai-je quitté Paris? Pour me décramponner tout à
fait de cet imbécile qui, panné, décavé, commençait à me
porter la guigne.--=RICHEPIN=, _La Glu_.

DÉCRASSER (popular), quelqu’un, _to corrupt one_, “to put one up to snuff;” (prostitutes’) ---- un homme, _to clean a man out of his money_, and in thieves’ language, _to rob a man_. See GRINCHIR.

DÉCRAVATER (popular), ses propos, _to use language of an objectionable character_, or “blue talk.”

DÉCROCHER (popular), _to take articles out of pawn_, or “out of lug;” (military) _to shoot down_; (thieves’) _to steal handkerchiefs_, “to haul stooks;” (popular) ---- un enfant, _to bring about a miscarriage_; (familiar) ---- la timballe, _to be fortunate_, or, as the Americans term it, “to get the cake,” or “to yank the bun.” An allusion to the practice of hanging a silver cup as a prize at the top of a greasy pole.

DÉCROCHEZ-MOI-ÇA (popular), _woman’s bonnet_; _old clothes dealer_; _shop where secondhand clothes, or_ “hand-me-downs,” _are sold_.

DÉCROTTER (popular), un gigot, _to leave nothing of a leg of mutton but the bare bone_.

DÉCULOTTÉ, _m._ (popular), _bankrupt_, “brosier.”

DEDANS (familiar), fourrer or mettre quelqu’un ----, _to lock one up_; _to impose upon one_, “to bamboozle.” Se mettre ----, _to make a mistake_; _to get tipsy_. (Popular) Voir en ----, _to be tipsy_, applicable especially to those who hold soliloquies when in their cups. See POMPETTE.

DÉDÈLE, _f._ (popular), _mistress_, “moll.”

DÉDIRE (thieves’), se ---- cher, _to be at death’s door_. Properly _to repent one’s crimes_.

DÉDURAILLER (thieves’), _to remove prisoners’ irons_.

DÉFALQUER (popular), _to ease oneself_; _to go to the_ “crapping ken.” See MOUSCAILLER.

DÉFARGUER (thieves’), _to grow pale_; _to be acquitted_.

DÉFARGUEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _witness for the defence_.

DÉFENDRE (popular), sa queue, _to defend oneself_.

DÉFFARDEUR, _m._ (popular), _thief_, “cross cove.” See GRINCHE. From de and fardeau, literally _one who eases you of your burden_.

DÉFIGER (popular), _to warm_. From de and figer, _to coagulate_.

DÉFILER (popular), aller voir ---- les dragons, _to go without a dinner_. See ALLER. (Military) Défiler la parade, _to die_, “to lose the number of one’s mess.” See PIPE. (Popular) Se ----, _to run away_, “to leg it.” See PATATROT.

DÉFLEURIR (thieves’), la picouse, _to steal linen hung out to dry_, “to smug snowy.”

DÉFORMER (popular), _to break_; _to put out of gear_. Je lui ai déformé une quille, _I broke one of his legs_.

DÉFOUQUE. See DESFOUX.

DÉFOURAILLER (thieves’), _to run_, “to pad the hoof,” or “to guy;” see PATATROT; _to fall_; _to be released from jail_.

DÉFRIMOUSSER (popular), synonymous with dévisager, _to peer into one’s face_.

DÉFRUSQUER, DÉFRUSQUINER (popular), _to strip one of his clothes_. Se ----, _to undress_.

DÉGAUCHIR (thieves’), _to steal_, “to nim,” “to claim.” See GRINCHIR.

DÉGAZONNER (familiar), se ----, _to become bald_. Il a le coco tout dégazonné, _he is quite bald_. See AVOIR.

DÉGEL, _m._ (popular), _death_.

DÉGELÉ (popular), _corpse_, “cold meat.”

DÉGELÉE, _f._ (popular), _thrashing_, “walloping.”

DÉGELER (popular), se ----, _to die_, “to kick the bucket;” see PIPE; _to become knowing_. (Fencing) Dégeler son jeu, _to put spirit into one’s play_.

DÉGLINGUER (popular), _to damage_.

DÉGOBILLADE, _f._ (popular), _vomit_; _very bad liquor_, “swizzle.”

DÉGOMMADE, _f._ (popular), _old age_; _decrepit state_.

DÉGOMMAGE, _m._ (popular), _dismissal_, “the sack;” _ruin_.

DÉGOMMER (popular), quelqu’un, _to excel over one_. Literally _to dismiss one from a situation_; _to kill_. Se ----, _to grow old, faded_.

Je me rouille, je me dégomme.

=LABICHE.=

DÉGORGER (popular), _to pay_, “to fork out.”

DÉGOTTAGE, _m._ (popular), _action of surpassing one; of finding or discovering something_.

DÉGOTTER (military), _to kill_; (popular) _to surpass one_; _to find_; _to discover_.

Tiens! quoi donc que j’dégott’ dans l’noir,
Qu’est à g’noux, là-bas su’ l’trottoir?
Eh! ben, là-bas, eh! la gonzesse.

=GILL=, _La Muse à Bibi_.

DÉGOULER (popular), _to take away_; _to fall_, “to come a cropper.”

DÉGOULINAGE, _m._ (popular), _inferior drink_, “swizzle.”

DÉGOULINER (popular), _to drip_; ---- ce qu’on a sur le cœur, _to unbosom_.

DÉGOURDI, _m._ (popular), ironical, _clumsy fellow_, “stick in the mud.” Properly it has the opposite meaning.

DÉGOÛTATION, _f._ (popular), _expression of disgust_. Une ---- d’homme, _a disgusting fellow_. The expression is a favourite one of the street-walking tribe.

DÉGOÛTÉ, _adj._ (popular), ironical. N’être pas ----, _is said of one who expresses a desire of obtaining something considered by others to be too good for him; also of one who picks out for himself the most dainty bits_.

DÉGRAISSER (popular), _to steal_, “to prig,” see GRINCHIR; ---- quelqu’un, to _fleece one_. Se ----, _to grow thin_.

DÉGRIMONER (popular), se ----, _to bestir oneself_; _to struggle_; _to wriggle_.

DÉGRINGILLER (popular), _to come out_. Dégringillons de la carrée, _let us leave the room_.

DÉGRINGOLADE, _f._ (thieves’), _theft in a shop_; ---- à la flûte, _robbery committed by a street-walker_.

DÉGRINGOLER (thieves’), _to steal_, “to nim;” ---- à la carre, _to steal property from shops_. This kind of robbery is practised principally by women, and the thief is called a “bouncer.”

DÉGROSSIR (freemasons’), _to carve_.

DÉGROUPER (popular), se ----, _to separate_.

DÉGUEULARDER (thieves’), _to talk_, _to say_, “to rap.” Ne dégueularde pas sur sa fiole, _say nothing about him_.

DÉGUEULAS, DÉGUEULATIF, _adj._ (popular), _annoying_; _disgusting_.

