Chapter I: ICICAILLE, ICIGO (thieves’), here

IENNA (Breton cant), _to deceive_, _impose upon_.

IERCHEM (roughs’), _to ease oneself_. A coarse word disguised. It is of “back slang” formation, with the termination em.

IERGUE, parler en ----, _to use the word as a suffix to other words_.

IGNORANTIN (common), _a “frère des Ecoles de la Doctrine chrétienne.”_ Thus called on account of their ignorance. They are lay brothers, and formerly had charge of what were termed in England ragged schools.

IGO (thieves’), _here_. La chamègue est ----, _the woman is here_.

IL (popular), y a de l’empile, or de l’empilage, _there is some trickery, unfair play, cheating_; ---- y a de l’empile, la peau alors! je me débine, _they are cheating, to the deuce then! I’ll go_; ---- y a des arêtes dans ce corps-là, _an euphemism to denote that a man makes his living off a prostitute’s earnings_, alluding to the epithet “poisson” applied to such creatures; ---- a plu sur sa mercerie _is said of a woman with thin skinny breasts_; ---- tombera une roue de votre voiture _is said of a person in too high spirits, to express an opinion that his mirth will soon receive a damper_. (Theatrical) Il pleut! _is used to denote that a play is a failure, that it is being hissed down_, or “damned.”

IL EST MIDI! (popular), _an exclamation used to warn one who is talking in the presence of strangers or others to be prudent and guarded in his speech_. It also means _it’s of no use, it is all in vain_.

ILLICO, _m._ (popular), _grog prepared on the sly by patients in hospitals, an extemporized medicine made of sugar, spirits, and tincture of cinnamon_.

IMBÉCILE À DEUX ROUES, _m._ (popular), _bicyclist_.

IMBIBER (popular), s’---- le jabot, _to drink_, “to wet one’s whistle.”

IMMOBILITÉ, _f._ (painters’), mercenaire de l’----, _model who makes a living by sitting to painters_.

IMPAIR, _m._ (familiar), faire un ----, _to make a blunder_, “to put one’s foot in it.” (Thieves’) Impair! _look out!_ ----, acré nous v’là noblés, _look out, be on your guard, we are recognized_.

IMPÉRATRICE, _f._, for impériale, _top of bus_.

IMPÈRE (popular), abbreviation of impériale, _or top of bus_.

IMPÉRIALE, _f._ (general), _tuft of hair on the chin_. Formerly termed “royale.” The word has passed into the language.

IMPORTANCE (general), d’----, _strongly_, _vigorously_. J’te vas le moucher d’----, _I’ll let him know a piece of my mind_; _I’ll snub him_.

IMPÔT, _m._ (thieves’), _autumn_.

IMPRESSIONISME, _m._ (familiar), _school of artists who paint nature according to the personal impression they receive_. Some carry the process too far, perhaps, for if their retina conveys to them an impression that a horse, for instance, is indigo or ultramarine, they will reproduce the image in Oxford or Cambridge blue on the canvas. Needless to say, the result is sometimes startling.

IMPRESSIONISTE, _m._, _painter of the school called_ impressionisme (which see).

IMPURE, _f._ (familiar), _kept woman_, or “demi-rep.” For the list of synonyms see GADOUE.

INCOMMODE, _m._ (thieves’), _lantern_, _lamp-post_. Properly _inconvenient_, thieves being lovers of darkness.

INCOMMODÉ, _adj._ (thieves’), être ----, _to be taken red-handed_, _to be_ “nabbed” _in the act_.

INCONOBRÉ, _m. and adj._ (thieves’), _stranger_; _unknown_.

INCROYABLE, _m._ (familiar), _dandy under the Directoire at the end of the last century_. The appellation was given to swells of that period on account of their favourite expression, “C’est incroyable!” pronounced c’est incoyable, according to their custom of leaving out the r, or giving it the sound of w. For synonyms see GOMMEUX.

INDEX (popular), travailler à l’----, _to work at reduced wages_.

INDICATEUR, _m._ (general), _spy in the pay of the police_, “nark.” Generally a street hawker, sometimes a thief.

