Chapter D (2)

EMPOIVRER (popular), s’----, _to get drunk_, “to get screwed.” See SCULPTER.

EMPORTER (thieves’), _to swindle_, “to stick;” (popular) ---- le chat, _to meddle with what does not concern one, and to get abused or thrashed for one’s pains_. To act as Monsieur Robert in Molière’s _Le Médecin malgré Lui_, when he upbraids Sganarelle for beating his spouse, and in return gets thrashed by both husband and wife.

EMPORTEUR, _m._, _swindler who gets into conversation with a stranger, gains his confidence, and takes him to a café where two confederates_, “le bachotteur” _and_ “la bête,” _await him_ (see BACHOTTEUR); ---- à la côtelette, _card-sharper who operates at restaurants_.

EMPOSEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _Sodomite_.

EMPOTÉ, _m._ (familiar), _slow, clumsy man_, “stick in the mud.”

EMPOUSTEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _swindler who sells spurious goods to tradesmen under false pretences_.

EMPRUNTER (popular), un pain sur la fournée, _to beget a child before marriage_; ---- un qui vaut dix, _to conceal one’s baldness by brushing the hair forward_.

EMU, _adj._ (popular), _slightly intoxicated_, “elevated.” See POMPETTE.

EN (popular), avoir plein ses bottes, _to be tired, sick of a person or thing_.

ENBOHÉMER (familiar), s’----, _to get into low society_.

ENBONNETDECOTONNER, s’----, _to become commonplace in manner or way of thinking_.

ENCAISSER (popular), un soufflet, _to receive a smack in the face_, or “buck-horse.”

ENCARRADE, _f._ (thieves’), _entrance_. Lourde d’----, _street door_.

ENCARRER (thieves’), _to enter_, “to prat.”

ENCASQUER (thieves’), to enter, or “to prat.”

Pour gonfler ses valades
Encasque dans un rade,
Sert des sigues à foison.

=VIDOCQ.=

ENCEINTRER (popular), _to make a woman big with child_. Abbreviation of enceinturer, an expression used in the eighteenth century.

ENCHETIBER (thieves’), _to apprehend_, “to smug.” See PIPER.

ENCIBLE (thieves’), _together_. For ensemble.

ENCLOUÉ, _m._ (popular), _Sodomist_; _man without any energy_. A term expressive of utter contempt, and an euphemism for a very coarse word. The literal English rendering may be heard from the mouths of English workmen at least a dozen times in a lapse of as many minutes. The French expression might be rendered in less offensive language by “a snide bally fool.”

Qu’est-ce qu’il a à m’emmoutarder cet encloué de singe?
cria Bec-Salé.--=ZOLA=, _L’Assommoir_.

ENCLOUER (popular), _to take some article to the pawnshop_, “to put in lug,” “to blue,” or “to lumber.”

ENCOLIFLUCHETER (popular), s’----, _to feel out of sorts_; _to have the_ “blue devils.”

ENCRE, _f._ (familiar), buveur d’----, _clerk_, or “quill-driver.”

ENCROTTER (popular), _to bury_. Crotte, _mud_, _muck_.

ENDÉCHER (popular), _to get one into debt_. S’----, _to run into debt_.

ENDORMAGE, _m._ (thieves’), vol à l’----, _robbing a person who has been made unconscious by means of a narcotic_. The rogue who has recourse to this mode of despoiling his victim is termed in English slang “a drummer.”

ENDORMEUR, _m._, thief. See ENDORMAGE.

ENDORMI, _m._ (popular), _judge_, or “beak.”

ENDORMIR (thieves’), _to kill_, “to give one his gruel,” “to cook his goose.” See REFROIDIR.

ENDOS, _m._ (popular), _the back_.

ENDOSSE, or ANDOSSE, _f._ (thieves’), _shoulder_; _back_. Raboter l’----, _to beat black and blue_. See VOIE. Tapis d’----, _shawl_.

ENDROGUER (thieves’), _is said of a rogue who goes about seeking for a_ “job,” quærens quem devoret.

ENFANT, _m._ (thieves’), _short crowbar used by housebreakers_. Termed also “Jacques, sucre de pomme, rigolo, biribi, dauphin;” and by English rogues, “the stick, James, jemmy;” _strong box_, or “peter;” ---- de la matte, _one of the confraternity of thieves_, or “family-man.” (Popular) Un ---- de chœur, _sugar loaf_. Un ---- de giberne, _soldier’s child_. Un ---- de trente-six pères, _a prostitute’s offspring_. (Familiar) Un ---- de la balle, _an actor’s child, or one who follows the same calling as his father_.

ENFIFRÉ, _m._ (popular), _Sodomist_, _slow man_, or “slow coach.”

ENFIGNEUR, _m._ (popular and thieves’), _Sodomist_. See GOUSSE.

ENFILAGE, _m._ (thieves’), _arrest_.

ENFILER (popular), _to take red-handed_; _to have connection_; ---- des briques, _to be fasting_, _to be_ “bandied;” ---- des perles. See PERLES. Se faire ----, _to be caught in the act of stealing_.

ENFLAMMÉS, _m. pl._ (military), _soldiers under arrest whose fondness for the fair sex has caused them to delay their attendance at barracks more than is consistent with their military duties, and has brought them into trouble_.

ENFLANELLER (popular), s’----, _to take a grog_, “a nightcap.”

ENFLAQUER (thieves’), _to seize_; _to apprehend_, “to smug.” See PIPER. J’ai enflaqué le bogue et le morningue du pante, _I laid hands on the_ “cove’s” _watch and purse_.

J’ai manqué d’être enflaqué sur le boulevard du
Temple.--=VIDOCQ.=

S’----, _to be ruining oneself_.

ENFLÉE, _f._ (thieves’), _bladder_; _skin which contains brandy or wine_.

ENFLER (popular), _to drink_, “to lush.” See RINCER.

ENFONCÉ, _adj._ (familiar), _ruined_; _outwitted_, “done brown.”

ENFONCER (familiar), _to outwit one_, “to do one.”

ENFONCEUR, _m._ (familiar), _a business man or financier who makes dupes_; _harsh critic_; (thieves’) _swindler_, or “shark;” ---- de flancheurs de gadin, _rogue who robs of their halfpence players at the game called_ “bouchon” (_played with a cork and halfpence_). He treads on one of the coins, which, by a skilful motion of the foot, remains in the interstices of his worn-out shoe. The “business” is, of course, not a very profitable one.

ENFOURAILLER (thieves’), _to apprehend_, “to smug;” _to imprison_, “to give the clinch.” See PIPER.

ENFOURNER (popular), _to imprison_, “to give the clinch.” See PIPER.

ENFRIMER (thieves’), _to peer into one’s face_.

ENGAGÉ, _adj._ (gamblers’), être ----, _to have lost heavily at some game_.

ENGAGER (sporting), _to enter a horse for a race_.

ENGAMÉ, _adj._ (thieves’), _enraged_; _rabid_.

ENGANTER (thieves’), _to seize_; _to steal_, “to nick.” En être enganté, _to be in love with_.

J’ai fait par comblance
Gironde larguecapé,...
Un jour à la Courtille,
J’m’en étais enganté.

=VIDOCQ.=

ENGERBER (thieves’), _to apprehend_, “to smug.” From gerbe, _a sheaf of corn_. See PIPER.

ENGLUER (thieves’), la chevêche, _to arrest a gang of rogues_.

ENGOURDI, _m._ (thieves’), _corpse_, or “cold meat.”

ENGRAILLER (thieves’), _to catch_, _to seize_; ---- l’ornie, _to catch a fowl, generally by means of a baited hook_ (old cant).

Je sais bien aquiger les luques, engrailler l’ornie.--_Le
Jargon de l’Argot._ (_I know how to prepare pictures, to
catch a fowl._)

ENGRAINER (popular), _to arrive_, “to crop up.”

ENGRAISSER (thieves’), un poupart, _to make preparations for a theft or murder_. Literally _to fatten a child_.

ENGROUILLER (popular), s’----, _to stick fast_; _to be inert, without energy_.

ENGUEULADE, ENGUEULAGE, synonymous of ENGUEULEMENT.