J’conobre l’truc; ’l est dégueulas.--=RICHEPIN.= (_I know
the trade; it is disgusting._)

DÉGUEULATOIRE, _adj._ (popular), _disgusting_; _repulsive_.

DÉGUEULBITE, DÉGUEULBOCHE, _adj._ (popular), _disgusting_.

DÉGUEULER (popular), _to sing_, or “to lip.”

DÉGUEULIS, _m._ (popular), _vomit_.

DÉGUIS, _m._ (thieves’), _disguise_.

DÉGUISER (popular), se ---- en cerf, _to make off_, “to brush,” or “to leg it.” See PATATROT.

DÉJETÉ, _adj._ (popular), _weakly_; _ugly_. N’être pas trop ----, _to be still handsome_.

DÉJEÛNER, _m. and verb_ (popular), de perroquet, _biscuit dipped in wine_; (military) ---- à la fourchette, _to fight a duel_.

DÉJOSÉPHIER (popular), _to educate_, not in the better sense of the word; “to put one up to snuff.” An allusion to Madame Potiphar’s attempts on Joseph’s virtue.

DE LA BOURRACHE! (popular), _expressive of refusal_; might be rendered by “no go!” “you be blowed.” See NÈFLES.

DÉLASS. COM. (popular), _theatre of the Délassements Comiques_.

DÉLICAT ET BLOND (popular), _is said ironically of a dandy_ or “Jemmy Jessamy;” also _of an effeminate fellow who cannot bear pain or discomfort_.

DÉLICOQUENTIEUSEMENT (theatrical), _marvellously_.

DÉLIGE, _f._ (popular), for diligence, _public coach_.

DÉMANCHER (popular), se ----, _to bestir oneself_; _to give oneself much trouble_.

DÉMAQUILLER (thieves’), _to undo_.

DÉMARGER (thieves’), _to go away_; _to make off_, “to crush,” “to guy.” See PATATROT.

DÉMARQUER (literary), _to pirate others’ productions, or to alter one’s own so as to pass them off as original_.

DÉMARQUEUR, _m._ (literary), de linge, _literary pirate_.

DÉMÉNAGER (popular), _to become mad_, or “balmy;” _to die_, “to kick the bucket;” ---- à la cloche de bois, de zinc, or à la sonnette de bois, _to move one’s furniture secretly, the street door bell having been muffled so as to give no more sound than a wooden one_, “to shoot the moon;” ---- à la ficelle, _to remove one’s furniture through a window by means of a rope_; ---- par la cheminée, _to burn one’s furniture on receiving notice to quit, so as to cheat the landlord_.

DEMI-AUNE, _f._ (popular), _arm_, “bender.” Tendre la ----, _to beg_.

DEMI-CACHEMIRE, _f._ (familiar), _kept woman in a good position, but who has not yet reached the top of the ladder_.

DEMI-CASTOR, _f._, _woman of the demi-monde_, a “pretty horse-breaker,” or “tartlet.” See GADOUE.

DEMI-CERCLE, pincer au ----. See CERCLE.

DEMI-LUNE (popular), _rump_, “cheek.”

DEMI-MONDAINE, _f._ (familiar), _woman of the demi-monde_. See GADOUE.

DEMI-MONDE, _m._ (familiar), _the world of the higher class of kept women_, _of_ “pretty horsebreakers.”

DEMI-SEL, DEMI-POIL, DEMI-VERTU, _f._ (popular), _girl who has lost her maidenhead_, _her_ “ceincture,” as Villon termed it.

DEMI-STROC, _m._ (thieves’), _half a_ “setier,” _that is, one-fourth of a litre_.

DÉMOC-SOC, _m._ (familiar), _socialist_. An abbreviation for démocrate-socialiste.

DEMOISELLE, _f._ (popular), _a certain measure for wine, half a_ “monsieur;” _bottle of wine_.

DEMOISELLES, _f._ (familiar), ces ----, _euphemism for gay ladies_; ---- du bitume, du Pont Neuf, _street-walkers_.

DÉMOLIR (literary), _to criticise with harshness_, _to run down literary productions_; (popular) _to thrash soundly_, “to knock into a cocked hat,” see VOIE; _to kill_.

DÉMOLISSEUR, _m._ (literary), _sharp and violent critic_.

DÉMORFILAGE (card-sharpers’), _setting right again cards which have been marked_.

DÉMORFILER, _action of doing_ démorfilage (which see); also _to have one’s wounds cured_.

DÉMORGANER (thieves’), _to give in to one’s arguments_.

DÉMURGER (thieves’), _to leave a place_; _to be set at liberty_.

DENAILLE, _m._ (thieves’), Saint ----, _Saint-Denis, an arrondissement of Paris_.

DÉNICHEUR, _m._ (popular), de fauvettes, _one fond of women_, “mutton-monger.”

DENT, _f._ (popular), avoir de la ----, _to have preserved one’s good looks_; _to be still young_. Mal de dents, _love_. N’avoir plus mal aux dents, _to be dead_.

DENTELLE, _f._ (thieves’), _bank notes_, “rags, flimsies, screenes, or long-tailed ones.”

DÉPARLER (popular), _to cease talking_; _to talk nonsense_.

DÉPARTEMENT, _m._ (popular), du bas rein, _breech_. See VASISTAS. A play on the word Rhin.

DÉPENDEUR, _m._ (popular), d’andouilles. See ANDOUILLES.

DÉPENSER (popular), sa salive, _to talk_, or “to jaw away.”

DÉPIAUTER, DÉPIOTER (popular), _to skin_. Se ----, _to break one’s skin_; _to undress_, “to peel.”

DÉPLANQUER (thieves’), _to remove stolen property out of hiding-place_; ---- son faux centre, _to be convicted under an alias_.

DÉPLUMER (popular), se ----, _to get bald_. Avoir le coco déplumé, _to be bald_, “to have a bladder of lard,” or “to be stag-faced.” See N’AVOIR PLUS.

DÉPONER (popular), _to ease oneself_, “to go to the chapel of ease.” See MOUSCAILLER.

DÉPORTER (popular), _to discharge from a situation_, “to give the sack.”

DÉPÔT, _m._ (popular), _dépôt de la Préfecture de Police_. Caisse des dépôts et consignations, _place of ease_, or “crapping ken.”

DÉPOTOIR, _m._ (thieves’), _confessional_; (popular) _chamber pot_, or “jerry;” _strong box_, or “peter;” _house of ill-fame_, or “nanny-shop.”

DÉPUCELEUR, _m._ (popular), de nourrices, or de femmes enceintes; _ridiculous Lovelace_.

DÉPUTÉ, _m._ (theatrical), _free ticket_.

DE QUOI (popular), _wealth_; _what next? what do you mean?_

DÉRAGER (popular), _to get pacified_. Generally used in the negative. Il n’a pas encore déragé, _he is yet in a rage_.

DÉRAILLÉ, _m._ (familiar), _one who has lost caste_.

DÉRAILLER (familiar), _to talk nonsense, cock-and-bull-story fashion_.