Il y a deux genres d’indicateurs: les indicateurs sur
place, tels que les marchands de chaînes de sûreté et
les marchands d’aiguilles, bimbelotiers d’occasion, faux
aveugles, etc., et les indicateurs errants: marchands de
balais, faux infirmes, musiciens ambulants: ... Il y avait,
sous l’empire, des indicateurs jusque dans le haut commerce
parisien.--_Mémoires de Monsieur Claude._

INDICATRICE, _f._ (familiar), _female spy in the employ of the police_.

INDIGENT, _m._ (bus conductors’), _outside passenger on a bus_. Thus termed on account of the outside fare being half that inside. Indigent, properly _pauper_.

INEXPRESSIBLES, _m. pl._ (familiar), from the English, _trousers_.

INFANTERIE, _f._ (popular), entrer dans l’----, _to become pregnant_, or “lumpy.” Compare with the English expression “infantry,” a nursery term for _children_.

INFECT, _adj._ (general), _utterly bad_. The expression is applied to anything. Ce cigare est ----, _that cigar is rank_. Ce livre est ----, _that book is worthless_. Un ---- individu, _a contemptible individual_.

INFECTADOS, _m._ (familiar), _cheap cigar_, “cabbage leaf.”

INFÉRIEUR, _adj._ (popular), cela m’est ----, _that is all the same to me_.

INFIRME, _m._ (popular), _clumsy fellow_.

Ils sonnèrent tant bien que mal ces infirmes, et les gens
accoururent au tapage.--=L. CLADEL=, _Ompdraillés_.

INGRAT, _m._ (thieves’), _clumsy thief_.

INGURGITER SON BILAN (popular), _to die_, or “to snuff it.” See PIPE.

INODORE, _adj._ (familiar), soyez calme et ----, _be cool_; _don’t get excited_; _be calm_; _be decorous_, or, as the Americans say, “pull your jacket down.”

INOUISME, _m._ (familiar), ruisselant d’----, _extraordinarily fine_, _good_, _dashing_, “slap up, or tzing tzing.”

INSÉPARABLES, _m. pl._ (familiar), _cigars sold at fifteen centimes a couple_.

INSINUANT, _m._ (thieves’), _apothecary_; _one who performs, or used to perform, the_ “clysterium donare” _of Molière_.

INSINUANTE, _f._ (thieves’), _syringe_.

INSINUATION, _f._ (thieves’), _clyster_.

INSOLPÉ, _m. and adj._ (thieves’), _insolent_, “cheeky.”

INSPECTEUR DES PAVÉS, _m._ (popular), _workman out of work_, or “out of collar.”

INSTITUTRICE, _f._ (popular), _female who keeps a brothel_; _the mistress of an_ “academy.”

INSTRUIT, _adj._ (thieves’), être ----, _to be a skilful thief_, a “gonnof.”

INSURGÉ DE ROMILLY, _m._ (popular), _lump of excrement_, or “quaker.”

INTERLOQUER (soldiers’), _to talk_. Je vais aller en ---- avec le marchichef, _I will talk about it to the quartermaster sergeant_.

INTERVER, ENTRAVER (thieves’), _to understand_. Je n’entrave que le dail, _I do not understand_, _I don’t_ “twig.” Interver dans les vannes, _to allow oneself to be_ “stuffed up,” _to be_ “bamboozled.”

INTIME, _m._ (theatrical), _man who is paid to applaud at a theatre_. Termed also “romain.”

INTRANSIGEANT, _m._ (familiar), _politician of extreme opinions who will not sacrifice an iota of his programme_. The reverse of opportuniste.

INUTILE, _m._ (thieves’), _notary public_.

INVALO, _m._ (popular), for invalide, _pensioner of the “Hôtel des Invalides,” a home for old or disabled soldiers_.

INVITE, _f._ (popular), faire une ---- à l’as _is said of a woman who makes advances to a man_.

INVITEUSE, _f._ (general), _waitress at certain cafés termed_ “caboulots.” Her duties, besides serving the customers, consist in getting herself treated by them to any amount of liquor; but, to prevent accidents, the drinks intended for the inviteuse are generally water or some mild alcoholic mixture. The inviteuse often plies also another trade--that of a semi-prostitute.

