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FRIMER (thieves’), _to peer into one’s face_. Faire ----, _to place a prisoner in presence of a prosecutor for purpose of identification_. (Popular) Frimer, _to make a good appearance_; _to look well_; _to pretend_. Cet habit frime bien, _this coat looks well_. Ils friment de s’en aller, _they pretend to go away_.

FRIMOUSSE, _f._ (thieves’), _figure card_. (Popular) C’est pour ma ----, _that’s for me_. Literally _physiognomy_.

FRIMOUSSER (card-sharpers’), _to swindle by contriving to turn up the figure cards_.

FRIMOUSSEUR (card-sharpers’), _card-sharper_, “broadsman.”

FRINGUE, _f._ (thieves’), _article of clothing_, “clobber.” (Popular) Les fringues, _players at a game called_ “l’ours.” These stand upright in a knot at the centre of a circle, face to face, with heads bent and arms passed over one another’s shoulders so as to steady themselves. The business of other players outside the circle is to jump on the backs of those in the knot without being caught by one called “le chien” or “l’ours,” who keeps running about in the circle.

FRINGUER (thieves’), se ----, _to dress oneself_, “to rig oneself out in clobber.”

FRIPE, _f._ (popular), _food_, “prog.” From the old word fripper, _to eat_; _cooking of food_; _expense_; _share in the reckoning_, or “shot;” ---- sauce, _cook_, or “dripping.” Faire la ----, _to cook_.

FRIPIER, _m._ (popular and thieves’), _cook_, or “dripping;” _master of an eating-house, of a_ “carnish ken.”

FRIPOUILLE, _f._ (familiar), _rogue_; _scamp_. From fripe, _rag_. Tout ce monde là c’est de la ----, _these people are a bad lot_.

FRIQUES, _f. pl._ (thieves’), _rags_.

FRIQUET, _m._ (thieves’), _spy in the employ of the police_, “nark,” or “nose.”

FRIRE UN RIGOLO (thieves’), _to pick the pockets of a person while embracing him, under a pretence of mistaken identity_.

FRISCHTI, _m._ (military), _dainty food; stew_.

FRISÉ, _m._ (popular), _Jew_, “sheney,” or “mouchey.” Termed also “youtre, pied-plat, guinal.”

FRISQUE, _m._ (popular), _cold_.

Le frisque du matin, qui ravigote le sang, qui cingle la
vie--=RICHEPIN=, _Le Pavé_.

FRISSANTE, _f. adj._ (sailors’), _with gentle ripples_.

La mé n’est pas toujours rêche comme une étrille.
Vois, elle est douce, un peu frissante, mais pas plus.

=RICHEPIN=, _La Mer_.

FRITES, _f. pl._ (popular), for pommes de terre frites, _fried potatoes_. Termed “greasers” at the R. M. Academy.

FRITURER (popular), _to cook_.

FRIVOLISTE, _m._ (literary), _light writer_; _contributor, for instance, to a journal of fashion_.

FROISSEUX, _adj._ (popular), _traitor_, “cat-in-the-pan;” _slanderer_. From froisser, _to hurt one’s feelings_.

FROLLANT, _m._ (thieves’), _slanderer_; _traitor, one who_ “turns snitch.”

FROLLER (thieves’), sur la balle, _to slander one_. From the old word frôler, _to thrash, to injure_.

FROMGIBE, _m._ (popular), _cheese_.

FRONT, _m._ (popular), avoir le ---- dans le cou, _to be bald, to be_ “stag-faced.”

FROTESKA, _f._ (popular), _thrashing_, “tanning,” or “hiding.” See VOIE.

FROTIN, _m._ (popular), _billiards_, or “spoof.” Coup de ----, _game of billiards_. Flancher au ----, _to play billiards_.

FROTTE, _f._ (popular), _itch_.

FROTTÉE, _f._ (familiar and popular), _thrashing_, or “licking.” See VOIE.

Cinq ou six matelots de l’Albatros furent attaqués par une
dizaine de marins du Mary-Ann et reçurent une des plus
vénérables frottées dont on eût ouï parler sur la côte du
Pacifique.--=J. CLARETIE.=

FROTTER (gamesters’), se ---- au bonheur de quelqu’un. The expression is explained by the following quotation:--

Le joueur est superstitieux, il croit au fétiche. Un
bossu gagne-t-il, on voit des pontes acharnés se grouper
autour de lui pour lui toucher sa bosse et se frotter à
son bonheur. A Vichy, les joueurs sont munis de pattes de
lapin pour toucher délicatement le dos des heureux du tapis
vert.--_Mémoires de Monsieur Claude._

FROUFROU, _m._ (thieves’), _master-key_.

FROUSSE, _f._ (popular and thieves’), _diarrhœa_; _fear_.

J’ai fait chibis. J’avais la frousse
Des préfectanciers de Pantin.

=RICHEPIN.=

FRUCTIDORISER (familiar), _to suppress one’s political adversaries by violent means, such as transportation wholesale_. An allusion to the 18th Fructidor or 4th September, 1797.

FRUGES, _f. pl._ (popular), _more or less lawful profits on sales by shopmen_. English railway ticket-clerks give the name of “fluff” to profits accruing from short change given by them.

FRUSQUE, _f._ (popular), _coat_, “Benjamin.”

FRUSQUES, _f. pl._ (general), _clothing_, “toggery,” or “clobber;” ---- boulinées, _clothes in tatters_.

On allait ... choisir ses frusques chez Milon, qui avait
des costumes moins brillants.--=E. MONTEIL.=

FRUSQUINER (popular), se ----, _to dress_, “to rig” _oneself out_.

FRUSQUINEUR, _m._ (popular), _tailor_, “snip, steel-bar driver, cabbage contractor, or button catcher.”

FRUSQUINS, _m. pl._ (popular), _clothes_, or “toggery.”

FUIR (popular), laisser ---- son tonneau, _to die_. For synonyms see PIPE.

FUMÉ, _adj._ (familiar and popular), _to be in an awful fix, past praying for_, “a gone coon.” With regard to the English slang equivalent, the _Slang Dictionary_ says: “This expression is said to have originated in the first American War with a spy who dressed himself in a racoon skin, and ensconced himself in a tree. An English soldier, taking him for a veritable coon, levelled his piece at him, upon which he exclaimed, ‘Don’t shoot, I’ll come down of myself; I know I’m a gone coon.’ The Yankees say the Britisher was so ‘flummuxed’ that he flung down his musket and ‘made tracks’ for home.” The phrase is pretty general in England. (There is one difficulty about this story--how big was the man who dressed himself in a racoon skin?)

FUMER (popular), _to snore_, “to drive one’s pigs to market;” ---- sans pipe et sans tabac, _to be_ “riled;” _to fume_. Avoir fumé dans une pipe neuve, _to feel unwell in consequence of prolonged potations_.

FUMERIE, _f._ (popular), _smoking_, “blowing a cloud.”

FUMERON, _m._ (popular), _hypocrite_, “mawworm.”

FUMERONS, _m. pl._ (popular), _legs_, “pegs.”

FUMISTE, _m._ (familiar), _practical joker_; _humbug_. Farce de ----, _practical joke_. For quotation see FARCE. (Polytechnic School) Etre en ----, _to be in civilian’s clothes_, “in mufti.”

FUSEAUX, _m. pl._ (popular), _legs_, or “pins.” Jouer des ----, _to run_, “to leg it.” See PATATROT.

Il juge qu’il est temps de jouer des fuseaux, mais au
moment où il se dispose à gagner plus au pied qu’à la toise
... le garçon le saisit à la gorge.--=VIDOCQ.=

FUSÉE, _f._ (popular), lâcher une ----, _to be sick_, “to shoot the cat.”

FUSER (popular), _to ease oneself_ See MOUSCAILLER.

FUSIL, _m._ (popular), _stomach_; ---- à deux coups, _trousers_; ---- de toile, _wallet_. Aller à la chasse avec un ---- de toile, _to beg_. Colle-toi ça dans le ----, _eat or drink that_; _put that in your_ “bread-basket.” Ecarter du ----, _to spit involuntarily when talking_. Se rincer, se gargariser le ----, _to drink_, “to swig.” See RINCER. Changer son ---- d’épaule, _to change one’s political opinions_, _to turn one’s coat_. Repousser du ----, _to have an offensive breath_.

FUSILIER (military), _to spend money_. Literally faire partir ses balles, the last word having the double signification of _bullets_, _francs_; ---- ses invités, _to give one’s guests a bad dinner_; ---- le pavé, _to use one’s fingers as a pocket-handkerchief_; ---- le plancher, _to set off at a run_; ---- son pèse, _to spend one’s money_; (thieves’) ---- le fade, _to give one’s share of booty_; _to make one_ “stand in.”

FUSILLEUR, _m._ See BANDE NOIRE.