DÉRALINGUER (sailors’), _to die_. Properly _to detach from the bolt rope_. See PIPE.

DÉRONDINER (popular), _to pay_, “to shell out.” Se ----, _to spend or give away one’s money_. Ronds, _halfpence_.

DÉROULER (thieves’), se ----, _to spend a certain time, not specified, in prison_, “to do time.”

DERRIÈRE, _m._ (popular), roue de ----, _five-franc piece_. Se lever le ---- le premier, _to get up in a bad humour_. Used as a preposition: (Printers’) Derrière le poêle chez Cosson, _words used to evade replying to an inquiry_.

DÉSARGENTÉ, _adj._ (thieves’), _in want of money_.

Quand on est désargenté on se la brosse et l’on ne va pas
se taper un souper à l’œil.--=VIDOCQ.=

DÉSARGOTÉ, _adj._ (thieves’), être ----, _to be shrewd_, _to be a_ “file,” to be “fly,” _or a_ “leary bloke.”

DÉSARGOTER (thieves’), _to employ cunning_.

DÉSARRER (thieves’), _to flee, to_ “guy.” or “to make beef.” See PATATROT.

DÉSATILLER (thieves’), _to castrate_. Horse-trainers term the operation “adding one to the list.”

D’ESBROUFFE, or D’ESBROUF (thieves’), _by force_. Pesciller ----, _to take by force_. Estourbir ----, _to knock over the head_.

Un grand messière franc ...
Le filant sur l’estrade
D’esbrouf je l’estourbis.

=VIDOCQ.=

DESCENDRE (popular), quelqu’un, _to shoot one_, “to pot;” _to throw down_; ---- le crayon sur la colonne, _to thrash_, see VOIE; ---- la garde, _to die_, see PIPE. (Theatrical) Descendre, _to approach the footlights_. (Sporting) Un cheval qui descend, _horse against which the odds are decreasing_.

DÉSENBONNETDECOTONNER, _to give elegance to_. “De,” and “en bonnet de coton,” _a nightcap_.

DÉSENFLAQUER (popular), se ----, _to amuse oneself_. (Thieves’) Se ----, _to get out of prison_; _to get out of trouble_.

DÉSENFRUSQUINER (popular), se ----, _to undress_.

DÉSENTIFLAGE, _m._ (thieves’), _separation_; _divorce_.

DÉSENTIFLER (thieves’), _to separate_; _to divorce_.

DESFOUQUE. See DESFOUX.

DESFOUX, _f._ (popular), _silk cap sported by women’s bullies_. From the maker’s name.

DESGENAIS, _a character of a comedy by Th. Barrière_. Faire son ---- en chambre, _to play the moralist_.

DESGRIEUX, _associate of prostitutes and swindlers_. A character from _Manon Lescaut_, by l’Abbé Prévost.

DÉSHABILLAGE, _m._ (literary), _ill-natured criticism_.

Si l’on veut passer un joli quart d’heure on n’a qu’à faire
jaser un peintre connu sur un autre peintre également
connu. Quel déshabillage! mes amis.

DÉSHABILLER (popular), _to thrash_, “to wallop.” See VOIE.

DÉSOLER (thieves’), _to throw_.

DÉSOSSE, _f._ (popular), _distress_. Jouer la ----, _to be ruined_, “cracked up,” “gone to smash.”

DÉSOSSÉ, _m._ (popular), _very thin man_; _ruined man_, “brosier.”

DÉSOSSER (popular), quelqu’un, _to pommel one_. See VOIE.

DESSALÉE, _f._ (popular), _prostitute_, or “bed-fagot.” See GADOUE.

DESSALER (thieves’), _to drown_. (Popular) Se ----, _to drink a morning glass of white wine_; _to drink_, “to moisten one’s chaffer.”

DESSOUS, _m._ (theatrical), tomber dans le troisième, or trente-sixième ----, _the expression is used to denote that a play has been a complete fiasco_. (Familiar) Tomber dans le troisième ----, _to fall into utter discredit_. (Thieves’) Dessous, _man loved for_ “love,” _not for money_; _a bully_.

DESSUS, _m._ (thieves’), _man who keeps a woman_, the dessous being the said woman’s lover.

DESTUC (thieves’), être d’----, _to be partners in a robbery_; _to be in a_ “push.” “I’m in this push,” is the notice given by an English thief to another that he means to “stand in.”

DÉTACHÉ, _adj._ (sporting), cheval ----, _horse which keeps the lead_.

DÉTACHER (thieves’), le bouchon, _to steal a watch_, “to nick a jerry,” “to twist a thimble,” or “to get a red toy.”

DÉTAFFER (thieves’), _to grow bold_. De and taf, _fear_.

DÉTAILLER (theatrical), le couplet, _to sing with appropriate expression the different parts of a song_; ---- un rôle, _to bring out all the best points of a part_.

DÉTAROQUER (thieves’), _to obliterate the marking of linen_.

DÉTEINDRE (popular), _to die_, “to kick the bucket,” or “to snuff it.” See PIPE.

DÉTELER (popular), _to renounce the pleasures of love_.

DÉTOCE, or DÉTOSSE, _f._ (thieves’), _ill-luck_; _poverty_.

DÉTOURNE, _f._ (thieves’), vol à la ----, _robbery in a shop, or from the shop-window, generally committed by two confederates, the one engrossing the shopkeeper’s attention while the other takes possession of the property_.

DÉTOURNEUR, _m._, DÉTOURNEUSE, _f._, _thief who operates after the manner described under the heading of_ “VOL À LA DÉTOURNE” (which see).

DÉTRAQUER (popular), se ---- le trognon, _to become crazy_, _to become_ “balmy.”

DETTE (thieves’), payer une ----, _to be in prison_, to “do time.”

DEUIL, _m._ (popular), demi ----, _coffee without brandy_. Grand ----, _with brandy_. (Familiar) Il y a du ----, _things are going on badly_. Porter le ---- de sa blanchisseuse, _to have dirty linen_.

DEUX (popular), les ---- sœurs, _the breech_, or “cheeks.” See VASISTAS. (Thieves’) Partir pour les ----, _to set out for the convict settlement_, “to lump the lighter.”

DÉVALIDÉ, _adj._ (familiar), synonymous of invalidé, _unreturned candidate for parliament_.

DEVANT, _m._ (popular), de gilet, _woman’s breasts_, “Charlies.”

DÉVEINARD, _m._ (popular), _unlucky_.

Un de ces ouvriers déveinards, un de ces inventeurs en
chambre, qui ont compté sur le coup de fortune du nouvel
an.--=RICHEPIN=, _Le Pavé_.

DÉVEINE, _f._ (popular), _constant ill-luck_.

DÉVIDAGE, _m._ (thieves’), _long speech, or yarn_; _walk in prison yard_; ---- à l’estorgue, _lie_, “gag;” _accusation_. Faire des dévidages, _to make revelations_.