IOT FETIS (Breton cant), _porridge of buckwheat flour_.

IOULC’H (Breton cant), _giddy girl_.

IOULC’HA (Breton cant), _to play the giddy girl_.

IPÉCA, _m._ (military), le père ----, _the regimental surgeon_.

IRLANDE, _f._ (thieves’), envoyer en ----, _to send anything from prison_.

IRRÉCONCILIABLE, _m._ (familiar), _member of the opposition under Napoleon III_.

ISGOURDE, _f._ (popular), _ear_, “wattle,” or “lug.”

ISOLAGE, _m._ (thieves’), _abandonment_; _leaving in the lurch_.

ISOLER (thieves’), _to forsake_.

ISOLOIR, _m._ (familiar), se mettre sur l’----, _to forsake one’s friends_.

ITALIAN (Breton cant), _rum_.

ITALIQUE, _f._ (popular), avoir les jambes en ----, _to be bandy-legged_. Pincer son ----, _to reel about_.

ITOU, _adv._ (popular), _also_. Moi ----, _I too_.

ITRER (thieves’), _to have_.

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

IVOIRES, _f._ (popular), _teeth_, “ivories.” Faire un effet d’----, _to show one’s teeth_, “to flash one’s ivories.”

IZABEL (Breton cant), _brandy_.

J

JABOT, _m._ (popular), _stomach_, or “bread-basket.” Meant formerly _heart_, _breast_. Chouette ----, _fine breasts_. Faire son ----, _to eat_.

JACQUE, _m._ (thieves’), _a sou_.

JACQUELINE, _f._ (soldiers’), _cavalry sword_.

JACQUES, _m._ (thieves’), _crowbar_, “James, or the stick.” (Military) Faire le ----, _to manœuvre_.

JACTANCE, _f._ (thieves’ and cads’), _speech_, _talking_, “jaw.” Properly _silly conceit_. Caleter la ----, _to stop talking_, “to put a clapper to one’s jaw.” Quelle sale ---- il a! _how he does talk!_ Faire la ----, _to talk_, “to jaw;” _to question_, or “cross-kid.”

JACTER (popular and thieves’), _to speak_, “to rap;” _to cry out_; _to slander_. Meant formerly _to boast_.

JACTEUR, _m._ (popular), _speaker_.

JAFFE, _f._ (popular), _soup_; _box on the ear_. Refiler une ----, _to box one’s ears_. (Thieves’) Jaffes, _cheeks_, or “chops.”

JAFFIER, _m._ (thieves’), _garden_, or “smelling cheat.”

JAFFIN, _m._ (thieves’), _gardener_. Termed in English slang “master of the mint.”

JALUZOT, _m._ (general), _umbrella_, or “rain-napper, mush, or gingham.” From the name of the proprietor of the “Printemps,” who, being a wealthy man, said to his shopmen that he had not the means to buy an umbrella. So goes an idiotic song:--

Il n’a pas de Jaluzot,
Ça va bien quand il fait beau,
Mais quand il tombe de l’eau,
Il est trempé jusqu’aux os.

JAMBE, _f._ (popular), de vin, _intoxication_. S’en aller sur une ----, _to drink only a glass or a bottle of wine_. (Thieves’) Jambe en l’air (obsolete), _the gallows_, “scrag, nobbing-cheat, or government signpost.” (Familiar and popular) Lever la ----, _to dance the cancan_, see CHAHUT; _is said also of a girl who leads a fast, disreputable sort of life_. Faire ---- de vin had formerly the signification of _to drink heavily_, “to swill.”

Dès ce matin, messieurs, j’ai fait jambe de vin.
--=LA RAPINIÈRE.=

Jambes de coq, _thin legs_, “spindle-shanks.” Jambes de coton, _weak legs_. Jambes en manche de veste, _bandy legs_. (Military) Sortir sur les jambes d’un autre, _to be confined to barracks or to the guard-room_.

JAMBINET, _m._ (railway porters’), _coffee with brandy_.

