BROSSER (familiar), se ---- le ventre, _to go without food, and, in a
figurative sense, to be compelled to do without something_.
BROSSEUR, _m._ (artists’), _one who paints numerous pictures of very
large dimensions_. Rubens was a “brosseur;” (military) _flatterer_,
_one who_ “sucks up.”
BROUCE, _f._ (popular), _thrashing_, “whopping.”
BROUF, _m._ (codfishers’), _wind blowing from the main_.
BROUILLARD, _m._ (popular), chasser le ----, _to have a morning drop of
spirits_, “dewdrop.” Etre dans le ----, _to be_ “fuddled,” _or tipsy_.
Faire du ----, _to smoke_, “to blow a cloud.”
BROUILLE, _f._, _series of pettifogging contrivances which a lawyer
brings into play to squeeze as much profit as he can out of a law
affair_.
BROUILLÉ, _adj._ (familiar), avec la monnaie, _penniless_, “hard up;”
---- avec sa blanchisseuse, _with linen not altogether of a snow-white
appearance_; ---- avec l’orthographe, _a bad speller_.
BROUSSAILLES, _f. pl._ (popular), être dans les ----, _to be tipsy_,
“obfuscated.” See POMPETTE.
BROUTA, _m._ (Saint-Cyr school), _speech_. From the name of a professor
who was a good elocutionist.
BROUTE, _f._ (popular), _bread_, “tommy.”
BROUTER (popular), _to eat_, “to grub.” The expression is used by
Villon, and is scarcely slang.
Item, à Jean Raguyer, je donne ...
Tous les jours une talemouze (_cake_),
Pour brouter et fourrer sa mouse.
BROUTEUR SOMBRE, _m._ (popular), _desponding, melancholy man_,
“croaker.”
BROYEUR DE NOIR EN CHAMBRE (familiar), _literary man who writes on
melancholy themes_.
BRUANT (Breton), _cock_; _egg_.
BRUANTEZ (Breton), _hen_.
BRUGE, _m._ (thieves’), _locksmith_.
BRUGERIE, _f._, _locksmith’s shop_.
BRÛLAGE, _m._ (familiar), _the act of being ruined_, “going to smash.”
BRÛLANT, _m._ (thieves’), _fire_; _hearth_.
BRÛLÉ, _m. and adj._ (popular), _failure of an undertaking_; (familiar)
Il doit de l’argent partout il est ---- dans le pays, _he owes money
to everybody, his credit is gone_. C’est un article ----, _an article
which will no longer sell_. L’épicier est ----, _the grocer refuses
any more credit_. Un politicien ----, _a politician whose influence is
gone_. Un auteur ----, _an author who has spent himself_, _no longer in
vogue_. Une fille brûlée, _a girl who in spite of assiduous attendance
at balls, &c., has failed to obtain a husband_. Une affaire brûlée, _an
unsuccessful undertaking, or spoilt by bad management_. Un acteur ----,
_an actor who for some reason or other can no longer find favour with
the public_.
BRÛLÉE, _f._ (popular), _severe thrashing_; _defeat_; _hurried and
unlawful auction for contracts_.
BRÛLER (theatrical), à la rampe _is said of an actor who performs as if
he were alone, and without regard to the common success of the play, or
his colleagues_; ---- du sucre, _to obtain applause_. (Popular) Brûler,
abbreviation of brûler la cervelle, _to blow one’s brains out_. Fais le
mort ou je te brûle, _don’t budge, or I blow your brains out_. En ----
une, _to smoke_, “to blow a cloud.” (Thieves’) Brûler le pégriot, _to
obliterate all traces of a theft or crime_. Ne ---- rien, _to suspect
nothing_.
BRÛLEUR, _m._ (theatrical), de planches, _spirited actor_.
BRUSQUER (gamesters’), la marque, _to mark more points than have been
scored, when playing cards_.
BRUTAL, _m._ (familiar), _cannon_.
BRUTIFIER (popular), _to make one stupid by dint of upbraiding or
badgering him_.
BRUTION, _m._ (students’), _cadet of the_ “_Prytanée Militaire de la
Flèche_,” a Government school for the sons of officers.
BRUTIUM, _m._, “_Prytanée Militaire de la Flèche_.” From Brutus,
probably on account of the strict discipline in that establishment.