FUTAILLE, _f._ (thieves’), vieille ----, _old woman_.

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GABARI, _m._ (popular), passer au ----, _to lose a game_.

GABARIT, _m._ (sailors’), _body_; _breast_; ---- sans bossoirs, _breast with thin bosoms_.

J’aime pas bien son gabarit sans bossoirs. Elle a plutôt
l’air d’un moussaillon que d’autre chose.--=RICHEPIN=, _La
Glu_.

GABELOU, _m._ (common), _a custom-house officer, or one of the “octroi.”_

Bras Rouge est contrebandier ... il s’en vante au nez des
gabelous.--=E. SUE=, _Les Mystères de Paris_.

GÂCHER (popular), serré, _to work hard_, “to sweat;” ---- du gros, _to ease oneself_.

GADIN, _m._ (popular), _cork_; _shabby hat_. Flancher au ----, _to play a gambling kind of game with a cork and coins_. Some halfpence being placed on the cork, the players aim in turns with a coin. A favourite game of Paris cads.

GADOUARD, _m._ (popular), _scavenger_, a “rake-kennel.” From gadoue, _street refuse or mud_.

GADOUE, _f._ (familiar and popular), _prostitute_. Properly _street mud or refuse_.

File, mon fiston, roule ta gadoue, mon homme, ça
pue.--_Catéchisme Poissard_.

The slang terms for the different varieties of prostitutes are, in familiar and popular language: “cocotte, demi-mondaine, horizontale, verticale, agenouillée, déhanchée impure, petite dame, lorette, camélia, boulevardière, pêche à quinze sous, belle petite, soupeuse, grue, lolo, biche, vieille garde (_old prostitute_), fille de trottoir, gueuse, maquillée, ningle, pélican, pailletée, laqueuse, chameau, membre de la caravane, demi-castor, passe-lacet, demoiselle du Pont-Neuf, matelas ambulant, boulonnaise (_one who plies her trade in the Bois de Boulogne_), crevette, trumeau, traîneuse, fenêtrière, trychine, cul crotté, omnibus, carcan à crinoline, pieuvre, pigeon voyageur, piqueuse de trains, marcheuse, morue, fleur de macadam, vache à lait, camelote, roulante, raccrocheuse, génisse, almanach des trente-six mille adresses, chausson, hirondelle de goguenot, moelonneuse, mal peignée, persilleuse, lard, blanchisseuse en chemises, planche à boudin, galvaudeuse, poule, mouquette, poupée, fille de tourneur, fille de maison or à numéro, boutonnière en pantalons, fille en carte or en brème, lésébombe, baleine, traînée, demoiselle du bitume, vessie, boule rouge (_one who walks the Faubourg Montmartre_), voirie, rivette, fille à parties, terrière, terreuse, femme de terrain, rempardeuse, grenier à coups de sabre, saucisse, peau, peau de chien, vésuvienne, autel de besoin, cité d’amour, mangeuse de viande crue, dessalée, punaise, polisseuse de mâts de cocagne en chambre, pompe funèbre, polisseuse de tuyaux de pipe, pontonnière, pont d’Avignon, veau, vache, blanc, feuille, lanterne, magneuse, lipète, chamègue, bourdon, pierreuse, marneuse, paillasse de corps de garde, paillasse à troufion, rouleuse, dossière, fille de barrière, roulure, andre (old word), Jeanneton, taupe, limace, waggon, retapeuse, sommier de caserne, femme de cavoisi, prat, sauterelle, tapeuse de tal, magnée, torchon.” The bullies of unfortunates call them “marmite, fesse, ouvrière, Louis, ponife, galupe, laisée.” Thieves give them the appellations of “lutainpem, môme, ponante, calège, panuche, asticot, bourre de soie, panturne, rutière, ronfle, goipeuse, casserole, magnuce, larguèpe, larque, menesse, louille.” In the English slang they are termed: “anonyma, pretty horse-breaker, demi-rep, tartlet, mot, common Jack, bunter, trollop, bed-fagot, shake, poll, dollymop, blowen, bulker, gay woman, unfortunate, barrack-hack, dress lodger, bawdy basket, mauks, and quædam” (obsolete), &c.

GAFFE, _m. and f._ (thieves’), _sentry_; _thief on the watch_, or “crow;” _prison warder_, or “bloke.”

Les gaffes (gardiens) ont la vie dure. Ils tiennent sur
leurs pattes comme des chats ... si je l’ai manqué, je
ne me suis pas manqué, moi, je suis sûr d’aller à la
butte.--_Mémoires de Monsieur Claude_.

Gaffe à gail, _mounted police_; ---- de sorgue, _night watchman_; ---- des machabées, _cemetery watchman_. Etre en ----, faire ----, _to be on the watch_, “to dick.”

Riboulet et moi, nous étions restés en gaffe afin de donner
l’éveil en cas d’alerte.--=VIDOCQ.=

Grivier de ----, _soldier of the watch_. (Popular) Gaffe, _f._, _joke_; _deceit_; _tongue_, or “red rag.” Avaler sa ----, _to die_, “to snuff it.” See PIPE. Coup de ----, _loud talking_, “jawing.” Monter une ----, _to play a trick_; _to deceive_, “to bamboozle,” “to pull the leg.” (Familiar) Faire une ----, _to take an inconsiderate step_; _to make an awkward mistake_, “to put one’s foot in it.”

GAFFER (thieves’), _to watch_, “to dick;” _to look_, “to pipe;” ---- la mirette, _to keep a sharp look-out_. Gaffe les péniches du gonse, _look at that man’s shoes_. Gaffer, _to cause to stand_; _to stop_.

Il fallait faire gaffer un roulant pour y planquer les
paccins (il fallait faire stationner un fiacre pour y
placer les paquets).--=VIDOCQ.=

GAFFEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _man on the watch_.

GAFFIER, _m._ (thieves’), _pickpocket who operates at markets_; _warder in a prison or convict settlement_, a “screw.”

GAFFINER (thieves’ and cads’), _to look at_, “to pipe.” Gaffine lago, la riflette t’exhibe, _look there, the policeman is watching you_, or, in other words, “pipe there, the bulky is dicking.”

GAFILER (thieves’), _to listen attentively_.

GAGA, _m._ (familiar), _man who, through a life of debauchery, has become almost an imbecile_.

GAGNIE, _f._ (popular), _buxom lady_.

GAHISTO, _m._ (thieves’), _the devil_, “ruffin,” or “darble.” From the Basque giztoa, _bad_, _wicked_, according to V. Hugo.

GAI, _adj._ (popular), être ----, _to be slightly tipsy_, or “elevated.” See POMPETTE. Avoir la cuisse gaie _is said of a woman of lax morality who is lavish of her favours_.

GAIL, GALIER, _m._ (thieves’), _horse_, “prad.” Vol au ----, _horse stealing_, or “prad napping.” GAILLARD À TROIS BRINS, _m._ (sailors’), _able sailor_; _old tar_.

J’ai travaillé, mangé, gagné mon pain
parmi
Des gaillards à trois brins qui me traitaient
en mousse.
=RICHEPIN=, _La Mer_.

GAILLON, _m._ (popular and thieves’), _horse_, “prad, nag, or tit.”

GAILLOTERIE, _f._ (popular), _stable_.

GAIMAR (popular), _gaily_; _willingly_. Allons y ----, _let us look alive_; _with a will!_

GALAPIAT, GALAPIAN, GALOPIAU, _m._ (popular), _lazy fellow_, or “bummer;” _street boy_.

Quelle rigolade pour les gamins! Et l’un de ces galapiats
qui a peut-être servi chez des saltimbanques, chipe un
clairon et souffle dedans un air de foire.--=RICHEPIN=, _Le
Pavé_.

GALBE, _m._ (familiar), _elegance_, _dash_. Etre truffé de ----, _to be extremely elegant, dashing_, or “tsing tsing.” Galbe, literally _elegance in the curve of vases, pillars_.

GALBEUX, _adj._ (familiar), _elegant_, _dashing_, “tsing tsing.”

GALERIE, _f._ (familiar), faire ----, to _be one of a number of lookers-on_. Parler pour la ----, _to address to a person words meant in reality for the ears of others, or for the public_.

GALETTE, _f._ (popular), _money_, “tin.” For synonyms see QUIBUS. Boulotter de la ----, _to spend money_. (Military school of Saint-Cyr) Promenade ----, _general marching out_. Sortie ----, _general holiday_.

GALEUX, _m._ (popular), _the master_, or “boss.” Properly _one who has the itch_.

GALFÂTRE, _m._ (popular), _idiot_; _greedy fellow_.

Certes il n’aimait pas les corbeaux, ça lui crevait le
cœur de porter ses six francs à ces galfâtres-là qui n’en
avaient pas besoin pour se tenir le gosier frais.--=ZOLA=,
_L’Assommoir_.

GALIER, _m._ (thieves’), _horse_, or “prad.”