ENGUEULEMENT, _m._ (popular), _abuse in any but choice language_. Also _insults by an abusive and scurrilous journalist who runs down public or literary men in expressions strongly savouring of the gutter_. Fair specimens of this coarse kind of pen warfare may be found daily in at least one notorious Radical print, which would be thought very tame by its habitual readers if it had not a ready stock of abuse at its disposal, the most ordinary being voleur, bandit, maquereau, scélérat, porc, traître, vendu, ventru, ventripotent, jouisseur, idiot, crétin, gâteux, &c., &c.

ENGUIRLANDER (popular), _to circumvent_.

ENLEVÉ, _adj._ (familiar), _spirited_. Un article ----, un discours ----, _spirited article or speech_.

ENLEVER (theatrical), _to play with spirit_; (general) ---- le ballon à quelqu’un, _to kick one_, “to root,” or “to land a kick.” (Thieves’) S’----, _to be famished_.

ENLEVEUR (theatrical), _actor who plays in dashing, spirited style_.

ENLUMINER (popular), s’----, _to be in the first stage of intoxication_, or “elevated.” See SCULPTER.

ENLUMINURE, _f._ (popular), _state of slight intoxication_. See POMPETTE.

ENNUYER (popular), s’----, _to be on the point of death_.

ENPLAQUE, _f._ (thieves’), _police_, “the reelers.”

ENQUILLER (thieves’), _to conceal_; ---- une thune de camelotte, _to secrete a piece of cloth under one’s dress, or between one’s thighs_. Also _to enter_, “to prat.”

J’enquille dans sa cambriole
Espérant de l’entifler.

=VIDOCQ.=

ENQUILLEUSE, _f._, _female thief who conceals stolen property under her apron or between her legs_. From quille, _leg_.

ENQUIQUINER (popular), _to annoy_, “to spur.” Is also expressive of scornful feelings. Je vous enquiquine! _a hang for you!_ S’----, _to feel dull_.

ENRAYER (popular), _to renounce love and its pleasures_.

ENRHUMER (popular), _to annoy one_, _to bore one_, “to spur.” Termed also “courir quelqu’un.”

ENROSSER (horse-dealers’), _to conceal the faults of a horse_. (Popular) S’----, _to get lazy_, or “Mondayish.”

ENSECRÉTER (showmens’), _to make a puppet ready for the show by dressing it up, &c._

ENSEIGNE DE CIMETIÈRE, _f._ (thieves’), _priest_, or “devil dodger.”

ENSEMBLE, _m._ (artists’), un modèle qui pose l’----, _a model who sits for the whole figure, that is, who poses nude_.

ENTABLEMENT, _m._ (popular), _shoulders_.

ENTAILLER (thieves’), _to kill one_, “to give one his gruel.” See REFROIDIR.

ENTAME, _f._ (popular), à toi l’----! _you make the first move!_

ENTAMER (thieves’), _to make one speak_; _to worm out one’s secrets_. Si le roué veut entamer tézigue, nib du truc, _if the magistrate tries to pump you, hold your tongue_.

ENTAULER (thieves’), _to enter_, “to prat.”

ENTENDRE (popular), de corne, _to mistake a word for another_. N’---- que du vent, _not to be able to make head or tail of what one hears_.

ENTERREMENT, _m._ (popular), _a piece of meat placed in a lump of bread, or an apology for a sandwich_; (familiar) ---- de première classe, _grand, but dull ceremony_. Is said also of the total failure of a literary or dramatic production.

ENTERVER, or ENTRAVER (thieves’), _to listen_; _to hear_; _to understand_. Que de baux la muraille enterve! _take care, the walls have ears!_ (old)

Le rupin sortant dehors vit cet écrit, il le lut, mais il
n’entervait que floutière; il demanda au ratichon de son
village ce que cela voulait dire mais il n’entervait pas
mieux que sezière.--_Le Jargon de l’Argot._

ENTIÈRES, _f. pl._ (thieves’), _lentils_.

ENTIFFER (popular), _to enter_; (thieves’) _to wheedle_; _to adorn_.

Ah! si j’en défouraille,
Ma largue j’entiferai.
J’li f’rai porter fontange,
Et souliers galuchés.

=V. HUGO.=

ENTIFFLE, _f._ See ANTIFFLE.

ENTIFFLER (thieves’), _to wheedle_; _to walk_, or “to pad the hoof;” _to steal_, “to nick,” or “to claim.” See GRINCHIR.

ENTONNE, _f._ (thieves’), _church_. Termed also “chique.”

ENTONNOIR, _m._ (popular), _throat_, or “peck-alley;” ---- à patte, _drinking glass_; ---- de zinc, _a throat which is proof against the strongest spirits_.

ENTORTILLÉ, _adj._ (popular), _clumsy_, _awkward_, _gawky_.

ENTRAVAGE, _m._ (thieves’), _hearing_; _understanding_, “twigging.”

ENTRAVER (thieves’ and cads’), _to understand_, “to twig.” J’entrave pas dans tes vannes, _I don’t take that nonsense in_, _I am not to be humbugged_, “do you see any green in my eye?” J’entrave pas ton flanche, _I can’t understand what you are at_.

EN TRAVERSE, _f._ (thieves’), _at the hulks_.

ENTRECÔTE, _f._ (popular), de brodeuse, _piece of Brie cheese_. (Thieves’) Entrecôte, _sword_.

ENTRÉE, _f._ (popular), de Portugal, _ridiculous rider_; ---- des artistes, _anus_.

ENTREFILET, _m._ (journalists’), _short newspaper paragraph_.

ENTRELARDÉ, _m._ (popular), _a man who is neither fat nor thin_.

ENTRER (popular), aux quinze-vingts, _to fall asleep_. Les Quinze-vingts is a government hospital for the blind; ---- dans la confrérie de Saint-Pris, _to get married_, or “spliced;” ---- dans l’infanterie, _to be pregnant_; ---- en tempête, _to fly into a passion_, “to lose one’s shirt.”

ENTRIPAILLÉ, _adj._ (popular), _stout_, _with a_ “corporation” _in front_.

ENTRIPAILLER (popular), s’----, _to grow stout_.

ENTROLER, ENTROLLER (thieves’), _to carry away_.

Il mouchailla des ornies de balle qui morfilaient du grenu
en la cour; alors il ficha de son sabre sur la tronche
à une, il l’abasourdit, la met dans son gueulard et
l’entrolle.--_Le Jargon de l’Argot._ (_He saw some turkey
cocks which were pecking at some corn in the yard; he then
cut one over the head with his sword, killed it, put it in
his wallet, and carried it off._)

ENVELOPPER (artists’), _to draw the sketch of a painting_.

ENVOYÉ, _adj._ (familiar), bien ----, _a good hit! well said!_

ENVOYER (general), à la balançoire, à loustaud, à l’ours, dinguer, à Chaillot, _to send to the deuce_, see CHAILLOT; ---- en paradis, _to kill_, “to give one his gruel;” ---- quelqu’un aux pelotes, _to send one to the deuce_. (Thieves’) Envoyer quelqu’un à Niort, _to say no to one, to refuse_; ---- en parade, _to kill_. (Popular and thieves’) Se l’----, _to eat_, “to grub.” See MASTIQUER.

EPAIS, _m._ (players’), _five and six of dominoes_.

EPARGNER (thieves’), n’---- le poitou, _to be careful_.

N’épargnons le poitou,
Poissons avec adresse,
Messières et gonzesses,
Sans faire de regoût.

=VIDOCQ.=

EPATAGE, _m._ (popular). See EPATEMENT.

EPATAMMENT (popular), _wonderfully_, “stunningly.”

EPATANT, ÉPATAROUFLANT, _adj._ (general), _wonderful_; _wondrous_, “stunning,” “crushing.”

EPATE, _f._ (general), faire de l’----, _to show off_.

EPATEMENT, _m._ (general), _astonishment_.

EPATER, ÉPATAROUFLER (general), quelqu’un, _to astound one, to make him wonder at something or other_.

EPATEUR, _m._, ÉPATEUSE, _f._ (general), _one who shows off_; _one who tries to astound people by showing off_.

EPAULE, _f._ (general), changer son fusil d’----, _to alter one’s opinion; to change one’s mind_.

EPÉE, _f._ (popular), de Savoyard, _fisticuffs_.

EPICÉ, _adj._ (general), _at an exaggerated price_. C’est diablement ----, _it is a long price_.

EPICEMAR, _m._ (familiar), _grocer_.