JAMBON, _m._ (popular), _violin_. (Military) Faire un ----, _to break one’s musket_, a crime sometimes punished by incorporation in the compagnies de discipline in Africa.

JAMBONNEAU, _m._ (popular), ne plus avoir de chapelure sur le ----, _to be bald_. For synonymous terms see AVOIR.

JAMBOT, _m._ (obsolete), _penis_. The term is used by Villon.

JAPPE, _f._ (popular), _prattling_, “jaw.” Tais ta ----, _hold your_ “jaw,” “put a clapper to your mug,” or “don’t shoot off your mouth” (American).

JAPPER (popular), _to scream_, _to squall_.

JARDIN, _m._ (popular), faire du ----, _to quiz_, “to carry on.”

JARDINAGE, _m._ (popular), _running down_, _slandering_.

JARDINER (thieves’ and cads’), _to slander_; _to run down_; _to quiz_.

Les gonciers qui nous jardinent,
I’ s’ront vraiment j’tés.

=RICHEPIN.=

Jardiner quelqu’un, _to make one talk so as to elicit his secrets from him_, _to_ “pump” _one_.

JARDINEUR, _m._ (popular and thieves’), _man who seeks to discover a secret_; _inquisitive man, a kind of_ “Paul Pry.”

JARDINIER, _m._ (thieves’), see JARDINEUR; _a thief who operates in the manner described at the word_ “charriage.”

JARGOLLE, or JERGOLE, _f._ (thieves’), _Normandy_.

JARGOLLIER, _m._ (thieves’), _a native of Normandy_.

JARGOUILLER (thieves’), _to talk incoherently_.

JARGUER (thieves’). See JARS.

JARNAFFE, _f._ (thieves’), _garter_.

JARRETIÈRE, _f._ (thieves’), _watch chain_, or “slang.”

JARS, _m._ (thieves’), _cant_, or “flash.” Dévider, jaspiner le ----, or jarguer, _to talk cant_, “to patter flash.” Entraver or enterver le ----, _to understand cant_. The language of thieves is also termed “thieves’ Latin,” as appears from the following quotation:--

“Go away,” I heard her say, “there’s a dear man,” and then
something about a “queer cuffin,” that’s a justice in these
canters’ thieves’ Latin.--=KINGSLEY=, _Westward Ho_.

Entendre le ---- had formerly the signification of _to be cunning_.

JARVILLAGE, _m._ (thieves’), _conversation_; _dirt_. An illustrious Englishman, whose name I forget, gave once the definition of dirt as “matter in the wrong place.”

JARVILLER (thieves’), _to converse_, “to rap;” _to dirty_.

JASANTE, _f._ (thieves’), _prayer_.

JASER (thieves’), _to pray_.

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

Y a-t-il un castu dans cette vergne? Jaspin.--_Le Jargon de
l’Argot_. (_Is there an hospital in this country? Yes._)

The word has also the meaning of _chat_, _language_, “jaw.”

J’ai bien que’qu’ part un camerluche
Qu’est dab dans la magistrat’muche.
Son jaspin esbloque les badauds.

=RICHEPIN.=

JASPINEMENT, _m._ (thieves’), _barking of a dog_.

JASPINER (thieves’), _to talk_, _to speak_, “to rap, to patter.” Termed also “débagouler, dévider, gazouiller, jacter, jardiner, baver, tenir le crachoir;” ---- bigorne, _to talk in slang_, “to patter flash.” Le cabe jaspine, _the dog barks_. Jaspiner de l’orgue, _to inform against_, “to blow the gaff.”

JASPINEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _talker_; _orator_.

JAUNE, _m._ (thieves’), _summer_; (popular) _brandy_. See TORD-BOYAUX. Jaune, _gold_, or “redge.” Aimer avec un ---- d’œuf _is said of a woman who deceives her husband or lover_. An allusion to the alleged favourite colour of cuckolds.

JAUNET, JAUNIAU, or SIGUE, _m._, _gold coin_, “canary, yellow-boy, goldfinch, yellow-hammer, quid, shiner, gingle-boy.”

JAUNIER, _m._ (popular), _retailer of spirits_. An allusion to the colour of brandy.