BRUTUS, _m._ (thieves’), _Brittany_.
Bruyances, _f. pl._ (familiar), _great puffing up in newspapers or
otherwise_.
BU, _adj._ (popular), _in liquor_, “tight.” See POMPETTE.
Eh ben! oui, j’suis bu. Et puis, quoi?
Qué qu’vous m’voulez, messieurs d’la rousse?
Est-c’que vous n’aimez pas comme moi
A vous rincer la gargarousse?
=RICHEPIN=, _La Chanson des Gueux_.
BÛCHE, _f._ Literally _log_; (tailors’) _article of clothing_. Coller
sa ---- au grêle, _to remit a piece of work to the master_. Temps de
----, _worktime_. (Popular) Bûche, _lucifer match_; (thieves’) ----
flambante, or plombante, _lucifer match_.
BÛCHER (familiar), _to work hard_, “to sweat;” _to belabour_, “to
lick.” (Popular) Se ----, _to fight_, “to slip into one another.”
BÛCHERIE, _f._ (popular), _fight_, “mill.”
BÛCHEUR, _m._ (familiar), _one who works hard_, “a swat.”
BUEN-RETIRO, _m._ (familiar), _private place of retirement_;
(ironically) _latrines_, or “West Central.”
BUFFET, _m._ (popular), avoir le ---- garni, _to have had a hearty
meal_; ---- vide, _to be fasting_, _to have nothing in the_ “locker.”
Bas de ----, see BAS. Remouleur de ----, _organ-grinder_.
BUIF, _m._ (military), _shoemaker_.
BULL-PARK, _m._ (students’), _Bullier’s dancing-rooms_, situated near
the Luxembourg, patronized by the students of the Quartier Latin,
but invaded, as most places of a similar description now are, by the
protectors of gay girls.
BUQUER (thieves’), _to commit a robbery at a shop under pretence of
asking for change_; (popular) _to strike_, a corruption of the slang
term bûcher.
Vous avez dit dans votre interrogatoire devant Monsieur le
Juge d’instruction: J’ai buqué avec mon marteau.--_Gazette
des Tribunaux._
BUREAU ARABE, _m._ (soldiers’ in Algeria), _absinthe mixed with_
“orgeat,” _a kind of liquor made with almonds_.
BURETTES, _f. pl._ (thieves’ and popular), _pistols_, “barking irons.”
Literally _phials_.
BURLIN, BURLINGUE, _m._ (popular), _office_; _desk_. For bureau.
Chez l’pèr’ Jacob pour le jour de sa fête,
A son burlingue il voulait l’envoyer.
_La France._
BUSARD, _m._, BUSE, _f._, BUSON, _m._ (familiar and popular), _dull_,
_slow_, _thick-witted man_, “blockhead.”
BUSTINGUE (thieves’), _lodging house_, “dossing ken.”
BUTE, BUTTE, or BUTE À REGRET, _f._ (thieves’), _guillotine_. Monter à
la ----, _to be guillotined_.
BUTÉ, _adj._ (thieves’), _guillotined_; _murdered_. See FAUCHÉ.
Ils l’ont buté à coups de vingt-deux.--=E. SUE.= (_They
killed him by stabbing him._)
BUTER (thieves’), _to kill_, _to guillotine_; _to execute_.
On va le buter, il est depuis deux mois gerbé à la
passe.--=BALZAC.= (_He is going to be executed, he was
sentenced to death two months ago._)
BUTEUR (thieves’), _murderer_; _executioner_. See TAULE.
BUTIN, _m._ (soldiers’), _equipment_.
BUTRE (thieves’), _dish_.
BUVAILLER (popular), _to drink little or slowly_.
BUVAILLEUR or BUVAILLON, _m._ (popular), _a man who cannot stand drink_.
BUVERIE, _f._ (common), _a beerhouse_, termed _brasserie_. From the old
word _beuverie_.
BUVEUR D’ENCRE, _m._ (soldiers’), _any military man connected with the
administration_; _clerk_, or “quill-driver.”
L’expression de buveurs d’encre ne s’applique strictement
qu’aux engagés volontaires qu’on emploie dans les bureaux,
où ils échappent aux rigueurs du service, sous prétexte
qu’ils ont une main superbe.--=F. DE REIFFENBERG=, _La Vie
de Garnison_.