EPICÉPHALE, _m._ (students’), _hat_. See TUBARD.

EPICER (popular), _to scoff at_; _to deride_.

EPICERIE, _f._ (artists’), _the world of Philistines_, “non digni intrare.”

EPICE-VINETTE, _m._ (thieves’), _grocer_.

EPICIER, M. (familiar), _man devoid of any artistic taste_; _mean, vulgar man_; termed also “commerçant;” (students’) _one who does not take up classics at college_.

EPILER (popular), se faire ---- la pêche, _to get shaved_.

EPINARDS (artists’), plat d’----, _painting where tones of crude green predominate_. (Popular) Aller aux ----, _to receive money from a prostitute_.

EPINGLE, _f._ (popular), avoir une ---- à son col, _to have a glass of wine waiting ready poured out for one at a neighbouring wine-shop, and paid for by a friend_.

EPIPLOON, _m._ (students’), _necktie_.

EPITONNER (thieves’), s’----, _to grieve_.

EPOINTER (popular), son foret, _to die_, “to kick the bucket,” or “to snuff it.” See CASSER SA PIPE.

EPONGE, _f._ (general), _paramour_; _drunkard_, or “lushington;” ---- à sottises, _gullible man_, “gulpin;” ---- d’or, _attorney_, or “green bag.” An allusion to the long bills of lawyers.

EPOUFFER (thieves’), _to pounce on one_.

EPOUSE, _f._ (familiar), édition belge, _mistress_, or “tartlet.”

EPOUSER (thieves’), la camarde, _to die_, “to croak;” ---- la fourcandière, or la fauconnière, _to throw away stolen property when pursued_; ---- la veuve, _to be executed_.

EPROUVÉ, _m._ (thieves’), _well-behaved convict who, after having_ “done half his time,” _is recommended for a ticket-of-leave_.

EQUERRE, _f._ (popular), fendre son ----, _to run away_, “to make tracks.” See PATATROT.

ERAILLER (thieves’), _to kill one_, “to cook his goose.” See REFROIDIR.

EREINTEMENT, _m._ (familiar), _sharp, unfriendly criticism_.

EREINTER (familiar), _to run down a literary work or a literary man_; _to hiss an actor_, “to give the big bird.”

EREINTEUR, _m._ (familiar), _scurrilous or sharp critic_.

ERÉNÉ (popular), _exhausted_, _spent_, _done up_, “gruelled.”

ERGOT, _m._ (popular), se fendre l’----, _to run away_, “to make tracks.” See PATATROT.

ERLEQUIN (Breton), _frying-pan for frying pancakes_.

ERNEST, _m._ (journalists’), _official communication from official quarters to the press_.

ERREUR, _f._ Y a pas d’----! _a Parisian expression used in support of an assertion_.

Y a pas d’erreur, va; j’suis un homme,
Un chouett’, un zig, un rigolo.

=GILL.=

ERVOANIK PLOUILIO (Breton), _death_.

ES, _m._ (popular), for escroc, _swindler_, or “shark.”

ESBALLONNER (popular), _to slip away_, “to mizzle.” See PATATROT.

ESBIGNER (popular), s’----, _to slip away_, “to mizzle.” See PATATROT.

ESBLINDER (popular), _to astound_.

ESBLOQUANT, _adj._ (popular), _astounding_.

ESBLOQUER (popular), _to astound_. S’----, _to feel astonished_. Ne vous esbloquez donc pas comme ça, _do not be so astonished_, _keep cool_.

ESBROUF (thieves’), d’----, _all at once_; _violently_; _by surprise_.

D’esbrouf je l’estourbis.--=VIDOCQ.= (_I suddenly knocked
him over the head._)

ESBROUFE, ESBROUFFE, coup à l’----. See A L’ESBROUFFE.

ESBROUFFEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _thief who practises the kind of theft called_ “VOL À L’ESBROUFFE” (which see).

ESBROUFFEUSE, _f._, _flash girl who makes much fuss_.

ESCAFF, _m._ (popular), _kick in the breech_.

ESCAFFER (popular), _to give a kick in the breech_, “to root,” or “to land a kick.”

ESCANNE, _f._ (thieves’), à l’----, _away! and the devil take the hindmost_.

ESCANNER (thieves’), _to run away_, or “to make beef.” See PATATROT.

ESCARCHER (thieves’), _to look on_, “to pipe.”

ESCARE, _f._ (thieves’), _impediment_; _obstacle_; _disappointment_.

ESCARER (thieves’), _to prevent_.

ESCAREUR (thieves’), _one who prevents_.

ESCARGOT, _m._ (popular), _slow, dull man_, or “stick in the mud;” _vagrant_; ---- de trottoir, _police officer_, or “crusher.” See POT-À-TABAC. (Military) Escargot, _man with his tent when campaigning_.

ESCARPE, _m._ (thieves’), _thief and murderer_; ---- zézigue, _suicide_.

ESCARPER (thieves’), _to kill_. See REFROIDIR. Escarper un zigue à la capahut, _to kill a thief in order to rob him of his booty_.

ESCARPIN, _m._ (popular), de Limousin, or en cuir de brouette, _wooden shoe_; ---- renifleur, _leaky shoe_.

ESCARPINER (popular), s’----, _to escape nimbly_; _to give the slip_.

ESCARPOLETTE, _f._ (theatrical), _practical joke_; _an addition made to a part_.

ESCAVER (thieves’). See ESCARER.

ESCLOT, _m._ (popular), _wooden shoe_.

ESCOUADE, _f._ (military), envoyer chercher le parapluie de l’----, _to get rid of a person whose presence is not desired by sending him on a fool’s errand_.

ESCOUTES, or ÉCOUTES, _f. pl._ (thieves’), _ears_, or “hearing cheats.”

ESCRIME, _m._ (military), _clerk_, “quill-driver.”

ESGANACER (thieves’), _to laugh_.

ESGARD, or ÉGARD, _m._ (thieves’), faire l’----, _to rob an accomplice of his share of the plunder_. The author of this kind of robbery goes among his English brethren by the name of “Poll thief.”

ESGOUR, _adj._ (thieves’), _lost_.

ESGOURDE, ESGOUVERNE, ESGOURNE, _f._ (thieves’), _ear_, or “hearing cheat.” Débrider l’----, _to listen_.

ESPAGNOL, _m._ (popular), _louse_.

ESPALIER, _m._ (theatrical), _a number of female supernumeraries drawn up in line_.

ESPÈCE, _f._ (familiar), _woman of questionable character_.

ESPRIT, _m._ (familiar), des braves, _brandy_.

ESQUE, _m._ See ESGARD.

ESQUINTE, _m._ (thieves’), _abyss_. Vol à l’----, _burglary_, “panny,” “screwing,” or “busting.”

ESQUINTEMENT, _m._ (general), _excessive fatigue_; (thieves’) _burglary_, or “busting.”

ESQUINTER (familiar), _to damage_; _to fatigue_; (popular) _to thrash_; see VOIE; (thieves’) _to kill_; see REFROIDIR; _to break_. La carouble s’est esquintée dans la serrante, _the key has been broken in the lock_. (Familiar) S’----, or s’---- le tempérament, _to tire oneself out_.

ESQUINTEUR (thieves’), _housebreaker_, “panny-man,” “screwsman,” or “buster.”

ESSAYER (theatrical), le tremplin, _to act in an unimportant play, which is given as a preliminary to a more important one_; _to be the first to sing at a concert_. (Soldiers’) Envoyer ---- une chemise de sapin, _to kill_.

ESSENCE, _f._ (general), de parapluie, _water_.

ESSES (popular), faire des ----, _to reel about_.

ESSUYER (familiar), les plâtres, _to kiss the face of a female whose cheeks are painted_.

ESSUYEUSE, _f._ (familiar), de plâtres, _street-walker_. See GADOUE.

ESTABLE, _f._ (thieves’), _fowl_, “beaker.”

ESTAFFIER, _m._ (familiar), _police officer_; (thieves’) _cat_.

ESTAFFIN, _m._ (popular), _cat_.

ESTAFFION, _m._ (popular), _blow on the head_, “bang on the nut;” (thieves’) _cat_, “long-tailed beggar.”

ESTAFILER (military), la frimousse, _to cut one’s face with a sword_.

ESTAFON, _m._ (old cant), _capon_.