JAVANAIS (familiar), _kind of jargon formed by disguising words by means of the letters of the syllable_ “av” _properly interpolated; thus_ “je l’ai vu jeudi,” _becomes_ “javé lavai vavu javeudavi.”

Argot de Breda où la syllabe av, jetée dans chaque syllabe,
hache pour les profanes le son et le sens des mots, idiome
hiéroglyphique du monde des filles qui lui permet de se
parler à l’oreille--tout haut.--=DE GONCOURT.=

JAVARD, _m._ (thieves’), _hemp_; (popular) _tattle-box_.

JAVOTER (popular), _to prattle_.

JAVOTTE, _f._ (popular), _tattle-box_.

JEAN, _m._ (popular), de la suie, _sweep_; ---- guêtré, _peasant_, or “clod;” ---- houssine, _stick_, or “toco.” (Thieves’) Un ---- de la vigne, _a crucifix_.

JEAN-BÊTE, _m._ (general), _blockhead_, “cabbage-head.”

JEAN-FESSE, or JEAN-FOUTRE (general), _scamp_.

JEANJEAN, _m._ (familiar and popular), _simpleton_.

La blanchisseuse était allée retrouver son ancien époux
aussitôt que ce jeanjean de Coupeau avait ronflé.--=ZOLA=,
_L’Assommoir_.

(Soldiers’) Jeanjean, _recruit_, “Johnny raw.”

JEANNETON, _f._ (popular), _servant wench at an inn_; _girl of doubtful morals_, a “dolly mop.”

JEM’ENFOUTISME, _m._ (familiar), _the philosophy of utter indifference_.

Aussi, lui n’était-il ni orléaniste, ni républicain, ni
bonapartiste, il affichait le “jem’enfoutisme” qui mettait
tout le monde d’accord.--=J. SERMET.=

JÉRÔME, _m._ (popular), _stick_, or “toco.”

JÉRUSALEM (thieves’), lettre de ----, _letter written from prison to make a request of money_. The Préfecture de police, and consequently the lock-up, was formerly in the Rue de Jérusalem.

JÉSUITE, _m._ (thieves’), _turkey-cock_. This species of _gallinacea_ was introduced into France by the Jesuit missionaries. Termed by English vagabonds “cobble colter.” Engrailler un ----, _to steal a turkey_, “to be a Turkey merchant.”

JÉSUS, _m._ (thieves’), _innocent man_, thieves considering themselves as much-injured individuals. Grippe-Jésus, _gendarme_. (Popular) Petit ----, or à quatre sous, _newly-born infant_. (Sodomists’) Un ----, _a Sodomist in confederacy with a rogue termed_ “chanteur,” _whose spécialité is to extort money from rich people with unnatural passions_.

Le persillard qui, une fois d’accord avec le chanteur
pour duper son douillard, devient alors son compère,
c’est-à-dire son Jésus! Tel est dénommé aujourd’hui le
persillard exploiteur.--_Mémoires de Monsieur Claude._

JET, _m._ (thieves’), _musket_, or “dag.”

JETAR, _m._ (military), _prison_, “Irish theatre, or mill.”

J’ai ordre du sous-officier de semaine de te faire fourrer
au jetar sitôt rentré.--=G. COURTELINE.=

JETÉ, _adj._ (popular), bien ----, or bien gratté, _well done_, _well made_, _handsome_. Etre ----, _to be sent to the deuce_.

JETER (thieves’ and cads’), _to send roughly away_; _to send to the deuce_; ---- avec perte et fracas, _to bundle one out of doors forcibly_; ---- un coup, _to look_, “to pipe.” Jettes-en un coup sur le pante, _just look at that_ “cove.” Jeter de la grille, _to summons_, _to request in the name of the law_; ---- une mandole, _to give one a box on the ear_, “to smack one’s chops.” (Printers’) Jeter, _to assure_. Je vous le jette, _I assure you it’s a fact_, “my Davy on it.”

JETER DU CŒUR SUR CARREAU (general), or ---- son lest, _to vomit_, “to cast up accounts, to shoot the cat, or to spew.” Literally _to throw hearts on diamonds, or to throw one’s heart (which has here the meaning of stomach) on the floor_.