DÉVIDER (thieves’), _to talk_, “to patter;” ---- à l’estorgue, _to lie_; ---- le jars, _to speak the cant of thieves_, “to patter flash;” ---- une retentissante, _to break a bell_; (popular) ---- son peloton, _to talk a great deal_; _to make a confession_.

DÉVIDEUR, _m._, DÉVIDEUSE, _f._ (thieves’), _chatterer_, “clack-box.”

DÉVIERGER (popular), _to seduce a maiden_.

DÉVIRER (thieves’ and cads’), _to turn round_.

DÉVISSER (popular), le coco, _to strangle_; ---- le trognon à quelqu’un, _to wring a person’s neck_. Se ----, _to go away_. Se ---- la pétronille, _to break one’s head_.

DÉVISSEUR, _m._ (popular), _slanderer_, _backbiter_.

DEVOIR (gay girls’), une dette, _to have promised a rendez-vous_.

DÉVOYÉ, _adj._ (thieves’), _acquitted_.

DIABLE, _m._ (thieves’), _instigator in the employ of the police_.

DIAMANT, _m._ (theatrical), _voice of a fine quality_, “like a bell;” (popular) _paving stone_.

DIBOLATA, DIBUNI (Breton cant), _to fight_, _to thrash_.

DICTIONNAIRE VERDIER, _m._ (printers’), _imaginary dictionary of which the name is shouted loud whenever one speaks or spells incorrectly_.

DIEU (popular), le ---- terme, _rent day_. Il n’y a pas de bon ----, see BON.

DIFFICULTÉ, _f._ (sporting), être en ----, _is said of a horse which can just keep the start obtained at the cost of the greatest efforts_.

DIFOARA (Breton cant), _to pay_.

DIG-DIG, or DIGUE-DIGUE, _m._ (thieves’), _epileptic fit_. Batteur de ----, _vagabond who pretends to be seized with a fit_.

DIGONNEUR, _m._ (popular), _ill-tempered man_, _a_ “shirty” _one_.

DIJONNIER (popular), _mustard-pot_. The best mustard is manufactured at Dijon.

DILIGENCE, _f._ (popular), de Rome, _tongue_, or “velvet.”

DIMANCHE (popular), or ---- après la grand’ messe, _never, at Doomsday, or when the devil is blind_.

DINDONNER (popular), _to deceive_; _to impose upon_, “to bamboozle.” From dindon, _a dupe_, _a fool_.

DINDORNIER, _m._ (thieves’), _hospital attendant_.

DÎNER (popular), en ville, _to dine off a small roll in the street_. A philosophical way of putting it.

DINGUER (theatrical), _to be out of the perpendicular_; (popular) _to walk_, _to lounge_. Envoyer ----, _to send to the deuce_.

DISCUSSION, _f._ (popular), avoir une ---- avec le pavé, _to fall flat_, “to come a cropper.”

DISQUE, _m._ (popular), _breech_, or “tochas,” see VASISTAS; also _coin_.

DISTINGUÉ, _m._ (popular), _glass of beer_.

DIX-HUIT (popular), _shoe made up of different parts of old ones_. A play on the words “deux fois neuf,” _twice new_, or _eighteen_.

DIXIÈME, _m._ (military), passer au ---- régiment, _to die_. See PIPE. A play on the word “décimer,” _to kill one in ten_.

DOCHE, _f._ (thieves’), _mother_. Boîte à ----, _coffin_.

DOIGT, _m._ (familiar), se fourrer le ---- dans l’œil, or le ---- dans l’œil jusqu’au coude, _to be grossly mistaken_. Etre de la société du ---- dans l’œil, _to be one of those who form ambitious hopes not likely to be realized_. Name given after the Commune of 1871 to a group of Communists in exile who had separated from the rest, and had divided among themselves all the future official posts of their future government--a case of selling chickens, &c., with a vengeance.

DOMANGE (popular), marmite à ----, _waggon which carries away the contents of cesspools_. Marmiton de ----, _scavenger employed at emptying the cesspools_. Travailler pour M. ----, _to eat_. See MASTIQUER. M. Domange is the name of a contractor who has, or had, charge of the cleaning of all Paris cesspools.

DOME, _m._ (thieves’), Saint ----, or saindomme, _tobacco_, or “fogus.”

DOMINER (theatrical), _is said of an actor standing behind another who is nearer to the footlights_. It must be said, in explanation, that the stage-floor has an incline from the back to the front of the stage.

DOMINO-CULOTTE, _m._, _the last domino in a player’s hand_.

DOMINOS, _m. pl._ (thieves’), jeu de ----, _teeth_. Avoir le jeu complet de ----, _to possess one’s set of teeth complete_. Jouer des ----, _to eat_. See MASTIQUER.

Comme tu joues des dominos (des dents), à te voir, on
croirait que tu morfiles (mords) dans de la crignole
(viande).--=VIDOCQ.=

DONNE, _f._ (gambling cheats’), la ----, _the act of skilfully shuffling a pack so as to leave underneath certain cards which the cheat reserves for himself._

DONNER (thieves’), _to look_; _to see_, “to pipe;” _to peach_, or “to blow the gaff;” ---- à la Bourbonnaise, _to scowl at one_; ---- du chasse à la rousse, _to be on the look-out_, “to nark,” or “to nose;” ---- du flan, or de la galette, _to play fairly_; ---- sur le buffeton, _to read an indictment_; ---- un pont à faucher, _to lay a trap_; _to prepare a snare for one_; _to deceive one_, “to kid;” ---- une affaire, _to give the information required for the perpetration of a robbery_. (Popular) Donner de la salade, _to give one something more than a good shaking_, see VOIE; ---- du cambouis à quelqu’un, _to make fun of one_; _to play a trick_; ---- du dix-huit, see DONNER CINQ ET QUATRE; ---- du vague, _to seek for one’s living_; ---- la savate, _to give a box on the ear_, or “buck-horse;” ---- son bout, or son bout de ficelle, _to dismiss_; _to give the_ “sack;” (ironical) ---- des noms d’oiseaux, _to be very loving_; ---- cinq et quatre, _to slap one with the palm, then with the back of the hand_; ---- un coup de poing dont on ne voit que la fumée, _to give a terrific blow in the face_, “a thumper.” La ----, _to sing_, “to lip.” Se ---- de l’air, _to go out_. Se la ----, _to be off_; _to run away_, “to slope,” see PATATROT; also _to fight_, “to pitch into one another.” (Familiar) Donner la migraine à une tête de bois, _to be an insufferable bore_; ---- son dernier bon à tirer, _to die_; ---- de la grosse caisse, _to puff up a book or trade article_; ---- du balai, _to dismiss_; (Saint-Cyr cadets’) ---- du vent, _to bully_.

DONNEUR, _m._, de bonjour. See BONJOUR. (Thieves’) Donneur d’affaires, _malefactor of an inventive genius who suggests to others plans of robberies or_ “plants.”

DONNEZ-LA! (thieves’), _look out!_ “shoe leather!” Synonymous of “chou!” “acresto!” “du pet!”

DORANCHER (thieves’), _to gild_.