ESTAMPILLER (thieves’), _to mark_; _to show_ (in reference to the hour). Luysard estampillait six plombes, _it was six o’clock by the sun_.

ESTAPHE, _f._ (popular), _slap_.

ESTAPHLE, _f._ (thieves’), _fowl_, “beaker,” or “cackling cheat.”

ESTIME (familiar), succès d’----, _a doubtful success_.

ESTIO, ESTOC, _m._ (thieves’), _intellect_, _wit_. Il a de l’----, _he is clever_, or “wide.”

ESTOMAC, _m._ (general), _courage_, _pluck_, “wool.”

ESTOMAQUÉ, _adj._ (popular), _astounded_, “flabbergasted.”

ESTORGUE, ESTOQUE, _f._ (thieves’), _falsehood_. Chasses à l’----, _squinting eyes_.

ESTOURBIR (thieves’), _to stun_; _to kill_.

ESTOURBISSEUR, _m._ (popular), de clous de girofle, _dentist_.

ESTRADE, _f._ (thieves’), _boulevard_.

Le filant sur l’estrade
D’esbrouf je l’estourbis.

=VIDOCQ.=

ESTRANGOUILLADE, _f._ (popular), _the act of strangling or garrotting a man_.

ESTRANGOUILLER (popular), _to strangle_; ---- un litre, _to drink a litre of wine_.

ESTROPIER (popular), _to eat_, “to grub.” Properly _to maim_.

ESTUQUE, _m._ (thieves’), _share of booty_, or “regulars.”

ESTUQUER (popular), _to thrash_, “to wallop.”

ETAGÈRE, _f._ (general), _female assistant at restaurants who has the charge of the fruit, &c._; _bosom_.

ETAL, _m._ (popular), _bosom_.

ETALAGE, _m._ (general), vol à l’----, _shoplifting_.

ETALER (familiar), sa marchandise, _to wear a very low dress, thus showing what ought to remain covered_.

ETAMÉ, _adj._ (thieves’), _old offender_. Boule de son ----, _white bread_.

ETANCHE, _f._ (popular), avoir le goulot en ----, _to be thirsty, or dry_.

ETEIGNOIR, _m._ (general), _large nose, or large_ “conk;” _dull person_. Ordre de l’----, _the order of Jesuits_. (Thieves’) Eteignoir, _préfecture de police, palais de justice, or law courts_.

ETEINDRE (popular), son gaz, _to die_, “to snuff it.”

ETERNUER (popular), sur une négresse, _to drink a bottle of wine_; (thieves’) ---- dans le sac, or dans le son, _to be guillotined_.

Pauvre petit Théodore ... il est bien gentil. C’est dommage
d’éternuer dans le son à son âge.--=BALZAC.=

ETIER, _m._, _a kind of trench dug by the salt-marsh workers_.

ET LE POUCE, ET MÈCHE (popular), _and the rest!_ Cette dame a quarante ans. Oui, et le pouce! _This lady is forty years of age. Yes, and the rest!_

ETOFFES, _f. pl._ (thieves’), _money_, “pieces.”

ETOUFFAGE, _m._ (thieves’), _theft_, or “push;” (popular), _concealment of money on one’s person_; _stealing part of the stakes by a player or looker-on_.

ETOUFFE, _m._ (thieves’), _clandestine gaming-house_.

ETOUFFER (popular), _to secrete money about one’s person_; ---- un enfant de chœur, une négresse, _to drink a bottle of wine_; ---- un perroquet, _to drink a glass of absinthe_.

ETOUFFOIR, _m._ See ETOUFFE.

ETOURDIR (popular), _to solicit_; _to entreat_. Properly _to make giddy_.

ETOURDISSEMENT, _m._ (popular), _soliciting a service_.

ETOURDISSEUR, _m._ (popular), _one who solicits, who asks for a service_.

ETRANGÈRE, _f._ (familiar), piquer l’----, _to allow one’s thoughts to wander from a subject_, “to be wool gathering.” Noble ----, _silver five-franc piece_.

ETRANGLER (familiar), un perroquet, _to drink a glass of absinthe_; ---- une dette, _to pay off a debt_.

ETRE (gay girls’), à la campagne, _to be confined at the prison of Saint-Lazare_ (a prison for women, mostly street-walkers). (Popular) Etre à la cascade, _to be joyous_; ---- à l’enterrement, _to feel dull_; ---- à la manque, _to deceive_; _to betray_; ---- à la paille, _to be half dead_; ---- à l’ombre, _to be dead_; _to be in prison_; ---- à pot et à feu avec quelqu’un, _to be on intimate terms with one_; ---- argenté, _to have funds_; ---- au sac, _to have plenty of money_; ---- bien, _to be tipsy_, or “to be hoodman;” ---- bref, _to be short of cash_; ---- complet, see COMPLET; ---- crotté, _to be penniless_; (familiar and popular) ---- dans le troisième dessous, see DESSOUS; ---- dans les papiers de quelqu’un, _to be in one’s confidence_; ---- dans les vignes, or dans la vigne du Seigneur, _to be drunk_; ---- dans ses petits souliers, _to be ill at ease_; ---- de la bonne, _to be lucky_; ---- de la fête, _to be happy, lucky_; ---- de la haute, _to belong to the aristocracy_; _to be a swell_; ---- de la paroisse de la nigauderie, _to be simple-minded_; ---- de la paroisse de Saint-Jean le Rond, _to be drunk_, or “screwed;” ---- de la procession, _to belong to a trade or profession_; ---- de l’F, see F; ---- démâté, _to be old_; ---- dessous, _to be drunk_; ---- du bâtiment, _to belong to a profession mentioned_; ---- d’un bon suif, _to be ridiculous or badly dressed_, _to be a_ “guy;” ---- du 14ᵉ bénédictins, _to be a fool_; ---- en train, _to be getting tipsy_, see SCULPTER; ---- exproprié, _to die_, see CASSER SA PIPE; ---- fort au batonnet, see BATONNET; ---- le bœuf, see BŒUF; ---- paf, _to be drunk_, see POMPETTE; ---- près de ses pièces, _to be hard up for cash_; (sailors’) ---- pris dans la balancine, _to be in a fix, in a_ “hole;” ---- vent dessus or vent dedans, _to be drunk_, see POMPETTE; (thieves’) ---- sur la planche, _to be had up before the magistrate_; ---- bien portant, _to be at large_; ---- dans la purée, ---- fauché, ---- molle, _to be penniless_; (bullies’) ---- sur le sable, _to be without means of existence, that is, without a mistress_. (Familiar) En ----, _to be a spy or detective_; _to be a Sodomist_.

ETRENNER (general), _to receive a thrashing_, “to get a drubbing.” See VOIE.

ETRIERS, _m. pl._ (cavalry), avoir les ---- trop courts _is said of a man with bandy legs_.

ETRILLAGE, _m._ (popular), _loss of money_.

ETRILLER (general), _to fleece_, “to shave.”

ETROITE, _f._ (popular), faire l’----, _to be affected_, or “high falutin;” _to play the prude_.

ETRON DE MOUCHE, _m._ (thieves’), _wax_, conveniently used for taking the impress of keyholes.

ETRUSQUE, _adj._ (familiar), _old-fashioned_.

ET TA SŒUR (popular), _expression of refusal, disbelief, or a contemptuous reply to insulting words_.

Une fille s’était empoignée avec son amant, à la porte d’un
bastringue, l’appelant sale mufe et cochon malade, tandis
que l’amant répétait, “et ta sœur?” sans trouver autre
chose.--=ZOLA.=

ETUDIANT DE LA GRÈVE, _m._ (popular), _mason_.

ETUDIANTE, _f._ (familiar), _student’s mistress_, _his_ “tartlet.”

ETUI, _m._ (popular), _skin_, or “buff;” ---- à lorgnette, _coffin_. (Soldiers’) Etuis de mains courantes, _boots_.

EVANOUIR (popular), s’----, _to make off_, or “to bunk;” _to die_. See PIPE.

EVANOUISSEMENT, _m._ (popular), _flight_.

EVAPORER (popular), _to steal adroitly_. S’----, _to vanish_, “to mizzle.”

EVENTAIL À BOURRIQUE, _m._ (popular), _stick_, or “toco.”

EVENTRER UNE NÉGRESSE (popular), _to drink a bottle of wine_.