JETON, _m._ (popular), _coin_.

JEU DE DOMINOS, _m._ (popular and thieves’), _set of teeth_. Montrer son ----, _to show one’s teeth_, “to flash” _one’s_ “ivories.”

JEUNE FRANCE (literary), _name given to young men of the “Ecole romantique” in 1830--the “Byronian” school_.

Ils ont fait de moi un Jeune France accompli ... j’ai une
raie dans les cheveux à la Raphaël ... j’appelle bourgeois
ceux qui ont un col de chemise.--=TH. GAUTIER.=

JEUNE HOMME, _m._ (familiar and popular), _measure of wine of the capacity of four litres_. Avoir son ----, _to be drunk_, “screwed.” For synonyms see POMPETTE.

Tiens ta langue, tu as ton jeune homme, roupille dans ton
coin.--=E. MONTEIL.=

Suivez-moi ----, _ribbons worn in the rear of ladies’ dresses_, or “follow me, lads.”

JINGLARD. See GINGLARD.

JIROBLE, _adj._ (thieves’), for girofle, _pretty_.

JOB, _m. and adj._ (popular), _silly fellow_, or “flat.” Monter le ----, _to deceive_, “to bamboozle.” Se monter le ----, _to entertain groundless hopes_. Job is an abbreviation of jobard.

JOBARDER (general), _to deceive_, _to dupe_, _to fool one_, “to bamboozle.” The equivalents for _to deceive_ are in the different varieties of jargon: “mener en bateau, monter un bateau, donner un pont à faucher, promener quelqu’un, compter des mistoufles, gourrer, affluer, rouster, affûter, bouler, amarrer, battre l’antif, emblêmer, mettre dedans, empaumer, enfoncer, allumer, hisser un gandin, entortiller, faire voir le tour, la faire à l’oseille, refaire, refaire au même, faire la barbe, faire la queue, flancher, pigeonner, juiffer,” &c.; and in the English slang or cant, “to stick, to bilk, to do, to best, to do brown, to bounce, to take in, to kid, to gammon,” &c.

JOBELIN, _m._ (old word), jargon ----, _cant_.

Sergens à pied et à cheval,
Venez-y d’amont et d’aval,
Les hoirs du deffunct Pathelin,
Qui scavez jargon jobelin.

=VILLON=, _Les Repeues franches de
François Villon et de ses compagnons_,
15th century.

JOBERIE, _f._ (popular), _nonsense_, “tomfoolery.”

JOBISME, _m._ (popular), _poverty_.

Desroches a roulé comme nous sur les fumiers du
Jobisme.--=BALZAC.=

Compare with the English expression, “as poor as Job’s turkey;” “as thin and as badly fed,” says the _Slang Dictionary_, “as that ill-conditioned and imaginary bird.”

JOCKO, _m._ (familiar), pain ----, _loaf of an elongated shape_.

Jocko, pain long à la mode depuis 1824, année où le singe
Jocko était à la mode.--=L. LARCHEY=, _Dict. Hist. d’Argot_.

JOCRISSIADE, _f._ (familiar), _stupid action_. Jocrisse, _simpleton_.

JOJO, _adj. and m._ (popular), _pretty_; _simpleton_. Faire son ----, _to play the fool_.

JONC, _m._ (thieves’), _gold_, or “redge.” Etre sur les joncs, _to be in prison_, “in quod.” Un bobe, or un bobinot de ----, _a gold watch_, a “red toy.”

JONCHER (thieves’), _to gild_.

JONCHERIE, _f._ (popular), _deceit_, _swindle_. The word is old.

Adonc le Penancier vit bien
Qu’il y ent quelque tromperie;
Quand il entendit le moyen,
Il congnent bien la joncherie.

_Poésies attribuées à Villon_,
15th century.

JONCHEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _gilder_.

JONQUILLE, _adj._ (popular), mari ----, _injured husband_. An allusion to the alleged favourite colour of cuckolds.

JORNE, _m._ (thieves’), _day_ (Italian giorno). Refaite de ----, _breakfast_.