C
C, _m._ (popular), être un ----, _to be an arrant fool_. Euphemism for
a coarse word of three letters with which the walls are often adorned;
---- comme la lune, _extremely stupid_.
ÇA (popular), être ----, _to be the right sort_. C’est un peu ----,
_that’s excellent_, “fizzing.” Avoir de ----, _to be wealthy_.
(Familiar) Ça manque de panache, _it lacks finish or dash_. Elle a de
----, _she has a full, well-developed figure_.
CAB, _m._ (abbreviation of cabotin), _contemptuous expression applied
to actors_; _third-rate actor_, or “surf.”
CAB, CABOU (thieves’ and popular), _dog_, “tyke.” Le ---- jaspine, _the
dog barks_.
CABANDE, _f._ (popular), _candle_, or “glim.” Estourbir la ----, _to
blow the candle out_.
CABAS, _m._ (popular), _old hat_. Une mère ----, _rapacious old woman_.
Properly, cabas, _a woman’s bag_.
CABASSER (popular), _to chatter, to gabble; to delude_, or “bamboozle;”
_to steal_, “to prig.”
CABASSEUR, _m._ (popular), _scandal-monger_; _thief_, “prig.” See
GRINCHE.
CABE, _m._ (students’), _third year student at the Ecole Normale_, a
higher training school for professors, and one which holds the first
rank among Colleges of the University of France; (popular) _a dog_. See
CABO.
CABERMON, _m._ (thieves’), _wine-shop_, “lush-crib.” A corruption of
cabaret.
CABESTAN, _m._ (thieves’), _police inspector_; _police officer_,
“crusher,” “pig,” “copper,” or “reeler.”
CABILLOT, _m._ (sailors’), _soldier_, “lobster.”
CÂBLE À RIMOUQUE, _m._ (fishermens’), _tow-line_.
Souque! attrape à carguer! Pare à l’amarre! Et souque!
C’est le coup des haleurs et du câble à rimouque.
La oula ouli oula oula tchalez!
Hardi! les haleurs, oh! les haleurs, halez!
=RICHEPIN=, _La Mer_.
CABO, _m._ (popular), _dog_, or “buffer.” Michel derives this from
clabaud, _a worthless dog_, and L. Larchey from qui aboie, pronounced
_qu’aboie_. Le ---- du commissaire, _the police magistrate’s
secretary_. See CHIEN. (Military) Elève ----, _one who is getting
qualified for the duties of a corporal_.
CABOCHON, _m._ (popular), _blow_, “prop,” or “bang.”
CABONTE, or CAMOUFLE, _f._ (military), _candle_.
CABOT, _m._ (common), _third-rate actor_, or “surf;” _term of contempt
applied to an actor_. Abbreviation of cabotin. Also a _dog_.
CABOTINAGE, _m._ (familiar), _life of hardships which most actors have
to live before they acquire any reputation_.
CABOTINE (familiar), _bad actress_; _strolling actress, or one who
belongs to a troupe of_ “barn stormers.”
CABOTINER (familiar), _to be a strolling actor_; _to mix with_
cabotins; _to fall into their way of living_, which is not exactly a
“proper” one.
CABOULOT, _m._ (familiar), _small café where customers are waited upon
by girls_; _small café where the spécialité is the retailing of cherry
brandy, absinthe, and sweet liquors_; _best sort of wine-shop_.
CABRIOLET, _m._, _short rope or strap with a double loop affixed,
made fast to a criminals wrists, the extremity being held by a police
officer_; _small box for labels_; _woman’s bonnet_.
CABRION, _m._ (artists’), _painter without talent_, or “dauber;”
_practical joker_. In the _Mystères de Paris_ of Eugène Sue, Cabrion,
a painter, nearly drives the doorkeeper Pipelet mad by his practical
jokes.
CACHALOT, _m._ (sailors’), _old sailor, old_ “tar.” Properly
_spermaceti whale_.
CACHE-FOLIE, _m._ (popular), _drawers_; _false hair_.
CACHEMAR, CACHEMINCE, _m._ (thieves’), _cell_, “clinch.” From cachot,
_black hole_.
CACHEMIRE, _m._ (popular), _clout_; ---- d’osier, _rag-picker’s wicker
basket_.