EVÊQUE DE CAMPAGNE, _m._ (popular), _a hanged person_. From the expression, Bénir des pieds, _to be hanged_, and properly _to bless with one’s feet_.

EVER GOAD HE VUGALE (Breton), _drunkard_. Literally _drinker of his children’s blood_.

EXBALANCER (thieves’), _to send one away; to dismiss him_.

EXCELLENT BON, _m._ (familiar), _young dandy_.

EXÉCUTER (familiar), s’----, _to comply with a request_; _to fulfil one’s promise_; _to pay unwillingly rather than otherwise_.

EXHIBER (cads’), _to look at_, “to pipe.” Nib de flanche, on t’exhibe, _stop your game, they are looking at you_. Exhiber son prussien, _to run away_.

EXHUMÉ, _m._ (familiar), _swell_, “masher.” An allusion to the cadaverous appearance of most French “mashers.” See GOMMEUX.

EXPLIQUER (military and popular), s’----, _to fight a duel_; _to fight_.

Sauf el’ bandeau
Qu’a s’coll’ chaqu’ fois su’ l’coin d’la hure,
Après qu’ nous nous somm’s expliqués,
C’est pas qu’ j’aim’ y taper dans l’nez;
J’haï ça; c’est cont’ ma nature.

=GILL=, _La Muse à Bibi_.

EXTRA, _m._ (popular), _good dinner_; _guest at a military mess_.

EXTRAIT DE GARNI, _m._ (popular), _dirty servant_; _slattern_.

EXTRAVAGANT, _m._ (popular), _glass of beer of unusual size_, “galopin” being the appellation for a small one. The latter term is quite recent as used with the above signification. According to the _Dict. Comique_ it meant formerly _a small measure for wine_:--

Galopin, c’est une petite mesure de vin, ce qu’on appelle à
Paris un demi-setier.--=LE ROUX.=

F

F, être de l’---- (popular), that is, être fichu, flambé, foutu, fricassé, frit, fumé, _to be lost, ruined_, “cracked up,” “gone to smash.”

FABRICANT, _m._ (popular), de culbutes, or de fourreaux, _tailor_, “rag-stabber.” Je me suis carmé d’une bath pelure chez le ---- de culbutes, _I have bought a fine coat at the tailor’s_.

FABRICATION, _f._ (thieves’), passer à la ----, or être fabriqué, _to be apprehended_. Faire passer à la ----, _to apprehend_.

FABRIQUER (thieves’), _to apprehend_, “to smug;” _to steal_, “to claim;” ---- un gas à la flan, à la rencontre, or à la dure, _to rob from the person with violence_, “to jump;” ---- un poivrot, _to rob a drunkard_.

FAÇADE, _f._ (popular), _head_, or “nut;” _face_, or “mug.” (Cocottes’) Se faire la ----, _to paint one’s face_, in other words, “to stick slap” _on one’s face_.

FACE, _f._ (popular and thieves’), _a sou_.

Je ne donnerais pas une face de ta sorbonne si l’on tenait
l’argent.--=BALZAC.=

Face du Grand Turc, _the behind_.

FACE! _an exclamation used when a smash of glass or crockery is heard_, the word being the French rendering for the exclamation “heads!” at pitch and toss.

FACILE À LA DÉTENTE (popular), _is said of one who readily settles a debt, or opens the strings of his purse_.

FACTIONNAIRE, _m._ (popular), poser un ----, _to ease oneself_. Relever un ----, _to slip out of a workshop in order to go and drink a glass of wine kept ready by a comrade at a neighbouring wine-shop_.

FACTURIER, _m._ (theatrical), _one whose spécialité is to produce songs termed_ “couplets de facture,” _for the stage or music halls_.

FADAGE, _m._ (thieves’), _the act of sharing the plunder_, or “cutting it up.”

FADARD, _adj. and m._ (popular), _dandy_, or “gorger.” For synonyms see GOMMEUX.

FADE, _m._ (popular), _a fop or empty swell_, a “dundreary;” _one’s share in the reckoning_, or “shot;” _a workman’s wages_. Toucher son ----, _to receive one’s wages_. (Thieves’) Fade, _a rogue’s share in the proceeds of a robbery_, or “whack;” _money_, or “pieces.”

Puisque je ne l’ai plus, elle, pas plus que je n’ai du
fade, Charlot peut aiguiser son couperet, je ne regrette
plus ma tête.--_Mémoires de Monsieur Claude._

FADÉ, _adj._ (popular), _drunk_, or “screwed.” See POMPETTE. Etre bien ----, _to be quite drunk_, or “scammered;” _to have received a good share_; _to be well treated by fate_. Is used also ironically or sorrowfully: Me voilà bien ----! _a bad job for me! Here I am in a fine plight!_ (Thieves’) Etre ----, _to have received one’s share of ill-gotten gains_; _to have had one’s_ “whack.”

FADER (thieves’), _to divide the booty among the participators in a robbery_, “to nap the regulars,” or “to cut up.”

FADEURS, _f. pl._ (popular), des ----! _nonsense!_ “all my eye!” Concerning this English rendering the supplementary _English Glossary_ says: “All my eye, _nonsense, untrue_. Sometimes ‘All my eye and Betty Martin.’ The explanation that it was the beginning of a prayer, ‘O mihi beate Martine,’ will not hold water. Dr. Butler, when headmaster of Shrewsbury, ... told his boys that it arose from a gipsy woman in Shrewsbury named Betty Martin giving a black eye to a constable, who was chaffed by the boys accordingly. The expression must have been common in 1837, as Dickens gives one of the Brick Lane Temperance testimonials as from ‘Betty Martin, widow, one child, and one eye.’--_Pickwick_, ch. xxxiii.”

FAFELARD, _m._ (thieves’), _passport_; _bank note_, or “soft;” ---- à la manque, _forged note_, or “queer soft;” ---- d’emballage, _warrant of arrest_.

FAFFE, _m._ (thieves’), _paper_; ---- à roulotter, _cigarette paper_; _bank note_, or “soft.”

FAFIOT, _m._ (popular and thieves’), _document_, or “fakement;” _shoe_, or “trotter case.” See RIPATON. Fafiot, _bank note_, or “soft.”

Fafiot! n’entendez-vous pas le bruissement du papier de
soie?--=BALZAC.=

Fafiot garaté, _banknote_, or “soft.” An allusion to the signature of the cashier M. Garat, which notes of the Banque de France formerly bore.

On invente les billets de banque, le bagne les appelle
des fafiots garatés, du nom de Garat, le caissier qui les
signe.--=BALZAC.=

Un ---- en bas âge, _a one hundred franc note_. Un ---- femelle, _a five hundred franc note_. Un ---- lof, _a false begging petition; forged certificate, or false passport_, “fakement.” Un ---- mâle, _a one thousand franc note_.

Le billet de mille francs est un fafiot mâle, le billet de
cinq cents francs un fafiot femelle.--=BALZAC.=

Un ---- sec, _a genuine certificate or passport_. Fabriquer des fafiots, or du fafelard à la manque, _to forge bank notes_, “to fake queer soft.”

FAFIOTEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _paper manufacturer or merchant_; _banker_, “rag-shop boss;” _writer_; (popular) _cobbler_, or “snob.”

FAFLARD. See FAFELARD.

FAGAUT (thieves’), the word faut disguised. Il ne ---- dégueularder sur sa fiole, _we must say nothing about him_.

FAGOT, COTTERET, or FALOURDE, _m._ (thieves’), _convict_, probably from his being tied up like a bundle of sticks. Un ---- à perte de vue, _one sentenced to penal servitude for life_, or “lifer.” Un ---- affranchi, _a liberated convict_, or “lag.” Un ---- en campe, _an escaped felon_. (Familiar) Un ----, _a candidate for the Ecole des Eaux et Forêts, a government training school for surveyors of State forests and canals_.

FAGOTIN, _m._ (popular), _vagrant_, _tramp_, “abraham-man,” or “piky.”

FAIBLARD, _m._ (popular), _sickly looking, weak person_. Called in English slang “barber’s cat,” a term used in connection with an expression too coarse to print, according to the _Slang Dictionary_.

FAIGNANT, _m._ (popular), _coward_. A corruption of fainéant, _idle fellow_.

FAILLI CHIEN, _m._ (sailors’), _scamp_. Un ---- de terrien, _a lubberly landsman_.