JOSE, _m._ (popular), _bank-note_. From papier Joseph, _tracing paper_.

JOSEPH, _m._ (familiar), _over-virtuous man_. Faire le or son ----, _to give oneself virtuous airs_. An allusion to the story of Madame Potiphar and Joseph.

Je me disais aussi: voilà un gaillard qui fait le Joseph.
Il doit y avoir une raison.--=A. DUMAS FILS.=

JOSÉPHINE, _f._ (thieves’), _skeleton key_, or “betty.”

Tel grinche s’arrêtera à faire le barbot dans une
cambriolle (à voler dans une chambre). S’il a oublié sa
joséphine (fausse clef), jamais il ne se servira de la
joséphine d’un autre de peur d’attraper des punaises,
c’est-à-dire de manquer son coup ou d’avoir affaire à un
mouchard.--_Mémoires de Monsieur Claude._

(Popular) Faire sa ----, _is said of a woman who puts on virtuous airs, indignantly tossing her head, or blushingly casting down her eyes, &c._

JOUASSER (familiar), _to play badly at a game or on an instrument_.

JOUASSON (familiar), _poor player_.

JOUER (popular), à la ronfle, or de l’orgue, _to snore_, “to drive one’s pigs to market;” ---- des guibolles, _to run away_, “to leg it;” see PATATROT; ---- du cœur, _to vomit_, “to shoot the cat;” (familiar and popular) ---- de la harpe, _to stroke a woman’s dress as Tartuffe with Elmire, or otherwise to take certain liberties with her_. See HARPE. Jouer des mandibules, _to eat_, “to grub;” see MASTIQUER; ---- du Napoléon, _to be generous with one’s money_, “to come down handsome;” an allusion to napoléon, _a twenty-franc coin_; ---- du fifre, _to go without food_; ---- du piano _is said of a horse which has a disunited trot, or of a man who is knock-kneed_; ---- du pouce, _to give money_, “to fork out;” _to spend freely one’s money_. The expression is old; Villon uses it in his dialogue of _Messieurs de Mallepaye et de Baillevent_, 15th century:--

M. Sang bien, la mousse
M’a trop cousté. B. Et pourquoy? M. Pource.
B. Hay! hay! tout est mal compassé.
M. Comment? B. On ne joue plus du poulce.

Jouer comme un fiacre, _to play badly_; ---- la fille de l’air, _to run away_, “to slope.” See PATATROT. (Theatrical) Jouer à l’avant-scène, _to stand close to the footlights when acting_; ---- devant les banquettes, _to perform before an empty house_; (thieves’) ---- à la main chaude, _to be guillotined_. Literally _to play hot cockles_. See FAUCHÉ. Jouer de la harpe, _to be in prison_, or “in quod;” ---- du linve, or du vingt-deux, _to knife_, or “to chive;” ---- du violon, _to file iron bars or irons_.

JOUJOUTER (popular), _to play_; _to frolic_.

JOUR DE LA SAINT JEAN BAPTISTE, _m._ (thieves’), _execution day_, or “wry-neck day.”

JOURNÉE GOURD (Breton cant), _good day’s profits_.

JOURNOYER (popular), _to do nothing at all_.

JOUSTE, or _juste_ (thieves’), _near_. From the old word jouxte, Latin juxta. Je trimardais jouste la lourde, _I was passing close to the door_.

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

JOYEUX, _m. pl._ (military), _men of the “bataillon d’Afrique,”_ a corps recruited with military convicts, who on being liberated serve the remainder of their term of service in this corps.

JUBILE, _f._ (glove-makers’), _pieces of glove skins_, _the perquisites of glove-makers_.

Jubile, peau économisée par l’ouvrier gantier sur celles
qu’on lui a confiées pour tailler une douzaine de paires de
gants.--=L. LARCHEY=, _Dict. Hist. d’Argot_.

JUDAS, _m._ (popular), barbe de ----, _red beard_. Bran de ----, _speckles_. Le point de ----, _thirteen_.

JUDASSER (popular), _to betray_; _to act as a_ “cat in the pan,” or, in thieves’ cant, “to turn snitch.”