GALIÈRE, _f._ (thieves’), _mare_.

GALIFARD, _m._ (popular), _shoemaker_, or “snob;” _errand boy_; (thieves’) _one who is not yet an adept in the art of thieving_.

GALIFARDE, _f._ (popular), _shop-girl_.

GALIMARD, _m._ (artists’), se touche! _The expression is used in reference to a brother artist who extols his own self or own productions._ For the following explanation I am indebted to Mr. G. D., a French artist well known to the English public:--“Galimard se touche, phrase que vous avez lue probablement dans tous les Rambuteau de Paris, a pris origine dans notre atelier Cogniet. Galimard, un artiste de quelque talent, mais qui se croyait un génie, trouvant qu’on ne s’occupait pas assez de lui, écrivit sur le salon des articles fort bien faits mais par trop sévères pour les confrères. Il avait mis au bas un pseudonyme quelconque. Arrivé au tour de sa fameuse Léda, il ne tarissait pas d’éloges sur cette peinture vraiment médiocre. Bertall, que je connaissais fort bien, découvrit le pot aux roses. Galimard était son propre panégyriste! J’arrive à l’atelier et je dis: ‘Galimard se fait jouir lui-même, c’est lui l’auteur des articles en question.’ De là, le fameux ‘Galimard se touche’ expression maintenant consacrée lorsqu’un artiste parle trop de lui-même. Il faut ajouter que les mots furent écrits dans tous les Rambuteau du Quartier du Temple puis, non seulement à Paris, mais par toute la France. L’empereur acheta la Léda après une tentative criminelle de la part d’un malfaiteur et sur la toile et sur Galimard. On fit une enquête et l’on découvrit que le malfaiteur n’était autre que ... Galimard. L’affaire en resta là. La Léda fut placée au Musée du Luxembourg, après cicatrisation des coups de poignard, bien entendu.”

GALIOTE, _f._ (thieves’), _conspiracy of card-sharpers to swindle a player_.

GALIPOTER (sailors’), _to smear_.

GALLI-BÂTON, _m._ (popular), _general fight_; _great row_, or “shindy.”

GALLI-TRAC, _m._ (popular), _poltroon_, “cow’s babe.”

GALOCHE, _f._ (thieves’), _chin_; (popular) _a game played with a cork and halfpence_.

GALONS, _m. pl._ (military), d’imbécile, _long-service stripes_. Arroser ses ----, _to treat one’s comrades on being made a non-commissioned officer_; _to pay for one’s footing_.

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

GALOPÉ, _adj._ (popular), _done hurriedly_, _carelessly_.

GALOPER (popular), _to annoy; to make unwell_. Ça me galope sur le système, or sur le haricot, _it troubles me_; _it makes me ill_; ---- une femme, _to make hot love to a woman_.

GALOPIN, _m._ (familiar), _small glass of beer at cafés_. Had formerly the signification of _small measure of wine_.

GALOUBET, _m._ (theatrical), _voice_. Avoir du ----, _to possess a good voice_. Donner du ----, _to sing_.

En scène, les fées! Attaquons vivement le chœur d’entrée.
Du galoubet et de l’ensemble!--=P. MAHALIN.=

GALOUSER (thieves’), _to sing_, “to lip.”

GALTOS, _m._ (sailors’), _dish_. Passer à ----, _to eat_. (Popular) Galtos, _money_, or “pieces.” See QUIBUS.

GALTRON, _m._ (thieves’), _foal_.

GALUCHE, _f._ (thieves’), _braid_; _lace_.

GALUCHÉ, _adj._ (thieves’), _braided_; _laced_. Combriot ----, _laced hat_.

GALUCHET, _m._ (popular), _the knave at cards_.

GALUPE, _f._ (thieves’ and popular), _street-walker_, “bunter.” See GADOUE.

Les galup’s qu’a des ducatons
Nous rincent la dent, nous les battons.
=RICHEPIN.=

GALUPIER, _m._ (popular), _man who keeps a_ “galupe.” See this word.

GALURE, GALURIN (popular), _hat_, or “tile.” See TUBARD.

GALVAUDAGE, _m._ (popular), _squandering of one’s money_; _pilfering_.

GALVAUDER (popular), _to squander one’s money_. Se ----, _to lead a disorderly life_.

GALVAUDEUSE, _f._ (popular), _lazy, disorderly woman_; _street-walker_. See GADOUE.

GALVAUDEUX, _m._ (popular), _lazy vagabond_, or “raff;” _disorderly fellow_; _bad workman_.

GAMBETTES, _f. pl._ (popular), _legs_. From the old word gambe, _leg_. Jouer des ----, _to run_. See PATATROT.

GAMBIER, _f._ (popular), _cutty pipe_. From the name of the manufacturer.

GAMBILLARD, _m._ (popular), _active_, _restless man_.

GAMBILLER (popular), _to dance_, “to shake a leg.” Is used by Molière with the signification of _to agitate the legs_:--

Oui de le voir gambiller les jambes en haut devant tout le
monde.--_Monsieur de Pourceaugnac._

GAMBILLES, _f. pl._ (popular), _legs_, or “pins.”

GAMBILLEUR, _m._ (familiar), _political quack_; (thieves’) _dancer_; ---- de tourtouse, _rope-dancer_.

GAMBILLEUSE, _f._ (popular), _girl who makes it a practice of attending dancing halls_.

GAMBRIADE, _f._ (thieves’), _dance_.

GAME, _f._ (thieves’), _hydrophobia_.

GAMELAD (Breton cant), _porringer_.

GAMELER (thieves’), _to inform against one_, “to blow the gaff.”

GAMELLE, _f._ (sailors’), aux amours, _mistress_. (Popular and thieves’) Attacher une ----, _to decamp_, _to run away_. See PATATROT.

GAMME, _f._ (popular), _thrashing_, or “wallopping.” Faire chanter une ----, or monter une ----, _to thrash_, “to lead a dance.” See VOIE. The expression is used by Scarron:--

Avec Dame Junon sa femme,
Qui souvent lui chante la game.

GANACHE, _f._ (theatrical), jouer les père ----, _to perform in the character of a foolish old fellow_. Properly ganache, _an old fool_, “a doddering old sheep’s head.”

GANCE, _f._ (thieves’), _a gang_, or “mob.” The Slang Dictionary says “mob” signifies _a thief’s immediate companions_, as “our own mob.”

GANDILLE, _f._ (thieves’), _sword_, or “poker;” _dagger_, or “cheery;” _knife_, or “chive.”

GANDIN, _m._ (familiar), _dandy_, or “masher.” Literally a frequenter of the “Boulevard de Gand,” now Boulevard des Italiens. For list of synonymous expressions see GOMMEUX. (Second-hand clothes-men’s) Gandin, _fine words to attract purchasers_. Monter un ----, _to entice a purchaser in_; _to get a customer_. (Thieves’) Gandin, a “job” _in preparation, or quite prepared_; ---- d’altèque, _the insignia of any order_. Hisser un ----, _to deceive_, “to kid,” or “to best.” See JOBARDER.

GANDINERIE, _f._, GANDINISME, _m._ (familiar), _the world of gandins_, or “swelldom.”

GANDOUSE, _f._ (popular), _mud_, _dirt_.

GANNALISER (familiar), _to embalm_. From Gannal, name of a practitioner. The expression is little used.

GANT, _m._ (popular), moule de ----, _box on the ear_. Properly _mould for a glove_.

GANTER (cocottes’), 5½, _to be close-fisted_; ---- 8½, _to be open-handed_.

GANTIÈRE, _f._ (familiar), _disreputable establishment where the female assistants make a show of selling gloves or perfumery, but where they retail anything but those articles_.

GANTS DE PIED, _m. pl._ (military), _wooden shoes_.

GARÇON, _m._ (popular), à deux mains, _slaughterer_; ---- de bidoche, _butcher boy_. (Thieves’) Garçon, _thief_, “prig.” Un brave ----, _an expert thief_. Un ---- de campagne, or de cambrouse, _highwayman_. Termed formerly in the English cant “bridle-cull.”

La cognade à gayet servait le trèpe pour laisser abouler
une roulotte farguée d’un ratichon, de Charlot et de son
larbin, et d’un garçon de cambrouse.--=VIDOCQ.= (_The
horse-police were keeping back the crowd in order to
open a passage for a cart which contained a priest, the
executioner, his assistant, and a highwayman._)

GARDANNE, _f._ (familiar), _odd piece of silk_.

GARDE, _m. and f._ (popular), national, _lot of bacon rind_. Gardes nationaux, _beans_. (Familiar) Descendre la ----, _to die_, “to kick the bucket.” See PIPE. Vieille ----, _superannuated cocotte_, or “played out tart.”