DORMIR (popular), en chien de fusil, _to double oneself up, when sleeping, into the shape of an S_; ---- en gendarme, _to sleep with one eye open_; _to sleep a_ “fox’s sleep.”

DORNA (Breton), _to get drunk_.

DORNER (Breton), _drunkard_.

DORT DANS L’AUGE, _m._ (popular), _lazy individual_, “lazy bones,” or “bummer.”

DORT-EN-CHIANT (popular), _extremely lazy man, with no energy whatever, with no heart for work_, “a bummer.”

DOS, _m._ (general), _woman’s bully_, “Sunday man;” ---- d’azur, vert, _same meaning_. For synonymous terms see POISSON. Scier le ---- à quelqu’un, _to importune_; “to bore” _one_.

DOSE, _f._ (popular), _unpleasant thing_.

DOSSIÈRE, _f._ (thieves’), _prostitute_, “bunter,” see GADOUE; ---- de satte, _arm-chair_.

DOUANIER, _m._ (popular), _glass of absinthe_. An allusion to the uniform of custom-house officers, which, like absinthe, is green. Termed also “un perroquet.”

DOUBLAGE, DOUBLÉ, _m._ (popular), _robbery_.

DOUBLE, _m._ (military), _sergeant-major_; (popular) ---- six, _negro_. Also _the two upper front teeth_. (Thieves’) Gras ----, _sheet lead_, or “flap.” Termed also “saucisson.”

DOUBLER (thieves’), _to steal_, “to claim,” or “to nick;” (familiar) ---- un cap, _to avoid passing before a creditor’s door_; _to be able to settle a debt or pay a bill when it falls due_; ---- le cap du terme, _to be able to pay one’s rent when it becomes due_, _to be able to clear the dreaded reef of rent day_.

DOUBLEUR, DOUBLEUX, _m._, DOUBLEUSE, _f._ (thieves’), _thief_, “prig,” see GRINCHE; ---- de sorgue, _night thief_.

DOUBLIN, _m._ (thieves’), _ten-centime piece_.

DOUBLURE, _f._ (theatrical), _actor who at a moment’s notice is able to take the part of another_; (popular) ---- de la pièce, _breasts_, “Charlies.”

DOUCE, _f._ (thieves’), _silk or satin stuff_, “squeeze.” (Popular) A la ----, _gently_; _pretty well_. Comment qu’ça va aujourd’hui? mais, à la ----, _how are you to-day? pretty bobbish_. La couler, or la passer à la ----, _to live an easy life, devoid of cares_.

DOUCETTE, _f._ (thieves’), _a file_. An endearing term for that very useful implement.

DOUCEUR, _f._ (thieves’), faire en ----, _to rob from the person without any violence, with suavity, so to speak_. Le mettre en ----, _to extort property by dint of wheedling_.

DOUILLARD, _m._ (thieves’ and popular), _wealthy man_, “rag-splawger,” “rhinoceral,” _one_ “well-ballasted.”

DOUILLARDS, _m._ (thieves’ and popular), _hair_.

Viv’ la gaîté! J’ai pas d’chaussettes;
Mes rigadins font des risettes;
Mes tas d’douillards m’servent d’chapeau.

=RICHEPIN=, _Chanson des Gueux_.

DOUILLE, _f._ (thieves’ and popular), _money_, “pieces.” See QUIBUS. Aboule la ----, “dub the pieces.”

DOUILLER (thieves’), _to pay_, “to dub;” ---- du carme, _to give money_, “to dub pieces.”

DOUILLES, _f._ (thieves’), _hair_, or “thatch;” ---- savonnées, _white hair_. Termed also “tifs, douillards, plumes.”

DOUILLET, _m._, DOUILLETTE, _f._ (thieves’), _hair_, “thatch;” _mane_.

DOUILLURE, _f._ (thieves’), _head of hair_.

DOULEUR, _f._ (popular), avaler or étrangler la ----, _to drink a glass of brandy_, the great comforter it would appear.

DOULOUREUSE, _f._ (popular), _reckoning at an eating-house_. The term is expressive of one’s sorrow when comes the dreaded “quart d’heure de Rabelais.”

DOUSSE, _f._ (thieves’), _fever_.

DOUSSIN, _m._ (thieves’), _lead_, “bluey.”

DOUSSINER (thieves’), _to line with lead_.

DOUX, _m._ (popular), du ----, _some sweet liquor such as Chartreuse, Curaçao_.

DOVERGN (Breton), _horse_.

DRAGÉE, _f._ (military), _bullet_, “plum.” Dragée, properly _sweetmeat_. Gober une ----, _to receive a bullet_.

DRAGONS. See ALLER VOIR DÉFILER.

DRAGUE, _f. and m._ (popular), une ----, _table, implements or plant of a conjuror, of a mountebank_. (Thieves’) Un ----, _surgeon_, “nim gimmer.”

DRAGUEUR, _m._ (popular), _quack_, “crocus;” _conjurer_; _mountebank_.

DRAP (popular), manger du ----, _to play at billiards_, _to play_ “spoof.”

DRAPEAU, _m._ (freemasons’), _serviette_. Grand ----, _table-cloth_.

DRAPEAUX, _m._ (popular), _swaddling clothes_.

DREGNEU, parler en ----, _is to combine this word with other words_. “Je suis pris,” becomes “Je dregue suidriguis pridriguis.”

DRILLE, or DRINGUE, _f._ (popular), _diarrhœa_, “jerry-go-nimble;” (thieves’) _five-franc piece_.

DRIVE (sailors’), être en ----, _to be out on a spree_, or “on the booze.”

DROGUE, _f._ (popular), _article of bad quality_, “Brummagem article.” Mauvaise ----, _ill-natured man or woman_. Petite ----, _wicked girl_; _disreputable girl_, “strumpet.”

DROGUER (popular), _to wait a long time_; (thieves’) _to ask for_. The term seems to imply that asking for is a tedious process, and that it is preferable to help oneself.

DROGUERIE, _f._ (thieves’), _a request_. That is, an unpleasant task.

DROGUEUR, _m._ (thieves’), de la haute, _expert thief or swindler_, “gonnof.”

DROGUISTE, _m._ (thieves’), _swindler_; _sharper_, “shark.” Termed also, in English slang, “hawk,” in opposition to the “pigeon” or victim. See GRINCHE.

DROITIER, _m._ (familiar), _member of the right, or monarchist party in parliament_. See CENTRIER.

DROMADAIRE, _m._ (popular), _prostitute_, or “mot.” Formerly _a veteran of the Egypt campaign_.

DROUILLASSE, _f._ (popular), _diarrhœa_, “jerry-go-nimble.”

DUBUGE, _f._ (thieves’), _lady_, “burerk.”

DUC, _m._ (familiar), _large carriage which holds two people inside, and has room for two servants in front and two behind_; ---- de guiche, _turnkey_, “dubsman;” ---- de la panne, _needy man_; ---- d’en face (ironical), an allusion to an insignificant man who is seeking to make a show of undue importance or to give himself grand airs.