Le bateau va comme en rivière une gabarre,
Sans personne au compas, et le mousse à la barre,
Il faudrait n’être qu’un failli chien de terrien,
Pour geindre en ce moment et se plaindre de rien.

=RICHEPIN=, _La Mer_.

FAÎNE, _f._ (popular), _a sou_.

FAININ, _m._ (popular), _a centime_.

FAIRE (general), _to steal_, “to prig.” See GRINCHIR.

Non qu’ils déboursent rien pour entrer, car ils font
Leur contre-marque aux gens qui sortent....

=RICHEPIN=, _La Chanson des Gueux_.

Faire son nez, _to look crestfallen_, _to look_ “glum;” ---- son beurre, _to benefit by_; _to make profits_.

Il m’a assuré que le général de Carpentras avait plus de
quatre millions de rente. Je gagne bien de l’argent, moi,
mais je ferais bien mon beurre avec ça.--=E. MONTEIL.=

(Thieves’) Faire banque, _to kill_, see REFROIDIR; ---- un poivrot, _to pick the pockets or steal the clothes of a drunken man_, “bug-hunting;” ---- des yeux de hareng, _to put a man’s eyes out_; ---- flotter un pante, _to drown one_; ---- du ragoût or regoût, _to talk about another’s actions, and thus to awaken the suspicions of the police_.

Ne fais pas du ragoût sur ton dab! (n’éveille pas
les soupçons sur ton maître!) dit tout bas Jacques
Collin.--=BALZAC.=

Faire la balle élastique, _to go with an empty belly_, “to be bandied.” Literally _to be as light as an india-rubber ball_; ---- la console, or consolation, _one of a series of card-sharping games, termed as follows_, “arranger les pantres,” or “bonneteau,” “un coup de bonnet,” or “parfaite,” “flambotté aux rotins,” or “anglaise;” ---- la bride, _to steal watch-guards_, “to buz slangs;” ---- la fuite, la jat jat, la paire, le patatrot, faire cric, faire vite, _to run away_, “to make beef, or to guy.” See PATATROT. Faire la grande soulasse sur le trimar, _to murder on the highway_; ---- la grèce, or plumer le pantre, _to entice a traveller from a railway station into a café, where he is robbed of his money at a swindling game of cards_; ---- la retourne des baguenaudes, _to pick the pockets of a helpless man_, “to fake a cly;” ---- la souris, _to rob stealthily_, “to nip;” ---- la tire, _to pick pockets, generally by means of a pair of scissors delicately inserted, or a double-bladed penknife_, “to fake a cly;” ---- la tire à la chicane, explained by quotation:--

Ils font la tire à la chicane, en tournant le dos à celui
qu’ils dépouillent.--=DU CAMP.=

Faire la tortue, _to go without any food_; ---- le barbot dans une cambriolle, _to steal property from a room_, “to do a crib;” ---- le bobe, _to steal watches_, “toy getting;” ---- l’égard, _to retain for oneself the proceeds of a robbery_; ---- le gaf, _to watch_, “to nark, to give a roasting, to nose, to lay, or to dick;” ---- le lézard, _to decamp_, “to guy,” see PATATROT; ---- le morlingue, _to steal a purse_, “to buz a skin or poge;” ---- le mouchoir, _to steal pocket-handkerchiefs_, called “stook hauling, fogle hunting, or drawing the wipe;” ---- le pantre, _to play the fool_; ---- le rendème or rendémi, _to swindle a tradesman by picking up again from his counter a gold coin tendered for payment, and making off with both coin and change_; ---- nonne _is said of accomplices_, or “jollies,” _who form a small crowd so as to facilitate a thief’s operations_; ---- la balle à quelqu’un, _to carry out one’s instructions_.

Fais sa balle! (suis ses instructions), dit
Fil-de-Soie.--=BALZAC=, _La Dernière Incarnation de
Vautrin_.

Faire son temps, _to undergo a full term of imprisonment_; ---- sauter la coupe, _to place, by dexterous manipulation, the cut card on the top, instead of at the bottom of the pack_, termed by English card-sharpers “slipping;” ---- suer un chêne, _to kill a man_, “to cook his goose.” See REFROIDIR. Faire sur l’orgue, _to inform against_, “to blow the gaff;” ---- un coup à l’esbrouffe, _to pick a person’s pockets while hustling him_, “to flimp;” ---- un coup d’étal, _to steal property from a shop_. A shoplifter is termed in English cant “buttock and file;” ---- un coup de fourchette, _to pick a pocket by delicately inserting two fingers only_; ---- coup de roulotte, _to steal property from a vehicle_; ---- un rancart, _to procure information_; ---- une maison entière, _to break into a house and to massacre all the inmates_; (artists’) ---- chaud, _to use warm tints in a painting, after the style of Rembrandt and other colourists_; ---- culotte, ---- rôti, _comparative and superlative of_ faire chaud; ---- cru, _to use crude tints in a picture_, for instance, to use blue or red without any adjunction of another colour; ---- cuire sa toile, _to employ very warm tints in the painting of a picture_; ---- transparent, _to paint in clair obscur, or “chiaro oscuro;”_ ---- lanterne, _to exaggerate the “chiaro oscuro;”_ ---- grenouillard or croustillant, _to paint in masterly, bold, dashing style, with_ “brio.” The expression is used also in reference to the statuary art. The works of the painter Delacroix and those of the sculptor Préault are executed in that style; ---- sa cimaise sur quelqu’un. See CIMAISE. Faire un pétard, _to paint a sensational picture for the Salon_. The _Salomé_ of H. Regnault, his masterpiece, may be termed a “pétard;” ---- des crêpes, _to have a grand jollification_, or “flare up;” (freemasons’) ---- feu, _to drink_; (theatrical) ---- feu, _to lay peculiar stress on words_; (mountebanks’) ---- la manche, _to make a collection of money among the public_, or “nobbing;” (popular) ---- à la redresse, _to set one right_, _to correct one_; ---- danser un homme sur une pelle à feu _is said of a woman who freely spends a man’s money_; (familiar and popular) ---- brûler Moscou, _to mix a large bowl of punch_; ---- cabriolet, _to drag oneself along on one’s behind_; ---- cascader, see CASCADER; ---- de cent sous quatre francs, _to squander one’s money_; ---- de la musique, _to make audible remarks about a game which is proceeding_; ---- de la poussière, _to make a great fuss_, _to show off_; ---- de l’épate, _to show off_.

Ces jeunes troupiers font de l’épate, des embarras si vous
aimez mieux.--=J. NORIAC.=

Faire du lard, _to sleep_; _to stay in bed late in the morning_; ---- du suif, _to make unlawful profits, such as those procured by trade assistants who cheat their employers_; ---- faire à quelqu’un blanc de sa bourse, _to draw freely on another’s purse_, _to live at his expense_, “to sponge” _on him_; ---- flanelle, _to visit a brothel with platonic intentions_; ---- godard, _to be starving_; ---- la place pour les pavés à ressort, _to pretend to be looking for employment with a secret hope of not finding any_; ---- la retape, or le trottoir, _to be a street-walker_; ---- l’écureuil, _to give oneself much trouble to little purpose_; ---- le plongeon, _to confess when on the point of death_; _to be ruined_, “to be smashed up;” ---- mal, _to excite contemptuous pity_. Tiens, tu me fais mal! _well, I pity you!_ _I am sorry for you!_ Faire passer le goût du pain, _to kill_, “to give one his gruel;” ---- patrouille, _to go on night revels with a number of boon companions_, “to be on the tiles.”

Quatre jours en patrouille, pour dire en folies
bachiques.--_Cabarets de Paris._

Faire peau neuve, _to get new clothes_; ---- petite chapelle _is said of a woman who tucks up her clothes_; ---- pieds neufs, _to be in childbed_, or “in the straw;” ---- pleurer son aveugle, _to void urine_, “to pump ship.” See LASCAILLER. Faire saluer le polichinelle, _to be more successful than others_. An allusion to certain games at fairs, when a successful shy brings out a puppet-head like a Jack-in-the-box; ---- sa Lucie, or sa Sophie, _to play the prude_, _to give oneself conceited or disdainful airs_; ---- sa merde, or sa poire, _to have self-satisfied, conceited airs_; _to take up an arrogant position_; _assuming an air of superiority_; _to be on the_ “high jinks;” ---- sa tata _is said of a talkative person, or of one who assumes an air of importance; of a girl, for example, who plays the little woman_; ---- ses petits paquets, _to be dying_; ---- son Cambronne, _an euphemism for a coarse expression_, “faire sa merde” (which see); ---- son lézard, _to be dozing during the daytime_, like a lizard basking in the sun; ---- un bœuf, _to guillotine_; _to give cards_; ---- suer, _to annoy_; _to disgust_.