Il pouvait citer tel et tel, des noms, des gentilshommes de
sang plus bleu que le sien, aujourd’hui collés légitimement
et très satisfaits, et pas reniés du tout, avec de vraies
roulures, avec des vieilles-gardes!--=RICHEPIN=, _La Glu_.

GARDE-MANGER, _m._ (popular), _the behind_. See VASISTAS.

GARDE-PROYE (thieves’), _wardrobe_.

GARDER (familiar), se ---- à carreau, _to take precautions in view of future mishaps_.

GARDIEN, _m._ (popular and thieves’), ange ----, _man who undertakes to see drunkards home_; _rogue who offers to see a drunkard home, robs, and sometimes murders him_.

GARÉ, _adj._ (popular), des voitures _is said of a steady, prudent man, or of one who has renounced a disreputable way of living_.

GARE-L’EAU, m. (thieves’), _chamber-pot_, or “jerry.”

GARGAGOITCHE, _f._ (thieves’ and cads’), _face_, or “mug.”

GARGARISER (familiar and popular), se ----, _to drink_, “to wet one’s whistle.” For synonyms see RINCER. The expression is old.

Donnez ordre que buvons, je vous prie; et faictes tant
que nous ayons de l’eau fraische pour me gargariser le
palat.--=RABELAIS=, _Pantagruel_.

Se ---- le rossignolet, _to drink_, “to have a quencher.”

GARGARISME, _m._ (popular), _a drink_, a “drain,” or “quencher.” (Familiar) Faire des gargarismes, _to trill when singing_.

GARGAROUSSE, _f._ (popular and thieves’), _throat_, or “gutterlane;” _face_, or “mug.” (Sailors’) Se suiver la ----, _to eat_; _to drink_, or “to splice the mainbrace.”

GARGOINE, _f._ (popular and thieves’), _throat_, formerly “gargamelle;” _mouth_, or “potato-trap.” Termed formerly “potato-jaw,” according to a speech of the Duke of Clarence’s to Mrs. Schwellenberg:--

“Hold you your potato-jaw, my dear,” cried the Duke,
patting her.--_Supplementary English Glossary._

Se rincer la ----, _to drink_, “to smile, to see a man” (American).

GARGOT, _m._ (familiar and popular), _restaurant_; _cheap eating-house_. Some of the restaurants in Paris have two departments, the cheap one on the ground floor, and a more respectable one higher up.

GARGOUENNE. See GARGOINE.

GARGOUILLADE, _f._ (popular), _rumbling noise in the stomach_.

GARGOUILLE; GARGOUINE; GARGUE, _f._ (popular), _face_; _mouth_. For list of synonyms see PLOMB.

GARGOUSSE, _f._ (sailors’), avec le cœur en ----, _with sinking heart_.

Un’ brise à fair’ plier l’pouce,
Rigi, rigo, riguingo,
Avec le cœur en gargousse,
Rigi, rigo, riguingo,
Ah! riguinguette.
=J. RICHEPIN=, _La Mer_.

GARGOUSSES DE LA CANONNIÈRE (popular), _turnips, cabbages, or beans_.

GARIBALDI, _m._ (familiar), _red frock_; _sort of hat_. (Thieves’) Coup de ----, _blow given by butting at one’s stomach_.

GARNAFFE, _f._ (thieves’), _farm_.

GARNAFFIER, _m._ (thieves’), _farmer_, or “joskin.”

GARNIR (popular), se ---- le bocal, _to eat_, “to grub.” See MASTIQUER.

GARNISON, _f._ (popular), _lice_, “grey-backed uns.”

GARNO, _m._ (popular), _lodging-house_, “dossing crib.”

GAS, _m._ (familiar and popular), for gars, _boy_; _fellow_. Grand ----, _tall chap_. Mauvais ----, _ill-tempered fellow_. (Roughs’) Gas de la grinche, _thief_. Faut pas frayer avec ça, c’est un ---- de la grinche, _you must not keep company with the fellow, he is a thief_. Un ---- qui flanche, _a hawker_. (Thieves’) Fabriquer un ---- à la flan, à la rencontre, or à la dure, _to attack a man at night and rob him_, “to jump a cove.”

GASPARD, _m._ (popular), _cunning fellow_, or “sharp file;” _rat_; _cat_, or “long-tailed beggar.” Concerning this expression there is a tale that runs thus: A boy, during his first very short voyage to sea, had become so entirely a seaman, that on his return he had forgotten the name for a cat, and pointing to Puss, asked his mother “what she called that ’ere long-tailed beggar?” Accordingly, sailors, when they hear a freshwater tar discoursing too largely on nautical matters, are very apt to say, “but how, mate, about that ’ere long-tailed beggar?”

GÂTEAU, _m._ (popular), feuilleté, _shoe out at the sole_. (Thieves’) Avoir du ----, _to get one’s share of booty_, “to stand in.”

GÂTE-PÂTE, _m._ (popular), _redoubtable wrestler_.

GÂTER (popular), de l’eau, _to void urine_, “to lag.” Se ---- la taille, _to become pregnant_, or “lumpy.”

GÂTEUSE, _f._ (familiar), _long garment worn over clothes to protect them from the dust_.

GÂTISME, _m._ (familiar), _stupidity_. Le ---- littéraire, _decaying state of literature_.

GAUCHER, GAUCHIER, _m._ (familiar), _member of the Left whether in the Assemblée Nationale or Senate_.

GAUDILLE, or GANDILLE, _f._ (thieves’), _sword_, or “poker.”

GAUDINEUR, _m._ (popular), _house decorator_. Probably from gaudir, _to be merry_, house decorators having the reputation of being light-hearted.

GAUDISSARD, _m._ (familiar), _commercial traveller_, from the name of a character of Balzac’s; _practical joker_; _jovial man_.

GAUDRIOLER (familiar), equivalent to “dire des gaudrioles,” _to make jests of a slightly licentious character_.

GAUDRIOLEUR, _m._ (familiar), _one fond of_ gaudrioler (which see).

GAUFRES, _f. pl._ (popular), faire des ----, _is said of pock-marked persons who kiss one another_. Moule à ----, _pock-marked face_, or “cribbage-faced.”

GAULE, _f._ (popular), d’omnicroche, _omnibus conductor_. Une gaule, properly _a pole_. (Thieves’) Gaules de schtard, _bars of a cell window_.

GAULÉ, _m._ (popular), _cider_.

GAUX, _m._ (thieves’), _lice_, “grey-backed uns;” ---- picantis, _lice in clothing_. Basourdir les ----, _to kill lice_.

GAVE, _adj. and f._ (popular and thieves’), _drunken man_, “lushington;” _stomach_.

Va encore à l’cave,
Du cidre il faut
Plein la gave,
Du cidre il faut
Plein l’gaviot.

=RICHEPIN.=

Etre ----, _to be intoxicated_. See POMPETTE.

GAVÉ, _m._ (thieves’), _drunkard_. Faire les gavés, _to rob drunkards_; _to go_ “bug-hunting.” (Popular) Gavé, _term of contempt applied to rich people_. From gaver, _to glut_.

Y a des gens qui va en sapins,
En omnibus et en tramways,
Tous ces gonc’s-là, c’est des clampins,
Des richards, des muf’s, des gavés.

=RICHEPIN.=

GAVEAU, _m._ (thieves’), tortiller le ----, _to kill one by strangulation_.

GAVIOLÉ. See GAVÉ.

GAVIOT, _m._ (popular), _throat_; _mouth_. See PLOMB. Figuratively _stomach_.

Mais quoi! ces ventrus sur leurs pieds
N’peuvent plus supporter leur gaviot.

=RICHEPIN.=

GAVOT. See GAVÉ.

GAVROCHE, _m._ (familiar), _Paris street boy_. Faire le ----, _to talk or act as an impudent boy_.

GAY, _adj._ (thieves’), _ugly_; _queer_, or “rum.”

GAYE. See GALIOTE.

GAYET, _m._ (thieves’), _horse_, or “prad.” Termed also “gail.” La cognade à ----, _mounted police_. Des gayets, _rogues who prowl about the suburbs just outside the gates of Paris_.

C’étaient des rôdeurs de barrière ... c’étaient des
gayets.--_Mémoires de Monsieur Claude._

GAZ, _m._ (popular), allumer son ----, _to look attentively_, “to stag.” Eteindre son ----, _to sleep_, “to doss;” _to die_, “to snuff it.” See PIPE. Prendre un coup de ----, _to have a dram of spirits_.

GAZETTE, _f._ (familiar), lire la ----, _to eat nothing_.

GAZIER, _m._ (popular), _humbug_.

GAZON, _m._ (popular), _wig_, or “periwinkle;” _hair_, or “thatch.” N’avoir plus de ---- sur la plate-bande, or sur le pré, _to be bald_. See AVOIR. Se ratisser le ----, _to comb one’s hair_.

GAZONNER (popular), se faire ---- la plate-bande, _to provide oneself with a wig_.