DUCE, _m._ (thieves’), _secret signal agreed upon among sharpers_.

DUCHÊNE (popular), passer à ----, _to get a tooth extracted_. An allusion to the name of a famous dentist.

DUEL, _m._ (popular), des yeux qui se battent en ----, _squinting eyes_, or “swivel eyes.”

DU GAS, _m._ (sailors’), _my lad_.

Va bien. On t’emplira, du gas,
Répond le capitaine.
J’y fournirai, t’y fourniras
Moi l’huile à ta lanterne,
Toi l’huil’ de bras.

=RICHEPIN=, _La Mer_.

DUMANET (familiar), _appellation given to a private soldier, answers to the English_ “Thomas Atkins.” Dumanet is the name of one of the characters of a play.

DUN, parler en ----, _art of disguising words by means of the syllable_ “dun.” The letter _n_ is substituted for the first letter of the word when it is a consonant, added when a vowel. The last syllable is followed by _du_, which acts as a prefix to the first. Thus “maison” becomes “naisondumai,” “Paris” becomes “Narisdupa.”

DUNIK (Breton), _mass_.

DUNON, parler en ----, _process similar to the one called_ “parler en dun” (which see).

DUR, _adj. and m._ (popular), à la détente, or à la desserre, _stingy, close-fisted_; _man who is slow in paying his debts_. Du ----, _spirits_. (Printers’) Etre dans son ----, _to be working hard_.

DURAILLE, _f._ (thieves’), _stone_; _precious stone_, “spark.”

DURE, _f._ (thieves’), _stone_; _the central prison_; ---- à briquemon, à rifle, _flint_. Voler quelqu’un à la ----, _to rob a man with violence_, “to jump a cove.”

DURÊME, _m._ (thieves’), _cheese_.

DURILLON, _m._ (popular), _hump_.

DURIN, _m._ (thieves’), _iron_.

DURINER (thieves’), _to tip with iron_.

DUSSE. See DUCE.

DU VENT (popular), or de la mousse, de l’anis, des dattes, des navets, des nèfles, du flan, _derisive expressions of refusal_; might be rendered by, “you be blowed,” “don’t you wish you may get it,” “you’ll get it in a hurry,” &c.

DYNAMITARD, _m._ (familiar), _dynamiter_, one who aims at regenerating society by the free use of dynamite.

E

EAU, _f._ (popular), de moule, _a mixture of a little absinthe and a great deal of water_. Marchand d’---- chaude, or d’---- de javelle, _landlord of a wine-shop_.

EAU D’AF, EAU D’AFFE, _f._ (popular and thieves’), _brandy_, or “French cream,” from af, _life_.

As-tu bu l’eau d’af à c’matin? T’as l’air tout drôle,
est-ce que t’es malade, ma mère?--_Catéchisme Poissard._

EAUX, _f. pl._. (popular), être dans les ---- grasses, _to hold a high official position_. Les ---- sont basses, _funds are low_, _funds are at_ “low tide.”

EBASIR (thieves’), _to knock down_; _to murder_, “to cook one’s goose.”

EBATTRE (thieves’), s’---- dans la tigne, _to try and pick pockets in a crowd_, “to fake a cly in the push.”

EBÉNO, _m._ (popular), for ébéniste, _French polisher_.

EBOURIFFANT, _adj._ (common), _excessive_, _astounding_. Vous êtes ébouriffant, _you are_ “coming it rather too strong.”

ECAFOUILLER (popular), _to squash_.

ECAILLÉ, _m._ (popular), _prostitute’s bully_, or “Sunday man.” Properly _one with scales like those of a fish_. An allusion to maquereau. See POISSON.

ECARBOUILLER (popular), s’----, _to run away_, “to bunk.”

ECART, _m._ (gambling cheats’), _sleight of hand trick by which the cheat conceals an ace under his wrist to use when convenient_.

ECARTER (familiar), du fusil, or de la dragée, _to spit involuntarily when talking_.

ECHALAS, _m._ (popular), jus d’----, _wine_. (Thieves’) Echalas d’omnicroche, _coachman of an omnibus_.

ECHALAS, _m. pl._ (popular), _thin legs_, “spindle-shanks.”

Joue des guibolles, prends tes échalas à ton cou.
--=X. MONTÉPIN.=

ECHAPPÉ, _m._ (popular), de Charenton, _crazy fellow_ (Charenton is the Paris dépôt for lunatics); ---- d’Hérode, _unsophisticated man_, or “greenhorn.”

ECHARPILLER (popular), se faire ----, _to get a terrible thrashing_, “to get knocked into a cocked hat.” See VOIE.

ECHASSES, _f. pl._ (popular), _thin legs_, “spindle-shanks.”

ECHASSIER, _m._ (popular), _tall man with thin, long legs_, or “spindle-shanks.”

ECHAUDÉ (popular), être ----, _to be overcharged_; _to be fleeced_, “to be shaved.”

ECHAUDER (popular), _to charge more for an article than the real price_, “to shave a customer.” Properly _to scald_. According to the _Slang Dictionary_ (Chatto and Windus, 1885), when a London tradesman sees an opportunity of doing this, he strokes his chin as a signal to the assistant who is serving the customer.

ECHELLE, _f._ (popular), monter à l’----, _to ascend the scaffold_. Faire monter quelqu’un à l’----, _to get one into a rage by teazing or badgering him_, “to rile one.”

ECHINER (familiar), _to criticise sharply_, _to run down_. Properly _to thrash to within an inch of one’s life_.

ECHINEUR, _m._ (familiar), _sharp critic_.

ECHO, _m._ (popular), _an encore at a place of entertainment_.

ECHOPPE, _f._ (popular), _workshop_.

ECHOS, _m. pl._ (journalists’), _reports on topics of the day_.

ECHOTER, _to write_ “échos.” See that word.

ECHOTIER, _m._ (familiar), _writer of_ “échos.” See that word.

Indépendamment de la loge de Fauchery, il y a celle de la
rédaction, de la direction et de l’administration, une
baignoire pour son soiriste, une autre pour son échotier,
quatre fauteuils pour ses reporters.--=P. MAHALIN.=

ECLAIRAGE, _m._ (general), _money laid down on a gaming table as stakes_.

ECLAIRER (general), _to pay_, “to dub;” _to exhibit money_; (gamesters’) ---- le tapis, le velours, _to stake_; (prostitutes’) _to look about in quest of a client_.

ECLAIREUR, _m._ (gamesters’), _confederate of card-sharpers_.

ECLAIREURS, _m. pl._ (popular), _large protruding breasts_. Properly _scouts_.

ECLUSER (popular), _to void urine_, “to lag.”

ECLUSES, _f. pl._ (popular), lâcher les ----, _to weep_, “to nap a bib;” _to void urine_, “to lag.”

ECOLE PRÉPARATOIRE (thieves’), _prison_, “jug.” A kind of compulsory “Buz-napper’s Academy,” or school in which young thieves are trained.