Voici les biffins qui passent, le crochet au poing et
les pauvres lanternes sont recueillies dans le cachemire
d’osier.--=RICHEPIN=, _Le Pavé_.
CACHE-MISÈRE (familiar), _coat buttoned up to the chin to conceal the
absence of linen_.
CACHEMITTE, _f._ (thieves’), _cell_, “clinch.”
CACHEMUCHE. See CACHEMAR.
CACHER (popular), _to eat_, “to grub.”
CACHET, _m._ (thieves’ and cads’), de la République, _the mark of
one’s heel on a person’s face_, a kind of farewell indulged in by
night ruffians, especially when the victim’s pockets do not yield a
satisfactory harvest. (Familiar) Le ----, _the fashion_, “quite the
thing.”
Et ce n’est pas lui qui porterait des gants vert-pomme si
le cachet était de les porter sang de bœuf.-- =P. MAHALIN=,
_Mesdames de Cœur Volant_.
CACIQUE, _m._, _head scholar in a division at the Ecole Normale_.
CADAVRE, _m._ (familiar and popular), _body_; _a secret misdeed_, “a
skeleton in the locker;” _tangible proof of anything_. Grand ----,
_tall man_. Se mettre quelquechose dans le ----, _to eat_. See
MASTIQUER.
CADENNE, _f._ (thieves’), _chain fastened round the neck_. La grande
---- _was formerly the name given to the gang of convicts which went
from Paris to the hulks at Toulon_.
CADET, _m._ (thieves’), _crowbar_, or “Jemmy.” Termed also “l’enfant,
Jacques, sucre de pommes, biribi, rigolo;” (popular) _breech_.
Baiser ----, _to be guilty of contemptible mean actions_; _to be a
lickspittle_. Baise ----! _you be hanged!_ Bon pour ---- _is said of
any worthless object or unpleasant letter_.
CADICHON, _m._ (thieves’), _watch_, “Jerry,” or “red toy.”
CADOR (thieves’), _dog_, “tyke;” ---- du commissaire, _secretary to the
“commissaire de police,” a kind of police magistrate_.
CADOUILLE, _f._ (sailors’), _rattan_.
Effarés de ne pas recevoir de coups de cadouille, ils
s’éloignent à reculons, et leurs prosternations ne
s’arrêtent plus.--=BONNETAIN=, _Au Tonkin_.
CADRAN, _m._ (popular), _breech_, or “bum;” ---- lunaire, _same
meaning_. See VASISTAS.
CADRATIN, _m._ (printers’), _top hat_, or “stove pipe;” (police) _staff
of detectives_; (journalists’) _apocryphal letter_.
CAFARD, _m._ (military), _officer who makes himself unpleasant_; _a
busybody_.
CAFARDE, _f._ (thieves’), _moon_, “parish lantern;” _cup_.
CAFARDER (popular), _to be a hypocrite_, a “mawworm.”
CAFÉ, _m._ C’est un peu fort de ----, _it is really too bad, coming it
too strong_. Prendre son ----, _to laugh at_.
CAFETIÈRE, _f._ (thieves’ and cads’), _head_, “canister.” See TRONCHE.
CAFIOT, _m._, _weak coffee_.
CAFOUILLADE (boatmens’), _bad rowing_.
CAFOUILLEUX, _m._ (popular), espèce de ----! _blockhead!_ “bally
bounder!”
CAGE, _f._ (popular), _workshop with glass roof_; _prison_, or “stone
jug;” ---- à chapons, _monastery_; ---- à jacasses, _nunnery_; ---- à
poulets, _dirty, narrow room_, “a hole;” (printers’) _workshop_.
CAGETON, _m._ (thieves’), _may-bug_.
CAGNE, _f._ (popular), _wretched horse_, or “screw;” _worthless dog_;
_lazy person_; _police officer_, or “bobby.”
CAGNOTTE, _f._ (familiar), _money-box in which is deposited each
player’s contribution to the expenses of a game_. Faire une ----, _to
deposit in a money-box the winnings of players which are to be invested
to the common advantage of the whole party_.
CAGOU, _m._ (thieves’), _rogue who operates single-handed_; _expert
thief_, or “gonnof,” _who takes charge of the education of the
uninitiated after the manner of the old Jew Fagin_ (see _Oliver
Twist_); _a tutor such as is to be met with in a_ “buz napper’s
academy,” _or training school for thieves_; _in olden times a
lieutenant of the_ “grand Coëre,” _or king of rogues_. The kingdom of
the “grand Coëre” was divided into as many districts as there were
“provinces” or counties in France, each superintended by a “cagou.”