GAZOUILLER (popular), _to speak_; _to sing_; _to stink_.

Oh! la la! ça gazouille, dit Clémence en se bouchant le
nez.--=ZOLA.=

GÉANT, _m._ (thieves’), montagne de ----, _gallows_, “scrag,” “nobbing cheat,” or the obsolete expression “government sign-post.”

GEINDRE, _m._ (popular), _journeyman baker_. Properly _to groan heavily_.

GENDARME, _m._ (popular), _red herring_; _mixture of white wine, gum, and water_; _one-sou cigar_; _pressing iron_.

GÉNÉRAL, _m._ (popular), le ---- macadam, _the street_, or “drag.”

GÊNEUR, _m._ (familiar), _bore_.

GÉNISSE, _f._, _woman of bad character_. See GADOUE.

GÉNITEUR, _m._ (popular), _father_.

GENOU, _m._ (familiar), BALD PATE.

GENRE, _m._ (familiar), grand ----, _pink of fashion_. C’est tout à fait grand ----, _it is quite “the” thing_. Se donner du ----, _to assume fashionable ways or manners in speech or dress_; _to look affected, to have_ “highfalutin airs.”

GENREUX, _adj. and m._ (familiar), _elegant_; _fashionable_, “dasher,” “tsing tsing;” _one who gives himself airs_.

GENS, _m. pl._ (popular), être de la société des ---- de lettres, _to belong to a tribe of swindlers who extort money by threatening letters_, “socketers.”

GENTILHOMME SOUS-MARIN, _m._ (popular), _prostitute’s bully_, “ponce.” For synonyms see POISSON.

GEORGET, _m._ (popular), _waistcoat_, “benjy.”

Les rupines et marquises leur fichent, les unes un georget,
les autres une lime ou haut-de-tire, qu’ils entrolent
au barbaudier de castu, ou à d’autres qui les veulent
abloquir.--_Le Jargon de l’Argot._ (_The ladies and wives
give them, some a waistcoat, others a shirt, or a pair of
breeches, which they take to the hospital overseer, or to
others who are willing to buy them._)

GERBABLE, _m._ (thieves’), _prisoner who is sure to be convicted_, _who is_ “booked.”

GERBE, _m._ (thieves’), trial, or “patter;” _sentence_. Planque de ----, _assize court_. Le carré des petites gerbes, _the police court_.

GERBÉ, _adj._ (thieves’), _sentenced_, or “booked.”

On dit qu’il vient du bagne où il était gerbé à 24 longes
(condamné à 24 ans).--=VIDOCQ.=

Etre ---- à viocque, _to be sentenced to penal servitude for life_, or “settled.”

GERBEMENT, _m._ (thieves’), _trial_; called also “sapement.”

La conversation roulait sur les camarades qui
étaient au pré, sur ceux qui étaient en gerbement
(jugement).--=VIDOCQ.=

GERBER (thieves’), _to sentence_.

Te voilà pris par la Cigogne, avec cinq vols qualifiés,
trois assassinats, dont le plus récent concerne deux riches
bourgeois ... tu seras gerbé à la passe.--=BALZAC.=

GERBERIE, _f._ (thieves’), _court of justice_.

GERBIER, _m._ (thieves’), _judge_, or “beak;” _barrister_, or “mouthpiece.” Mec des gerbiers, _executioner_.

GERBIERRES, _f. pl._ (thieves’), _skeleton keys_, or “screws.”

GERCE, _f._ (thieves’), _wife_, or “mollisher;” mattress; (popular) _woman with unnatural passions_. Un qui s’est fait poisser la ----, _a Sodomist_.

GERMANIE, _f._, aller en ----. See ALLER.

GERMINY, _m._ (familiar and popular), _Sodomist_. From the name of a nobleman who a few years ago was tried for an unnatural offence.

GERMINYSER (familiar and popular), se faire ----, _to be a Sodomist_.

GERNAFLE, _f._ (thieves’), _farm_.

GERNAFLIER, _m._ (thieves’), _farmer_, or “joskin.”

GÉRONTOCRACIE, _f._ (familiar), _narrow-mindedness_.

GÉSIER, _m._ (popular), _throat_. Se laver le ----, _to drink_.

GESSEUR, _m._ (popular), _fussy man_; _eccentric man_, a “rum un’.”

GESSEUSE, _f._ (popular), _prude_; _female who gives herself airs_.

GESTES. See ACCENTUER.

GET, GETI, _m._ (thieves’), _reed_, _cane_.

G--G, _m._ (popular), avoir du ----, _to have good sense_, “to know what’s o’clock,” “to be up to a trick or two.”

GI, or GY (thieves’), _yes_, or “usher.”

GIBASSES, _f. pl._ (popular), _large skinny breasts_.

GIBELOTTE DE GOUTTIÈRE, _f._ (popular), _cat stew_.

GIBERNE, _f._ (popular), _the behind_. See VASISTAS.

GIBIER, _m._ (popular), à commissaire, _woman of disorderly or drunken habits_; ---- de Cayenne, _incorrigible thief_, or “gallows’ bird.”

GIBOYER, _m._ (literary), _journalist of the worst sort_. From a play by Emile Augier.

GIBUS, _m._ (familiar), _hat_, or “stove pipe.” See TUBARD.

GIGOLETTE, _f._ (popular), _girl of the lower orders who leads a more than fast life, and is an assiduous frequenter of low dancing-halls_.

Si tu veux être ma gigolette,
Moi, je serai ton gigolo.

_Parisian Song._

GIGOLO, _m._ (popular), _fast young man of the lower orders_, _a kind of_ “’Arry,” _the associate of a_ GIGOLETTE (which see).

GIGOT, _m._ (popular), _large thick hand_, “mutton fist.”

GIGUE ET JON! _bacchanalian exclamation of sailors_.

Largue l’écoute! Bitte et bosse!
Largue l’écoute! Gigue et jon!
Largue l’écoute! on s’y fout des bosses.
Chez la mère Barbe-en-jonc.

=RICHEPIN=, _La Mer_.

GILBOQUE, _m._ (thieves’ and cads’), _billiards_. Termed “spoof” in the English slang.

GILET, _m._ (popular), s’emplir le ----, _to eat or drink_. Avoir le ---- doublé de flanelle _is said of one who has comforted himself with a plate of thick, hot soup_. The English use the term “flannel” or “hot flannel” for a comforting drink of a hot mixture of gin and beer with nutmeg, sugar, &c. According to the _Slang Dictionary_ there is an anecdote told of Goldsmith helping to drink a quart of “flannel” in a night-house, in company with George Parker, Ned Shuter, and a demure, grave-looking gentleman, who continually introduced the words “crap,” “stretch,” “scrag,” and “swing.” Upon the Doctor asking who this strange person might be, and being told his profession, he rushed from the place in a frenzy, exclaiming, “Good God! and have I been sitting all this while with a hangman?” Un ---- à la mode, _opulent breasts_. (Familiar) Un ---- en cœur, _a dandy_, or “masher.”

Amantha, que Corbois avait complètement perdue de vue,
était aux Bouffes et faisait la joie des gilets en
cœur.--=E. MONTEIL.=

GILLE, _m._ (popular), faire ----, _to run away_, “to slope,” “bolt.” See PATATROT. The expression is old.

Jupin leur fit prendre le saut.
Et contraignit de faire gille,
Le grand Typhon jusqu’en Sicile.

=SCARRON.=

Faire ---- déloge (obsolete), _to decamp_.

GILMONT, _m._ (thieves’), _waistcoat_, or “benjy.”

GILQUIN, _m._ (popular), coup de ----, _blow with the fist_, a “bang,” or “biff” (Americanism).

GIMBLER (sailors’), _to moan_. Le vent gimble, _the wind moans, roars_.

Bon! qu’il gimble tant qu’il voudra dans les agrès!
Nous en avons troussé bien d’autres au plus près.
Ce n’est pas encore lui qui verra notre quille.
Souffle, souffle, mon vieux! souffle à goule écarquille!

=RICHEPIN=, _La Mer_.

GIN (thieves’), à son ----, _see! behold!_ This expression has been reproduced in the spelling of my informant, an associate of thieves.

GINGIN, _m._ (popular), _good sense_; _behind_. See VASISTAS.

GINGINER (popular), _to make one’s dress bulge out_; _to ogle_; _to flirt_.

GINGLARD, GINGLET, or GINGUET, _m._ (popular), _thin sour wine_.

GIRAFE, _f._ (popular), grande ----, petite ----, _spiral flights of steps_, _in the Seine swimming baths, with a lower and upper landing serving as diving platforms._

GIROFLE, _adj._ (thieves’), _pretty_, “dimber.” Largue ----, _pretty girl_, or “dimbermort.”

GIROFLERIE, _f._ (thieves’), _amiability_.