JUDASSERIE, _f._ (popular), _treacherous show of friendship_.

JUDÉE, _f._ (thieves’), la petite ----, _Préfecture de police, headquarters of the police_, situated formerly in the Rue de Jérusalem; hence the expression.

JUGÉ, _m._ (prisoners’), _young offender who has been sentenced to be confined in a house of correction_.

JUGE DE PAIX, _m._ (thieves’), _stick_; _a kind of roulette at wine-shops_; (gamblers’) _pack of cards_, or “book of broads.”

JUGEOTTE, _f._ (popular), _intellect_.

JUGULANT, _adj._ (popular), _annoying_.

JUGULER (popular), _to strangle_; _to bore_; _to cry out_. Scrongnieugneu! que j’jugulais! _darn it, I cried!_

JULES, _m._ (popular), _chamber pot_, or “jerry.” Aller chez ----, _to ease oneself_. (Military) Prendre, pincer, or tirer les oreilles à ----, _to carry away the privy tub_. Passer la jambe à ----, _to empty the aforesaid tub_. Travailler pour ----, _to eat_. Des jules, _socks_.

JUMELLES, _f. pl._ (popular), _breech_.

JUPONNIER, _m._ (common), _one fond of the petticoat_.

JUS, _m._ (familiar and popular), _wine_; ---- de bâton, _thrashing with a stick_; ---- d’échalas, _wine_; ---- de réglisse, _negro_; ---- de chapeau, _weak coffee_. Avoir du ----, _to be elegant, dashing_. Avoir du ---- de navet dans les veines, _to be devoid of energy_. (Popular) Jus, _profits in business_. Hardi! du ---- de bras, _now, with a will, my lads!_

Encore un tour au treuil! Hardi! Du jus de bras!

=RICHEPIN=, _La Mer_.

Se coller un coup de ----, _to get drunk_. (Sailors’) Jus de cancre, _landsman_, or “land-lubber.” Du ---- de botte premier brin, _rum of the best quality_.

JUSQU’À LA GAUCHE (military), _to a great extent_; _for a long time_.

Vous serez consigné jusqu’à la gauche ... c’était son mot
ce “jusqu’à la gauche,” une expression de caserne ...
qui ne signifiait pas grand chose ... mais personnifiait
l’éternité.--=G. COURTELINE.=

JUSQU’À PLUS SOIF (popular), _to excess_.

JUSTE, _f._ (thieves’), _the assizes_.

JUSTE-MILIEU, _m._ (familiar), _the behind_. See VASISTAS.

JUTER DE L’ŒIL (popular), _to weep_.

Spèce de tourte, n’jute donc pas d’ l’œil d’une façon aussi
incongrue.--=G. FRISON.=

JUTEUX, _adj._ (dandies’), _elegant_; _dashing_. (Familiar) Affaire juteuse, _profitable transaction_, a “fat job.”

K

KÉBIR, _m._ (military), _commander of a corps_. From the Arab. Also _colonel_.

KIF-KIF (popular), _all the same_.

Expression qui vient des Arabes, importée assurément dans
l’atelier par quelque Zéphir ou quelque Zouave typographe.
Dans le patois algérien, kif-kif signifie, semblable
à.--=BOUTMY.=

C’est ---- bourico or bourriquo, _it is all the same_; _it comes to the same thing_.

Que tu dises comme moi ou qu’ tu dises pas comme moi ça
fait jus’ kif-kif bourrique.--=G. COURTELINE.=

KIL, _m._ (roughs’), _litre of wine_. Je me suis traversé d’un ----, _I have drunk a litre of wine_.

KILO, _m._ (popular), _litre of wine_; _false chignon_. Déposer un ----, _to ease oneself_.

KLEBJER (popular), _to eat_.

KOLBACK, _m._ (popular), _small glass of brandy_; _a large glass of wine_.

KOXNOFF, _adj._ (popular), _excellent_.

KRAK, _m._ (familiar), _general collapse of financial firms in Austria some years ago_.

KROUMIR, _m._ (popular), _rough fellow_; _dirty or_ “chatty” _fellow_.