Says _Le Jargon de l’Argot_:--
Le cagou du pasquelin d’Anjou résolut de se venger de lui
et de lui jouer quelque tour chenâtre.
CAHUA, _m._ (French soldiers’ in Algeria), _coffee_. Pousse ----,
_brandy_.
CAILLASSE, _f._ (popular), _stones_.
CAILLÉ (thieves’), _fish_.
CAILLOU, _m._ (popular), _grotesque face_; _head_, or “block;” _nose_,
or “boko;” ---- déplumé, _bald head_, or “bladder of lard.” N’avoir
plus de mousse sur le ----, _to be bald_, “to be stag-faced.”
CAILLOUX, _m. pl._ (popular), petits ----, _diamonds_.
CAÏMAN, _m._ (Ecole Normale school), _usher_.
CAISSE, _f._ (popular), d’épargne, _mouth_, or “rattle-trap;”
(familiar) ---- des reptiles, _fund for the bribing of journalists_;
---- noire, _secret funds at the disposal of the Home Secretary and
Prefect of Police_. Battre la ----, _to puff up_. Sauver la ----, _to
appropriate or abscond with the contents of the cash-box_.
CAISSON, _m._ (familiar), _head_, “nut.” Se faire sauter le ----, _to
blow one’s brains out_.
CALABRE, _m._ (thieves’), _scurf_.
CALAIN, _m._ (thieves’), _vine-dresser_.
CALANCHER (vagrants’), _to die_, “to croak.” See PIPE.
CALANDE (thieves’), _walk, lounge_.
CALANDRINER (popular), le sable, _to live a wretched, poverty-stricken
life_.
CALE, _f._ (sailors’), se lester la ----, _to eat and drink_. See
MASTIQUER.
CALÉ, CALÉE, _adj._, properly _propped up_; (popular) _well off_, “with
plenty of the needful.”
CALEBASSE, _f._ (popular), _head_, or “cocoa-nut.” Grande ----, _tall,
thin, badly attired woman_. Vendre la ----, _to reveal a secret_.
CALEBASSES, _f._ (popular), _large soft breasts_. Literally _gourds_.
CALÈGE, _f._ (thieves’), _kept woman_.
CALENCE, _f._ (popular), _dearth of work_.
CALER (popular), _to do_; _to do nothing_; _to be out of work_, or “out
of collar;” _to strike work_; ---- l’école, _to play the truant_. Se
----, _to eat_. Se ---- les amygdales, _to eat_, “to grub.” (Thieves’)
Caler des boulins aux lourdes, _to bore holes in doors_.
CALETER (popular), _to decamp_, “to hook it.” See PATATROT.
CALEUR (popular), _lazy workman_, or “shicer;” _man out of work_;
_butler_; _waiter_ (from the German kellner).
CALFATER (sailors’), se ---- le bec, _to eat_. Literally _to caulk_.
CALIBORGNE. See CALORGNE.
CALICOT, _m._ (familiar), _draper’s assistant_, or “counter jumper.”
CALICOTE, _sweetheart_, or “flame,” _of a_ “knight of the yard.”
CALIFORNIEN (popular), _rich_, “worth a lot of tin.” See MONACOS.
CÂLIN, _m._, _small tin fountain which the retailers of coco carry on
their backs_. Coco is a cooling draught made of liquorice, lemon, and
water.
CALINO, _m._ (familiar), _ninny_; _one capable of the most enormous_
“bulls.”
CALINOTADE, _f._, _sayings of a_ calino (which see).
CALINTTES, _f._ (popular), _breeches_, or “hams,” or “sit-upons.”
CALLOT, _m._ (thieves’), _scurvy_.
CALLOTS, _m. pl._ (old cant), _variety of tramps_.
Les callots sont ceux qui sont teigneux véritables ou
contrefaits; les uns et les autres truchent tant aux
entiffes que dans les vergnes.--_Le Jargon de l’Argot._
CALME ET INODORE (familiar), être ----, _to assume a decorous
appearance_. Soyez ----, _behave yourself with decorum_; _do not be
flurried_.