GIROFLETER (popular), _to smack one’s face_, “to warm the wax of one’s ear.” Synonymous of “donner du sucre de giroflée.”

GIROLE (thieves’), expression of assent: _so be it_, “usher.”

Il y a deux menées de ronds en ma henne et deux ornies en
mon gueulard, que j’ai égraillées sur le trimar; bions les
faire riffoder, veux-tu?--Girole, et béni soit le grand
havre qui m’a fait rencontrer si chenâtre occasion.--_Le
Jargon de l’Argot._ (_There are two dozen halfpence in my
purse and two hens in my wallet, which I have caught on
the road; we will cook them, if you like?--Certainly, and
blessed be the Almighty who made me fall in with such a
piece of good luck._)

GIRONDE, _adj. and f._ (thieves’), _gentle_; _pretty_, “dimber;” _pretty woman or girl_, “dimbermort.” Also _a girl of bad character_, _a_ “bunter.”

GIRONDIN, _m._ (thieves’), _simple-minded fellow_, “flat,” or “jay.” Le ---- a donné, “the jay has been flapped.”

GIRONDINE, _f._ (thieves’), _handsome young girl_, or “dimbermort.”

GÎTE, _m._ (popular), dans le ----, _something of the best_. An allusion to gîte à la noix, _savoury morsel of beef._

GITRE (thieves’), _I have._

Gitre mouchaillé le babillard.--_Le Jargon de l’Argot._ (_I
have looked at the book._)

GIVERNER (popular), _to prowl about at night_.

GIVERNEUR, _m._ (popular), _one who prowls at night_; (thieves’) ---- de refroidis, _one who drives a hearse_.

GLACE, _f. and m._ (familiar and popular), passer devant la ----, _to enjoy gratis the favours of a prostitute at a brothel_; _to pay for the reckoning at a café_. An allusion to the large looking-glass behind the counter. (Popular) Un ----, _glass of wine_. Sucer un ----, _to drink a glass of wine_.

GLACÉ, _adj._ (popular and thieves’), pendu, _street lamps used till they were superseded by the present gas lamps_. A few are still to be seen in some lanes of old Paris.

Les pendus glacés, ce sont ces gros réverbères à quatre
faces de vitre verte carrées comme des glaces ... ce sont
ces réverbères abolis qui pendent au bout d’une corde
accrochée à un bras de potence.--=RICHEPIN=, _Le Pavé_.

GLACIÈRE PENDUE, _f._ (thieves’). See GLACÉ.

GLACIS, _m._ (popular), se passer un ----, _to drink_, “to take something damp,” or “to moisten one’s chaffer.” See RINCER.

GLADIATEUR, _m._ (military), _shoe_. An ironical allusion to the fleetness of the celebrated racer Gladiateur.

GLAIRE, _f._ (popular), pousser sa ----, _to talk_, “to jaw.” As-tu fini de pousser ta ----, _don’t talk so much_, which may be rendered by the Americanism, “don’t shoot off your mouth.”

GLAIVE, _m._ (freemasons’), _carving-knife_; (thieves’) _guillotine_. Passer sa bille au ----, _to be guillotined_. See FAUCHÉ.

GLAIVER (thieves’), _to guillotine_.

GLAO (Breton cant), _rain._.

GLAOU (Breton cant), _firebrands_.

GLAS, _m._ (popular), _dull man with a dismal sort of conversation_, “croaker.”

GLAVIOT, _m._ (popular), _expectoration_, or “gob.”

GLAVIOTER (popular), _to expectorate_.

GLAVIOTEUR, _m._ (popular), _man who expectorates_.

GLIER, GLINET, _m._ (thieves’), _devil_, “ruffin.” From sanglier, _a wild boar_. Le ---- t’entrolle en son pasclin, _the devil take you to his abode!_

GLISSANT, _m._ (thieves’), _soap_.

GLISSER (popular), _to die_, “to stick one’s spoon in the wall,” “to kick the bucket,” or “to snuff it.” See PIPE.

GLOBE, _m._ (popular), _head_, or “nut,” see TRONCHE; _stomach_. S’être fait arrondir le ----, _to have become pregnant_, or “lumpy.”

GLOUGLOUTER (popular), _to drink_, “to wet one’s whistle.” See RINCER.

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

GLUANT, _m._ (cads’ and thieves’), _penis_; _baby_, “kinchin.”

Paraît que j’suis dab’l ça m’esbloque.
Un p’tit salé, à moi l’salaud!
Ma rouchi’ doit batt’ la berloque.
Un gluant, ça n’f’rait pas mon blot.

=RICHEPIN.=

GLUAU, _m._ (popular), _expectoration_. (Thieves’) Poser un ----, _to arrest_, “to smug.” See PIPER. Gluau, properly _a twig smeared over with bird-lime_.

GLUTOUSE, _f._ (thieves’), _face_, or “mug.”

GNAC, _m._ (popular), _quarrel_.

GNAFFÉ, _adj._ (popular), _clumsily done_.

GNAFLE, _f._ (popular), _bad throw_. Après ---- raffle, _constant ill-luck_.

GNIAFF, _m._ (familiar), _bad workman_; _writer or journalist of the worst description_; (shoemakers’) _working shoemaker_.

GNIAFFER (popular), _to work clumsily_.

GNIASSE (cads’ and thieves’), mon ----, _I, myself_, “No. 1.” Ton ----, _thou, thee_. Son ----, _he, him_; _I, myself_. Un ----, _a fellow_, a “cove.” Un bon ----, _a good fellow_, a “brick.”

GNIFF, _adj._ (popular), ce vin est ----, _that wine is clear_.

GNIOL, GNIOLE, GNOLLE, _adj._ (popular), _silly_; _dull-witted_. Es-tu assez ----! _how silly_, or _what a_ “flat” _you are!_

On voulait nous mettre à la manque pour lui (nous le faire
livrer), nous ne sommes pas des gnioles!--=BALZAC.=

GNOGNOTTE, _f._ (familiar and popular). The expression has passed into the language; _thing of little worth_, “no great scratch.”

Ce farceur de Mes-Bottes, vers la fin de l’été, avait eu le
truc d’épouser pour de vrai une dame, très décatie déjà,
mais qui possédait de beaux restes; oh! une dame de la rue
des Martyrs, pas de la gnognotte de barrière.--=ZOLA=,
_L’Assommoir_.

GNOL-CHY (popular), abbreviation of Batignolles-Clichy.

GNOLE, _f._ (popular), _slap_, “clout,” “wipe;” or, as the Americans have it, “biff.” Abbreviation of torgnole.

GNON, _m._ (popular), _blow_, “clout,” “bang,” or “wipe;” _bruise_, or “mouse.”

GNOUF-GNOUF, _m._ (theatrical), _monthly dinner of the actors of the Palais Royal Theatre_. When ceremonious, the members are called, “Gnouf-gnoufs d’Allemagne;” when bacchanalian, “Gnouf-gnoufs de Pologne.”

GO, parler en ----, _is to use that syllable to disguise words_.

GOBAGE, _m._ (popular), _love_.

GOBANTE, _f._ (popular), _attractive woman_. From gober, _to like_.

GOBBE, GOBELOT, _m._ (thieves’), _chalice_.

GOBELET, _m._ (thieves’), être sous le ----, _to be in prison_, or “put away.”

GOBELIN, _m._ (thieves’), _thimble_.

GOBELOT. See GOBBE.

GOBE-MOUCHES, _m._ (thieves’), _spy_, “nark,” or “nose.”

GOBE-PRUNE, _m._ (thieves’), _tailor_. Termed also pique-poux, and in the English slang a “cabbage contractor,” “steel-bar driver,” “button catcher.”

GOBER (familiar and popular), _to like_; _to love_; _to please_. Je te gobe, _you please me_; _I like you_. Gober la chèvre, or ---- son bœuf, _to get angry_, “to get one’s monkey up,” “to lose one’s shirt,” “to get into a scot.” Termed “to be in a swot” at Shrewsbury School. Se ----, _to have a high opinion of oneself_; _to love oneself too much_.

Non, non, pas de cabotins. Le vieux Bosc était toujours
gris; Prullières se gobait trop.--=ZOLA=, _Nana_.

La ----, _to be the victim_; _to have to pay for others_; _to be ruined_; _to believe a false assertion_. Synonymous, in the latter sense, of the old expression, “gober le morceau.”

Mais je ne suis pas homme à gober le morceau.--=MOLIÈRE=,
_Ecole des Femmes_.

Cent pas plus loin, le camelot a recommencé son truc,
après avoir ri, avec son copain, des pantes qui la
gobent!--=RICHEPIN.= (_A hundred steps further the sharper
again tries his dodge, after laughing with his chum at the
flats who take it in._)

Si nous échouons, c’est moi qui la gobe, _if we fail, I shall be made responsible_.

GOBESON, _m._ (thieves’), _drinking-glass_, or “flicker;” _cup_; _chalice_.