ECOPAGE, _m._ (popular), _blow_, “prop,” “bang,” or “wipe;” _collision_; _scolding_, “bully-ragging;” _the art of calling on one just at dinner time, so as to get an invitation_.

ECOPER (popular), _to drink_. See RINCER. Properly _to bale a boat_. Ecoper, _to receive a thrashing_, “to get a walloping.”

ECOPEUR, _m._ (popular), _artful man who manages to get some small advantages out of people without appearing to ask for them_.

ECORNAGE, _m._ (thieves’), vol à l’----, _mode of robbery which consists in cutting out a small portion of a pane in a shop-window, and drawing out articles through the aperture by means of a rod provided with a hook at one of its extremities_.

ECORNÉ, _m._ (thieves’), _prisoner under examination_, or “cross kid;” _prisoner charged with an offence_, “in trouble.”

ECORNER (popular), _to slander_; _to abuse_, “to bully rag; (thieves’), _to break into_; ---- une boutanche, un boucard, _to break into a shop_, “to crack a swag.”

J’aimerais mieux faire suer le chêne sur le grand trimar,
que d’écorner les boucards.--=VIDOCQ.=

ECORNEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _public prosecutor_.

ECORNIFLER (thieves’), à la passe, _to shoot down_.

ECOSSAIS (popular), en ----, _without breeches_.

ECOSSEUR, _m._, _secretary_; _one whose functions are to peruse letters_. Properly _sheller_. The Préfecture de Police employs twelve “écosseurs,” whose duty it is to open the daily masses of correspondence conveying real or supposed clues to crimes committed. (_Globe Newspaper_, 1886.)

ECOUTE, _f. and verb_ (thieves’), _ear_, “wattle,” or “hearing cheat.” (Popular) Je t’----, je vous ----, _just so!_ _I should think so!_

ECOUTE S’IL PLEUT! (popular), _be quiet!_ _hold your_ “row!”

ECOUTILLES, _f. pl._ (sailors’), _ears_. Ouvrir ses ----, _to listen_. Properly _hatchway_.

Y es-tu, ma petite pouliotte, y es-tu? As-tu bien ouvert
tes écoutilles? Te rappelles-tu tout ça et encore
ça?--=RICHEPIN=, _La Glu_.

ECRACHE, _f._ (thieves’), _passport_; ---- tarte, or à l’estorgue, _forged passport_.

ECRACHER (thieves’), _to exhibit one’s passport_.

ECRASEMENT, _m._ (thieves’), _crowd_, “push,” or “scuff.”

ECRASER (popular), un grain, _to have a glass of wine at a wine-shop_; ---- une bouteille, _to drink a bottle of wine_.

Je viens voir à présent si n’y aurait pas moyen
d’écraser un grain pendant qu’i sont tous en train de
folichonner.--=TRUBLOT.=

ECREVISSE, _f._ (popular), de boulanger, _hypocrite_. Avoir une ---- dans la tourte, or dans le vol-au-vent, _to be crazy_, “to have apartments to let.” (Cavalry) Ecrevisse de rempart, _foot soldier_, or “beetle-crusher.” (Theatrical) Quatorzième ----, _female supernumerary_.

ECRIRE (popular), à un juif, _to ease oneself_, “to go to the crapping ken.” See MOUSCAILLER.

ECRIVASSER (literary), _to write in a desultory manner_.

ECUELLE, _f._ (popular), _plate_.

ECUME, _f._ (thieves’), de terre, _tin_. Properly _foam_.

ECUMOIRE, _f._ (familiar), _pock-marked face_, “cribbage face.” Properly _skimmer_.

ECURER (popular), son chaudron, _to go to confession_. Literally _to scour one’s stewpan_.

ECUREUIL, _m._ (popular), _man or boy whose functions consist in propelling the wheels of engineers or turners_.

EDREDON, _m._ (popular), de trois pieds, _truss of straw_. (Prostitutes’) Faire l’----, _to find a rich foreigner for a client_.

Vous me demanderez peut-être ce que signifie, faire
l’édredon.... L’eider est un oiseau exotique au duvet
précieux.... Avec ce duvet on se fabrique des couches
chaudes et moelleuses.... Les étrangers de distinction,
qu’ils viennent du Nord ou du Midi, sont, eux aussi, des
oiseaux dont les plumes laissées entre des mains adroites
et caressantes n’ont pas moins de valeur que le duvet de
l’eider.--=P. MAHALIN.=

EF, _m._ (prostitutes’), abbreviation of effet. Faire de l’----, _to show oneself to advantage_.

EFFACER (popular), _to eat or drink_, see MASTIQUER; ---- un plat, _to polish off the contents of a dish_; ---- une bouteille, _to drink off a bottle of liquor_.

EFFAROUCHER (thieves’), _to steal_, “to ease,” or “to claim.” See GRINCHIR.

EFFET (theatrical), _by-play, or those parts of a play which are intended to produce an impression on the audience_. Avoir un ----, _to have to say or do something which will make an impression on the spectators_. Couper un ----, _to spoil a fellow-actor’s_ “effet” _by distracting the attention of the public from him to oneself_.

EFFETS, _m. pl._ (familiar), faire des ---- de biceps, _to show off one’s strength_. Faire des ---- de poche, _to make a show of possessing much money_; _to pay_. Faire des ---- de manchette, _to exhibit one’s cuffs in an affected manner by a movement of the arm_.

EFFONDRER QUELQU’UN (popular), _to beat one to a jelly_, “to knock one into a cocked hat.” See VOIE.

EGAILLER LES BRÈMES (gamesters’), _to spread cards out_.

EGARD, _m._ (thieves’), faire l’----, _to keep the proceeds of a theft to oneself_.

EGAYER (theatrical), _to hiss_, “to give the big bird;” ---- l’ours, _to hiss a play_. Se faire ----, _to get hissed_, “to get the big bird.”

EGLISIER, _m._ (popular), _bigot_, or “prayer monger.”

EGNAFFER (popular), _to astound_.

EGNOLANT (popular), _astounding_.

EGNOLER (popular), _to astound_.

EGOUT, _m._ (popular), prima donna d’----, _female singer at low music-halls_, or “penny gaffs.”

EGRAFFIGNER (popular), _to scratch_.

EGRAILLER (popular), _to take_.

EGRATIGNÉE. See DÉCHIRÉE.

EGRENÉ, _m._ (journalists’), _a kind of newspaper fag_.

EGRUGEOIR, _m._ (thieves’), _pulpit_, “hum-box.”

EGRUGER (thieves’), _to plunder_, _to rifle_.

EGYPTIEN, _m._ (theatrical), _bad actor_, _inferior sort of_ “cackling cove.”

ELBEUF, _m._ (familiar), _coat_, “tog.”

ELECTEUR, _m._ (commercial travellers’), _client_.

ELÉMENTS, _m. pl._ (card-sharpers’), _money_, or “pieces.” See QUIBUS.

ELÈVE, _m._ (thieves’ and cads’), du Château, _prisoner_; _old offender_.