Ainsi, leur politique extérieure, vrai! ça fait suer depuis
quelque temps.--=ZOLA=, _L’Assommoir_.

Faire un tassement, or un trou, _to drink spirits in the course of a meal for the purpose of getting up a fresh appetite_, synonymous of “faire le trou du Normand;” ---- une femme, _to succeed in finding a woman willing to give her favours_; ---- son fendant, _to bluster_; _to swagger_; _to look big_. Ne fais donc pas ton fendant, “come off the tall grass!” (an Americanism). Faire une entrée de ballet, _to enter a room without bowing to the company_. En ---- son beurre, _to put to good use, to good profit_.

Et, si ton monsieur est bien nippé, démande-lui un vieux
paletot, j’en ferai mon beurre.--=ZOLA=, _L’Assommoir_.

La ---- à quelqu’un, _to deceive_, “to bamboozle” _one_. Faut pas m’la faire! may be rendered by “I don’t take that in;” “no go;” “not for Joe;” “do you see any green in my eye?” “Walker!”

Vas-tu t’ taire, vas tu t’ taire,
Celle-là faudrait pas m’la faire,
As-tu fini tes façons?
Celle-là nous la connaissons!

_Parisian Song_.

La ---- à, _to seek to impose upon by an affected show of some feigned sentiment_. La ---- à la pose, _to show off_; _to pose_.

J’ pense malgré moi à la gueule dégoûtée que f’rait un
décadent, ou un pessimiste au milieu de ce méli-mêlo.... Y
nous la f’rait diantrement à la pose.--=TRUBLOT=, _Cri du
Peuple_, Sept., 1886.

La ---- à la raideur, _to put on a distant manner_, _to look_ “uppish.” La ---- à l’oseille, _to treat one in an off-hand manner_; _to annoy one_, or “to huff;” _to play a scurvy trick_; _to exaggerate_, “to come it too strong.” According to Delvan, the origin of the expression is the following:--A certain restaurant keeper used to serve up to her clients a mess of eggs and sorrel, in which the sorrel was out of all proportion to the quantity of eggs. One day one of the guests exclaimed in disgust, “Ah! cette fois, tu nous la fais trop à l’oseille!” (Popular) Se ---- caramboler _is said of a woman who gives her favours_.

Elle sentit très bien, malgré son avachissement, que la
culbute de sa petite, en train de se faire caramboler,
l’enfonçait davantage ... oui, ce chameau dénaturé lui
emportait le dernier morceau de son honnêteté.--=ZOLA=,
_L’Assommoir_.

Se ---- relicher, _to get kissed_.

Ah! bien! qu’elle se laissât surprendre à se faire relicher
dehors, elle était sûre de son affaire.... Dès qu’elle
rentrait, ... il la regardait bien en face, pour deviner
si elle ne rapportait pas une souris sur l’œil, un de ces
petits baisers.--=ZOLA=, _L’Assommoir_.

S’en ---- éclater le péritoine, or péter la sous-ventrière, _to eat or drink to excess_, “to scorf.” Tu t’en ferais péter la sous-ventrière, or tu t’en ferais mourir, _expressive of ironical refusal_; _don’t you wish you may get it?_ or, as the Americans have it, “Yes, in a horn.” Se ---- baiser, or choper, _to get abused_; _to be apprehended_. See PIPER. Se ---- la débinette, _to run away_, “to guy,” “to slope.” See PATATROT. La ---- belle, _to be happy_; _to lead a happy life_. Faire des petits pains, du plat, or du boniment, _to eulogize_; _to try and persuade one into complying with one’s wishes_; (military) ---- suisse, _to drink all by oneself at a café or wine-shop_. The cavalry maintain that infantry soldiers alone are capable of so hideous an offence; (printers’) ---- banque blèche, _to get no pay_; (Sodomists’) ---- de la dentelle, the explanation is furnished by the following quotation:--

Tantôt se plaçant dans une foule, ... ils provoquent les
assistants derrière eux en faisant de la dentelle, c’est
à dire en agitant les doigts croisés derrière leur dos,
ou ceux qui sont devant à l’aide de la poussette, en leur
faisant sentir un corps dur, le plus souvent un long
bouchon qu’ils ont disposé dans leur pantalon, de manière a
simuler ce qu’on devine et à exciter ainsi les sens de ceux
qu’ils jugent capables de céder à leur appel.--=TARDIEU=,
_Etude Médico-légale sur les Attentats aux Mœurs_.

(Card-sharpers’) Faire le Saint-Jean, _to cough and spit as a signal to confederates_.

L’invitation acceptée, l’amorceur fait le Saint-Jean,
c’est-à-dire qu’atteint d’une toux subite, il se détourne
pour expectorer bruyamment. A ce signal deux complices se
hâtent de se rendre à l’endroit convenu d’avance.
--=PIERRE DELCOURT=, _Paris Voleur_.

Faire le saut de coupe, _by dexterous manipulation to place the cut card on the top, instead of at the bottom of the pack_, “to slip” _a card_; ---- la carte large, _to insert a card somewhat larger than the rest, and easily recognizable for sharpers’ eyes_, this card being called by English sharpers “old gentleman;” ---- le pont, _cheating trick at cards, by which any particular card is cut by previously curving it by the pressure of the hand_, “bridge;” ---- le filage, _to substitute a card for another_, “to slip” _it_; ---- la carte à l’œil, _to prepare a card in such a manner that it shall be easily recognized by the sharper_. English card-sharpers arrange cards into “concaves and convexes” and “longs and shorts.” By cutting in a peculiar manner, a “concave” or “convex” is secured at will; (thieves’ and cads’) ---- la jactance, _to talk_; _to question_, or “cross-kid;” ---- la bourrique, _to inform against_, “to blow the gaff.” Le curieux lui a fait la jactance, il a entravé et fait la bourrique, _the judge examined him; he allowed himself to be outwitted, and peached_. Faire le saut, _to leave without paying for one’s reckoning_. Se ---- enfiler, _to be apprehended_, or “smugged.” See PIPER. Se ---- enturer, _to be robbed, swindled_; _to lose one’s money at a game_, or “to blew it.” La ---- à l’anguille, _to strike one with an eelskin or handkerchief filled with sand_.

Ah! gredins, dit-il, vous me l’avez faite à l’anguille....
L’anguille ... est cette arme terrible des rôdeurs de
barrière qui ne fournit aucune pièce de conviction, une
fois qu’on s’en est servi. Elle consiste dans un mouchoir
qu’on roule après l’avoir rempli de terre. En tenant cette
sorte de fronde par un bout, tout le poids de la terre va
à l’autre extrémité et forme une masse redoutable.
--=A. LAURIN=, _Le Million de l’Ouvrière_.

Rabelais has the expression “donner l’anguillade,” with the signification of _to strike_. (Military schools’) Faire une brimade, or brimer, _to ill-treat_, _to bully_, termed “to brock” at Winchester School.

FAIS (popular), j’y ----, _I am willing_; _I consent_.

FAISAN, _m._ See BANDE NOIRE.

FAISANDER (popular), se ----, of persons, _to grow old_, _to become rickety_, of things, _to be decayed_, _worn out_, “seedy.”

FAISANDERIE, _f._, or BANDE NOIRE, _swindling gang composed of the_ “frères de la côte, or de la flotte,” _denominated respectively_ “grands faisans,” “petits faisans,” “fusilleurs.” See BANDE NOIRE.

FAISEUR D’ŒIL, _m._ (popular), _Lovelace_.

FAISEUSE D’ANGES, _f._ (familiar), _woman who makes a living by baby-farming, or one who procures a miscarriage by unlawful practices_.

FAITRÉ, _adj._ (thieves’), _lost_; _safe for a conviction_, “booked,” or “hobbled.”

FALOT, _m._ (military), _military cap_.