GOBET, _m._ (popular), _piece of beef_, “a bit o’ bull.” Had formerly the signification of _dainty bit_.

Laisse-moi faire, nous en mangerons de bons gobets
ensemble.--=HAUTEROCHE=, _Crispin Médecin_.

Gobet, _disorderly workman_. Mauvais ----, _scamp_, or “bad egg.”

GOBETTE, _f._ (thieves’), _drinking-glass_, or “flicker.” Payer la ----, _to stand treat_.

GOBEUR, _m._ (familiar), _credulous man_, “flat.”

GOBICHONNADE, _f._ (familiar and popular), _gormandizing_.

GOBICHONNER (familiar and popular), se ----, _to regale oneself_.

Il se sentit capable des plus grandes lâchetés pour
continuer à gobichonner.--=BALZAC.=

GOBICHONNEUR, _m._, gobichonneuse, f. (familiar and popular), _gormandizer_, “grand paunch.”

GOBILLEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _juge d’instruction, a magistrate who instructs cases, and privately examines prisoners before trial_.

GOBSECK, _m._ (familiar), _miser_, “skinflint,” or “hunks.” One of the characters of Balzac’s _Comédie Humaine_.

GODAILLE, _f._ (popular), _amusement_; _indulgence in eating and drinking_.

On doit travailler, ça ne fait pas un doute: seulement
quand on se trouve avec des amis, la politesse passe avant
tout. Un désir de godaille les avait peu à peu chatouillés
et engourdis tous les quatre.--=ZOLA=, _L’Assommoir_.

GODAN, _m._ (popular), _falsehood_. Connaître le ----, _to be wide-awake_, _not easily duped_, “to know what’s o’clock.” Monter un ---- à quelqu’un, _to seek to deceive one, or_ “best” _one_.

GODANCER (popular), _to allow oneself to be duped_, “to be done brown.”

GODARD, _m._ (popular), _a husband who has just become a father_.

GODDAM, or GODDEM, _m._ (popular), _Englishman_.

(Entraînant l’Anglais.) Maintenant, allons jouer des
bibelots ... voilà un goddam qui va y aller d’autant.
--=P. MAHALIN.=

GODET, _m._ (popular), _drinking glass_. A common expression among the lower orders, and a very old one.

GODICHE, _adj._ (familiar and popular), _simple-minded_, _foolish_.

Que tu es donc godiche, Toinon, de venir tous les matins
comme ça.--=GAVARNI.=

GODILLER (popular), _to be merry_; _to be carnally excited_.

GODILLEUR, _m._ (popular), _man who is fond of the fair sex_, a “molrower,” or “beard-splitter.”

GODILLOT, _m._ (popular), _military shoe_. From the name of the maker; (military) _recruit_, or “Johnny raw.”

GODIVEAU RANCE, _m._ (popular), _stingy man_.

Tu peux penser si je le traite de godiveau rance chaque
fois qu’il me refuse un petit cadeau.--=E. MONTEIL.=

GOFFEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _locksmith_. From the Celtic goff, _a smith_.

GOGAILLE, _f._ (popular), _banquet_.

GOGO, _m._ (familiar), _simple-minded man who invests his capital in swindling concerns_, “gull;” _man easily fleeced_.

Quand les allumeurs de l’Hôtel des Ventes eurent jugé le
gogo en complet entraînement, il y eut un arrêt momentané
parmi les enchères intéressées.--=A. SIRVEN.=

(Popular) Gogo, _greenhorn_, “flat.” The term, with this signification, is hardly slang. Villon uses it in his _Ballade de Villon et de la Grosse Margot_ (15th century).

Riant, m’assiet le poing sur mon sommet, Gogo me dit, et me
fiert le jambot.

GOGOTTE, _adj._ (popular), _spiritless; weak; bad_. From gogo. Avoir la vue ----, _to have a weak sight_. A corruption of cocotte, _disease of the eyes_.

GOGUENAU, GOGUENO, GOGUENOT, _m._ (military), _tin can holding one litre, used by soldiers to make coffee or soup_; also _howitzer_; (military and popular) _privy_. Passer la jambe à Thomas ----, _to empty the privy tub_. Hirondelle de ----, _low street-walker_, or “draggle-tail.” See GADOUE.

GOGUETTE, _f._ (popular), _vocal society_; _wine-shop_. Etre en ----, _to be merrily inclined; to be enjoying oneself, the bottle being the chief factor in the source of enjoyment_.

GOGUETTER (popular), _to make merry_. From the old word goguette, _amusement_.

GOGUETTIER, _m._ (popular), _member of a vocal society_.

GOINFRE, _m._ (thieves’), _precentor_. An allusion to his opening his mouth like that of a glutton.

GOIPER (thieves’), _to prowl at night for evil purposes_, “quærens quem devoret.”

GOIPEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _night thief_.

GOIPEUSE, _f._ (thieves’), _prostitute who prowls about the country_. See GADOUE.

GOÎTREUX, _m._ (familiar), _silly fellow_; _man devoid of all intellectual power_. Synonymous of crétin.

GOJE (Breton cant), _well_; _yes_.

GOLGOTHER (familiar), _to give oneself the airs of a martyr_. The allusion is obvious.

GOMBERGER (thieves’), _to reckon_.

GOMBEUX, _adj._ (popular), _nasty_.

GOMME, _f._ (familiar), _fashion_; _elegance_, “swelldom.” La haute ----, _the_ “pink” _of fashion_. Etre de la ----, _to be a dandy_, a “masher.” See GOMMEUX. The term formerly signified excellence, and was used specially in reference to wine.

Mais non pas d’un pareil trésor,
Que cette souveraine gomme.

_Parnasse des Muses._

GOMMEUSE, _f._ (familiar), _showily dressed girl or woman_, a “dasher.”

GOMMEUX, _adj. and m._ (familiar), _pretty_; _dandy_.

C’était elle qui, pour la première fois, recevant un de ses
amants astiqué des pieds à la tête, empesé, ciré, frotté,
tiré, semblant, en deux mots, trempé dans de la gomme
arabique en dissolution, avait dit de lui: un gommeux! Le
petit-crevé avait un successeur.--=E. MONTEIL=, _Cornebois_.

The different appellations corresponding to various periods are as follows:--Under Louis XIV., “mouchar, muguet, petit-maître, talon-rouge.” After the revolution of 1793, “muscadin.” Under the government of the Directoire from ’95 to ’99, “incroyable, merveilleux.” Then from the Restoration come in succession, “mirliflor, élégant, dandy, lion, fashionable, and gandin.” Under the Third Empire, “cocodès, crevé, petit-crevé, col-cassé.” From 1870 to the present day, “gommeux, luisant, poisseux, boudiné, pschutteux, exhumé, gratiné, faucheur, and finally bécarre.” The English have the terms “swell, gorger, masher,” and the old expression “flasher,” mentioned in the following quotation from the _English Supplementary Glossary_:--

They are reckoned the flashers of the place, yet everybody
laughs at them for their airs, affectations, and tonish
graces and impertinences.--=MADAME D’ARBLAY=, _Diary_.

The _Spectator_ termed a dandy a “Jack-pudding,” and Goldsmith calls him a “macaroni,” “The Italians,” he says, “are extremely fond of a dish they call macaroni, ... and as they consider this as the _summum bonum_ of all good eating, so they figuratively call everything they think elegant and uncommon macaroni. Our young travellers, who generally catch the follies of the countries they visit, judged that the title of _macaroni_ was very applicable to a _clever fellow_; and accordingly, to distinguish themselves as such, they instituted a club under this denomination, the members of which were supposed to be the standards of _taste_. The infection at St. James’s was soon caught in the City, and we have now macaronies of every denomination, from the Colonel of the Train’d-Bands down to the printer’s devil or errand-boy. They indeed make a most ridiculous figure, with hats of an inch in the brim, that do not cover, but lie upon the head; with about two pounds of fictitious hair, formed into what is called a _club_, hanging down their shoulders, as white as a baker’s sack; the end of the skirt of their coat reaching not down to the first button of their breeches.... Such a figure, essenced and perfumed, with a bunch of lace sticking out under _its_ chin, puzzles the common passenger to determine the _thing’s_ sex; and many have said, _by your leave, madam_, without intending to give offence.”

The Americans give the name of “dude” to one who apes the manners of swells. It may be this word originated from a comparison between the tight and light-coloured trousers sported by swells, and the stem of a pipe termed “dudeen” by the Irish. Compare the French expression “boudiné,” literally _sausage-like_, for a swell in tight clothing.

GOMORRHE, _m._ (familiar), un émigré de ----, _Sodomite_.

GONCE, GONSE, GONZE, _m._ (thieves’), _man_, or “cove.”

GONCESSE, GONZESSE, _f._ (thieves’), _woman_, “hay-bag, cooler, or shakester.”