ELÈVE-MARTYR, _m._ (cavalry), _one who is training to be a corporal_, and who in consequence has to go through a very painful ordeal, considering that French non-commissioned officers have the iron hand without the velvet glove.

ELIXIR, _m._ (popular), de hussard, _brandy_. See TORD-BOYAUX.

ELTRISA (Breton), _to seek for one’s livelihood_.

ELTRIZ (Breton), _bread_.

EMANCIPER (familiar), s’----, _to take undue familiarities with women_, “to fiddle.”

EMBALLER (thieves’ and popular), _to apprehend_, “to smug.” See PIPER. S’----, _to get excited_. Properly _is said of a horse that runs away_.

EMBALLES, _f. pl._ (prostitutes’), _fussy_, _showing off_. Faire des ----, _to make a fuss_.

EMBALLEUR (thieves’), _police-officer_, “copper,” or “reeler.” See POT-À-TABAC. Properly _packer_. Emballeur de refroidis, _undertaker’s man_.

EMBALUCHONNER (popular), _to make up a parcel_; _to wrap up_.

EMBANDER (thieves’), _to take by force_.

EMBARDER (popular), _to wander from one’s subject_; _to prevaricate_; _to make a mistake_; _to enter_. J’ai embardé dans la carrée, _I entered the room_.

EMBARRAS, _m._ (thieves’), _bed sheet_. (Popular) Mettre une fille dans l’----, _to seduce a girl, with the natural consequences_.

EMBAUMÉ, _m._ (popular), vieil ----, _old fool_; _old curmudgeon_, “doddering old sheep’s head.”

EMBERLIFICOTEUR, _m._ (popular), _artful man, or an expert at wheedling_, “sly blade.”

EMBISTROUILLER (popular), _to embarrass_; _to perplex_, “to flummux.”

EMBLÈME, _m._ (thieves’), _deceit_; _falsehood_, or “gag.”

EMBLÉMER (thieves’), _to deceive_, “to stick.”

EMBLÈMES, _m. pl._ (popular), des ----, _expression of disbelief_; might be rendered by “all my eye!” See NÈFLES.

EMBOÎTER (theatrical), _to abuse_.

EMBOSSER (sailors’), s’----, _to place oneself_. Properly _to bring the broadside to bear_.

EMBOUCANER (popular), _to stink_. Termed also “casser, plomber, chelinguer, trouilloter.” S’----, _to feel dull, out of sorts_, “to have the blue devils.”

EMBROUILLARDER (popular), s’----, _is said of a person in that state of incipient intoxication that if he took more drink the effects would become evident_. See SCULPTER.

EMBROUSSAILLÉS, _adj._ (familiar), cheveux ----, _matted hair_.

EMBUSQUÉ, _adj._ (military), _soldier who by reason of certain functions is excused from military duties_.

EMÉCHÉ, _adj._ (familiar), _slightly intoxicated_, or “elevated.” See POMPETTE.

EMÉCHER (familiar), s’----, _to be in a fair way of getting tipsy_. See SCULPTER.

EMÉRILLONNER (popular), s’----, _to become quite cheerful_, or “cock a hoop,” _through repeated potations_.

EMIGRÉ, _m._ (popular), de Gomorrhe, _Sodomite_.

EMMAILLOTER (thieves’), _to dupe_, “to best;” ---- un môme, _to prepare a theft or other crime_. Synonymous of “engraisser un poupart.”

EMMAILLOTEUR, _m._ (popular), _tailor_, “snip,” “steel-bar driver,” “cabbage contractor.”

EMMANCHÉ, _m._ (popular), _slow, clumsy fellow_, “stick in the mud.”

EMMARGOUILLIS, _m._ (popular), _obscene talk_, or “blue talk.”

EMMASTOQUER (popular), s’----, _to live well_; _to eat to excess_, “to stodge.”

EMMERDEMENT, _m._ (familiar and popular), a coarse word; _great annoyance_; _trouble_.

EMMERDER (general), a coarse word; _to annoy_; _to bore_. Also _extremely forcible expression of contempt_. Properly _to cover with excrement_. The English have the word “to immerd,” _to cover with dung_.

J’emmerde la cour, je respecte messieurs les jurés.
--=V. HUGO.=

EMMIELLER, EMMOUTARDER (popular), _euphemism for_ EMMERDER (which see).

EMMILLIARDER (popular), s’----, or s’emmillionner, _to become prodigiously rich_.

EMOS, _f._ (popular), abbreviation of émotion.

EMOUVER (popular), s’----, _to shift noisily about_; _to hurry_, or “to look alive.”

EMPAFFER (popular), _to intoxicate_. From paf, _drunk_. See SCULPTER.

EMPAFFES, _f. pl._ (thieves’), _bed-clothes_.

EMPAILLÉ, _m._ (popular), _clumsy man_; _slow man, lacking energy_, “stick in the mud.”

EMPALER (popular), _to deceive one by false representations_, “to bamboozle.”

EMPAOUTER (popular), _to annoy_; _to bore_, “to spur.”

EMPAUMÉ, _adj._ (popular), c’est ----, _it’s done_.

EMPAUMER (popular and thieves’), _to apprehend_, “to smug.” See PIPER.

EMPAVE, _f._ (thieves’), _crossway_.

EMPÊCHEUR (familiar), de danser en rond, _dismal man, who plays the dog in the manger_, “mar-joy.”

EMPEREUR, _m._ (popular), _worn-out old shoe_.

EMPIERGEONNER (popular), s’----, _to get entangled_.

Margot dans sa cotte et ses bas
S’empiergeonna là-bas, là-bas.

=RICHEPIN=, _Chanson des Gueux_.

EMPIFFRAGE, _m._, EMPIFFRERIE, _f._ (popular), _gluttony_, “stodging.”

EMPILAGE, _m._, or EMPIL (popular), _cheating_.

EMPILER (popular), _to cheat at a game_.

EMPIOLER (thieves’), _to lock up_, “to give the clinch.”

EMPLANQUER (thieves’), _to come up_; _to turn up_, “to crop up.”

EMPLÂTRE, _m._ (card-sharpers’), de Thapsia, _shirt front and collar_. (Popular) Faire un ----, _to arrange one’s cards ready for playing_. (Thieves’) Emplâtre, _wax imprint taken for housebreaking purposes_.

EMPLÂTRER (popular), _to thrash_, “to wallop.” Si tu crânes, je vais t’emplâtrer, _none of your cheek, else I’ll give you a beating_. See VOIE. S’----, _to encumber oneself_.

EMPLOYÉ, _adj._ (military), dans les eaux grasses, _clerk of the victualling department_, “mucker.”

EMPLÛCHER (thieves’), _to pillage_.

EMPOIGNADE, _f._ (popular), _dispute_, “row.”

EMPOIGNER (literary), _to criticise vigorously_; (theatrical) _to hiss_, “to give the big bird.”

EMPOISONNEUR, _m._ (popular), _the landlord of wine-shop_. Termed also “mastroquet, troquet, bistrot.”