FALOURDE, _f._ (thieves’), _a returned transport_, a “lag;” (players’) _double six of dominoes_; (popular) ---- engourdie, _corpse_, “cold meat.”

FALZAR, _m._ (popular), _trousers_, “kicks, sit-upons, hams, or trucks.” Sans ---- autour des guibolles, _without any trousers, or with trousers in tatters_.

FAMILIÈRES, _f. pl._, _female prisoners employed as assistants at the prison of Saint-Lazare, and who, in consequence, are allowed more freedom than their fellow-convicts_.

FANAL, _m._ (popular), _throat_, “gutter lane.” S’éclairer le ----, _to drink_, or “to wet one’s whistle.” See RINCER. Colle-toi ça dans l’----, _eat or drink that_. Altérer le ----, _to make one thirsty_.

Ceux-ci insinuent que cette opération a pour but d’altérer
le fanal et de pousser simplement à la consommation.
--=P. MAHALIN.=

FANANDE, _m._ (thieves’), abbreviation of fanandel, _m._, _comrade_, or “pal.”

V’là les fanand’s qui radinent,
Ohé! tas d’ pochetés.

=J. RICHEPIN.=

FANANDEL, _m._ (thieves’), _comrade_, _friend_, “pal.”

Ce mot de fanandel veut dire à la fois: frères, amis,
camarades. Tous les voleurs, les forçats, les prisonniers
sont fanandels.--=BALZAC.=

FANER (popular). Mon verre se fane, _my glass is empty_. (Thieves’) Fourche à ----, _horseman_.

FANFARE, _f._ (popular), sale truc pour la ----! exclamation of disgust, _a bad look-out for us!_

FANFE, _f._ See FAUVE.

FANFOUINER (thieves’), _to take snuff_.

FANFOUINEUR, _m._, FANFOUINEUSE, _f._ (thieves’), _person who is in the habit of taking snuff_.

FANTABOSSE, or FANTASBOCHE, _m._ (military), _infantry soldier_, “beetle-crusher,” or “grabby.”

FANTASIA, _f._ (familiar), _noisy proceeding more brilliant than useful_. An allusion to the fantasia of Arab horsemen. Donner dans la ----, _to be fond of noisily showing off_. (Popular) Une ----, _a whim_, or “fad.”

FANTASSIN, _m._ (military), _bolster_.

FAOEN (Breton), _riddle_.

FARAUD, _m._ (thieves’), _gentleman_, “nib cove.”

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

FARAUDEC, FARAUDETTE, _f._ (thieves’), _young girl_, or “lunan.”

FARCE, _f._ (general), en avoir la ----, _to be able to procure_. Pour deux sous on en a la ----, _an expenditure of one penny will procure it for you_. Une ---- de fumiste, _a practical joke_.

Veut-on savoir d’où vient l’origine de cette locution:
une farce de fumiste? Elle provient de la manière
d’opérer d’une bande de voleurs fumistes de profession,
... ils montaient dans les cheminées pour dévaliser les
appartements déserts et en faire sortir les objets les plus
précieux par les toits.--_Mémoires de Monsieur Claude._

FARCEUR, _m._ (artists’), _human skeleton serving as a model at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, or the Paris Art School_, thus called on account of its being put to use for practical joking at the expense of newcomers.

FARCHER (thieves’), for faucher dans le pont, _to fall into a trap; to allow oneself to be duped, or_ “bested.”

FARD, _m._ (popular), _falsehood_, or “swack up.” Sans ----, _without humbug_, “all square.” Avoir un coup de ----, _to be slightly intoxicated_, or “elevated.” See POMPETTE. (Familiar and popular) Piquer un ----, _to redden_, _to blush_. Fard, properly _rouge_. Termed “to blow” at Winchester School.

FARDACH (Breton), _worthless people_.

FARDER (popular), se ----, _to get tipsy_, “to get screwed.” For synonyms see SCULPTER.

FARE, _f._, _heap of salt in salt-marshes_.

FARFADET, _m._ (popular and thieves’), _horse_, or “prad.”

FAR-FAR, FARRE (popular and thieves’), _quickly_, _in a_ “brace of shakes.”

FARFOUILLER (popular), le ---- dans le tympan, _to whisper in one’s ear_.

FARGUE, _m._ (thieves’), _load_.

FARGUEMENT, _m._ (thieves’), _loading_; _deposition of a witness for the prosecution_.

FARGUER (thieves’), _to load_.

Si vous êtes fargués de marchandises grinchies (si vous
êtes chargés de marchandises volées).--=VIDOCQ.=

FARGUER À LA DURE, _to pounce upon a person and rob him_, “to jump” _him_. Il fagaut farguer à la dure le gonsarès pour lui dégringolarer son bobinarès, _we must attack the fellow to ease him of his watch_.

FARGUEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _man who loads_; _witness for the prosecution_.

FARIDOLE, _f._ (prostitutes’), _female companion_.

FARIDON, _f._ (popular), _poverty_. Etre à la ----, _to be penniless_, or a “quisby.”

FARINEUX, _adj._ (popular), _excellent_, _first class_, “tip top, out and out, clipping, slap up, real jam, true marmalade, nap.”

FARNANDEL, for FANANDEL (which see).

FARRAGO, _m._ (literary), _manuscript with many alterations and corrections_.

FASSOLETTE, _f._ (thieves’), _handkerchief_, “stook,” or “madam.”

FATIGUE, _f._ (thieves’), _certain amount of labour which convicts have to do at the penal servitude settlement_.

FAUBERT, _m._ (marines’), _epaulet_. Properly _a mop_.

FAUBOURG, _m._ (popular), le ---- souffrant, _the Faubourg Saint Marceau_, one of the poorer districts of Paris. Détruire le ---- à quelqu’un, _to give one a kick in the breech_, “to root,” “to hoof one’s bum,” or “to land a kick.”

FAUCHANTS, FAUCHEUX, _m. pl._ (thieves’), _scissors_.

FAUCHÉ, _adj._ (thieves’), être ----, être dans la purée, or être molle, _to be penniless_, or a “quisby.” Etre ----, _to be guillotined_. The synonyms are: “être raccourci, être buté, mettre la tête à la fenêtre, éternuer dans le son, or dans le sac, épouser la veuve, jouer à la main chaude, embrasser Charlot, moufionner son mufle dans le son, tirer sa crampe avec la veuve, passer sa bille au glaive, aller à l’Abbaye de Monte-à-regret, passer à la voyante, être mécanisé, être glaivé.”

FAUCHE-ARDENT, _m._ (thieves’), _snuffers_.

FAUCHER (popular), le persil, _to be a street-walker_. (Thieves’) Faucher, _to deceive_, “to best;” _to steal_, “to claim.” For synonyms see GRINCHIR. Faucher, _to guillotine_. See FAUCHÉ.

Aussitôt les forçats, les ex-galériens, examinent cette
mécanique ... ils l’appellent tout à coup l’Abbaye de
Monte-à-Regret! Ils étudient l’angle décrit par le couperet
d’acier et trouvent pour en peindre l’action, le verbe
faucher!--=BALZAC=, _La Dernière Incarnation de Vautrin_.

Faucher dans le pont, _to fall into a trap_; ---- le colas, _to cut one’s throat_; ---- le grand pré,_ to be undergoing a term of penal servitude at a convict settlement_. The convicts formerly were made to work on galleys, the long oar they plied being compared to a scythe and the sea to a large meadow. Lesage, in his _Gil Blas_, terms this “émoucher la mer avec un éventail de vingt pieds.” A more recent expression describes it as “écrire ses mémoires avec une plume de quinze pieds.”

FAUCHETTES, _f. pl._ (popular and thieves’), _scissors_.

FAUCHEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _thief who steals watch-chains_, “slang or tackle-buzzer;” executioner. Properly _reaper_. Rabelais called him “Rouart,” or _he who breaks on the wheel_; (journalists’) _dandy_. From his peculiar gait.

FAUCHEUX, _m._ (thieves’), _scissors_; (popular) _man with long thin legs_, or “daddy long-legs.” Properly _a field spider_.

FAUCHON, _m._ (popular), _sword_, “toasting-fork.” Un ---- de satou, _a wooden sword_.

FAUCHURE, _f._ (thieves’), _a cut inflicted by some sharp instrument or weapon_.

FAUCONNIER, _m._ (thieves’), _confederate of the proprietor of a gaming-house_.