GONCIER, or GONCE, _m._ (thieves’), man, or “cove.”

GONDOLÉ, _adj._ (thieves’ and popular), avoir l’air ----, _to look ill_. Un homme ----, _high-shouldered man_.

GONFLE-BOUGRES, _m._ (thieves’), _beans_, the staple food of prisoners.

GONFLER. See BALLON. (Popular) Se ----, _to be elated_.

Mon vieux, c’que tu peux t’gonfler d’gagner des coupes
Renaissance!--_Le Cri du Peuple_, 17 Août, 1886.

Se ---- le jabot, _to look conceited_.

Tu es un bon artiste, c’est vrai, mais, vrai aussi, tu te
gonfles trop le jabot.--=E. MONTEIL.=

GONSALÉ, _m._ (thieves’), _man_, or “cove.” Si le ---- fait de l’harmonarés, il faut le balancarguer dans la vassarés, _if the man is not quiet, we’ll throw him into the water_.

GONSARÈS, _m._ (thieves’), _man_. A form of gonse.

GONSE, _m._ (thieves’ and popular), _man_, or “cove.”

Elle va ramasser dans les ruisseaux des halles
Les bons mots des courtauds les pointes triviales,
Dont au bout du Pont-Neuf au son du tambourin,
Monté sur deux tréteaux, l’illustre Tabarin
Amusoit autrefois et la nymphe et le gonze.

=LA FONTAINE=, _Ragotin_.

Gonse à écailles, _women’s bully_, “ponce.” See =POISSON=.

GONSIER, or GADOUILLE, _m._ (popular), _an individual_, “cove.”

GONSSE, _m._ (police and thieves’), _fool_, “flat.”

Vous êtes un gonsse, monsieur, murmura le chef à l’agent
porteur du bijou, qu’il lui arracha aussitôt.--_Mémoires de
Monsieur Claude._

GONZESSE. See GONCESSE.

GORGE, _f._ (thieves’), _a case for implements_.

GORGNIAT, _m._ (popular), _dirty man_, _a_ “chatty” _fellow_.

GOSE, _m._ (popular), _throat_, or “red lane.” Abbreviation of gosier.

GOSSE, _m. and f._ (general), _child_, “kid.” Ah! l’affreux gosse! pialle-t’y! Asseyez-vous dessus! et qu’ ça finisse! _The horrible child! how he does squall! Sit upon him, and let there be an end of it._ This seemingly uncharitable wish is often expressed in thought, if not in speech, in France, where many children are petted and spoilt into insufferable tyrants.

Arrive l’enfant de la maison qui pleure. Au lieu de lui
dire: Ah! le joli enfant, même quand il pleure, on croirait
entendre la voix de la Patti.... Maintenant ce n’est plus
ça, l’on dit: Ah! l’affreux gosse! Pialles-t’y! ... en
v’là un qui crie! ... pour sûr il a avalé la pratique à
Thérésa!--_Les Locutions Vicieuses._

GOSSELIN, _m._ (popular), _a lad_; _a young man_, or “covey” in English slang.

GOSSELINE, _f._ (popular and thieves’), _young maiden_. Fignole ----, _pretty lass_.

GOSSEMAR, _m._ (popular), _child_, or “kid.” A form of gosse.

GOSSIER, _m._ See GONCE.

GOT, _m._, for gau (thieves’), _louse_, or “gold-backed un.”

GOTEUR, _m._ (popular), _whore-monger_, “mutton-monger, molrower, beard-splitter, or rip.”

GOUACHE, _f._ (popular), _face_, _physiognomy_, or “mug.” See TRONCHE.

GOUALANTE, GOUASANTE, _f._ (thieves’), _song_; _street hawker_. Les goualantes avec leurs bagnioles, _the hawkers with their hand-barrows_.

GOUALER (thieves’), _to sing_, “to “lip;” ---- à la chienlit, _to cry out thieves!_ In the slang of English thieves, “to give hot beef.”

GOUALEUR, _m._, GOUALEUSE, _f._ (thieves’), _singer_, “chanter.”

Dis donc, la goualeuse, est-ce que tu ne vas pas nous
goualer une de tes goualantes?--=E. SUE=, _Les Mystères de
Paris_.

GOUAPE, _f._ (popular), _laziness_; _drunken and disorderly state_; _one who leads a lazy or dissolute life_; _a reprobate; thief_, or “prig.” See GRINCHE.

GOUAPER (popular), _to lead a disorderly life_; _to prowl about lazily_, “to mike;” _to tramp_.

GOUAPEUR, GOUÊPEUR (general), _lazy man_; _vagabond_; _debauchee_.

Sans paffes, sans lime, plein de crotte,
Aussi rupin qu’un plongeur,
Un soir un gouêpeur en ribote
Tombe en frime avec un voleur.

=VIDOCQ.=

Michel says, “Je suis convaincu que la racine de ce mot est _guêpe_, qui se dit _guape_ en patois normand, et qui vient de _wasp_: pareil à l’insecte de ce nom, le gouêpeur erre çà et là, butinant pour vivre.” Gouapeur, _ironical appellation given by lazy prisoners to those who work_.

GOUAPEUSE, _f._ (general), _dissolute woman fond of good cheer_.

GOUÊPER (popular), _to lead the life of a_ gouapeur (which see); also _to lead a vagrant life_.

J’ai comme un brouillard de souvenir d’avoir gouêpé dans
mon enfance avec un vieux chiffonnier qui m’assommait de
coups de croc.--=E. SUE.=

GOUÊPEUR. See GOUAPEUR.

GOUFFIER (obsolete), _to eat_.

GOUGNOTTAGE, _m._ (common). Rigaud says: “Honteuse cohabitation d’une femme avec une autre femme.”

GOUGNOTTE, _f._ (common). See GOUGNOTTAGE.

GOUGNOTTER. See GOUGNOTTAGE.

GOUILLE, _f._ (popular), envoyer à la ----, _to summarily get rid of a bore_; _to send a bore to the deuce_.

GOUILLON, _m._ (popular), _street boy_, _or street arab_.

GOUJON, _m._ (general), _dupe_, or “gull;” _girl’s bully_, or “Sunday man.” For synonyms see POISSON. Un ---- d’hôpital, _a leech_. Avaler le ----, _to die_, “to snuff it.” See PIPE. Ferrer le ----, _to cause one to fall into a trap_, _to make one swallow the bait_. Lâcher son ----, _to vomit_, “to cascade,” “to shoot the cat,” or “to cast up accounts.”

GOUJONNER (popular), _to deceive_, “to best,” “to do.” Literally _to make one swallow the bait like a gudgeon_.

GOULE, _f._ (popular), _throat_, or “gutter lane;” _mouth_, or “rattle-trap.” Old form of gueule used in the expression, now obsolete, Faire péter la goule, _to speak_.

GOULOT, _m._ (popular), _mouth_, or “rattle-trap;” _throat_, or “gutter lane.” Jouer du ----, _to drink heavily_, “to swill.” Se rincer le ----, _to drink_, “to wet one’s whistle.” See RINCER. Trouilloter du ----, _to have an offensive breath_.

GOULU, _m._ (thieves’), _a stove_; _a well_. Properly _greedy_, _glutton_.

GOUPINAGE, _m._ (thieves’), _work_, “graft;” _thieving_, “faking.”

GOUPINE, _f._ (cads’ and thieves’), _head_, or “nut,” see TRONCHE; (popular) _quaint dress_.

GOUPINÉ, _adj._ (popular), mal ----, _badly dressed_.

GOUPINER (thieves’), _to steal_, “to nick.” See GRINCHIR.

En roulant de vergne en vergne
Pour apprendre à goupiner.

=VIDOCQ.=

Goupiner les poivriers, _to rob drunkards_; ---- à la desserte, _to steal plate from a dining-room in the following manner_:--

D’autres bonjouriers ne se mettent en campagne qu’aux
approches du dîner: ceux-là saisissent le moment où
l’argenterie vient d’être posée sur la table. Ils entrent
et en un clin d’œil ils la font disparaître.--=VIDOCQ.=

Goupiner, _to do_.

La largue est fine ... et que goupine-t-elle? Elle est
établie ... elle gère une maison.--=BALZAC.=

GOUPINEUR À LA DESSERTE, _m._ (thieves’). See GOUPINER.

GOUPLINE, _f._ (thieves’), _pint_.

GOUR, _m._ (thieves’), _jug_; ---- de pivois, _jugful of wine_.

GOURD, _m._ (thieves’), _fraud_; _deceit_; _swindling_; (Breton cant) _good_; _well_.

GOURDAGO (Breton cant), _food_.

GOURDE, _f._ (popular), _simpleton_, “flat.”

GOURDÉ, _m._ (popular), _fool_, “flat,” or “duffer.”

GOURDEMENT (popular and thieves’), _much_, or, as the Irish say, “neddy;” _very_.