CALOMBE. See CABANDE.
CALOQUET, _m._ (thieves’), _hat_; _crown_. See TUBARD.
CALORGNE, _adj._ (popular), _one-eyed_, “boss-eyed,” or “seven-sided.”
CALOT, _m._ (thieves’), _thimble_; _walnut shell_; _eye_. Properly
_large marble_. Boiter des calots, _to squint_. Reluquer des calots,
_to gaze_, “to stag.”
J’ai un chouett’ moure,
La bouch’ plus p’tit’ que les calots.
=RICHEPIN.=
Calot, _clothier’s shopman_, or “counter-jumper;” _over-particular,
troublesome customer_.
CALOTIN, _m._ (familiar), _priest_; _one of the Clerical party_.
CALOTTE, _f._ (familiar), _clergy_. Le régiment de la ----, _the
company of the Jesuits_.
CALOTTÉE, _f._ (rodfishers’), _worm-box_.
CALVIGNE, or CLAVIGNE, _f._ (thieves’), _vine_.
CALVIN, or CLAVIN, _m._ (thieves’), _grapes_.
CALYPSO, _f._ (popular), faire sa ----, _to show off, to pose_.
CAM, _f._ (thieves’), lampagne de ----, _country_, or “drum.”
CAMARADE, _m._ (popular), de pionce, _bed-fellow_; (military)
_regimental hair-dresser_. (Familiar) Bon petit ---- _is said
ironically of a colleague who does one an ill turn, or slanders one_.
CAMARDE, _f._ (thieves’), _death_. Baiser la ----, _to die_. See PIPE.
CAMARDER (thieves’), _to die_.
CAMARLUCHE, _m._ (popular), _comrade_, “mate.”
CAMARO, _m._ (popular), _comrade_, or “mate.”
CAMBOLER (popular), _to fall down_.
CAMBOUIS, _m._ (military), _army service corps_. Properly _cart grease_.
CAMBRIAU, CAMBRIEUX, _m._ (popular), _hat_, or “tile.” See TUBARD.
CAMBRIOLE, _f._ (thieves’), _room_, or “crib;” _shop_, or “swag.”
Gy, Marpaux, gy nous remouchons
Tes rouillardes et la criole
Qui parfume ta cambriole.
=RICHEPIN.=
Cambriole de milord, _sumptuous apartment_. Rincer une ----, _to
plunder a room or shop_.
CAMBRIOLEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _thief who operates in apartments_; ----
à la flan, _thief of that description who operates at random, or on_
“spec.”
CAMBRIOT, _m._ (popular), _hat_, “tile.” See TUBARD.
CAMBRONISER, euphemism for emmerder (which see).
CAMBRONNE! euphemism for a low but energetic expression of refusal or
contempt, which is said to have been the response of General Cambronne
at Waterloo when called upon to surrender (see _Les Misérables_, by V.
Hugo). Sterne says, in his _Sentimental Journey_, that “the French have
three words which express all that can be desired--‘diable!’ ‘peste!’”
The third he has not mentioned, but it seems pretty certain it must be
the one spoken of above.
CAMBROUSE, _f._ (popular), _a tawdrily-dressed servant girl_; _a
semi-professional street-walker_, “dolly mop;” (thieves’) _country,
suburbs_.
CAMBROUSER (servants’), _to get engaged as a maid-servant_.
CAMBROUSIEN, _m._ (thieves’), _peasant_, or “joskin.”
CAMBROUSIER, _m._ (thieves’), _country thief_.
CAMBROUX, _m._ (thieves’), _servant_; _waiter_.
CAMBUSE, _f._ (popular), _house_, or “crib;” _sailors’ canteen_;
_wine-shop_.
CAMÉLIA, _m._, _kept woman_ (_La Dame aux Camélias_, by A. Dumas fils).
CAMELOT, _m._ (popular), _tradesman; thief_; _hawker of any articles_.
Le camelot, c’est le Parisien pur sang ... c’est lui qui
vend les questions, les jouets nouveaux, les drapeaux
aux jours de fête, les immortelles aux jours de deuil,
les verres noircis aux jours d’éclipse ... des cartes
transparentes sur le boulevard et des images pieuses sur la
place du Panthéon.--=RICHEPIN=, _Le Pavé_.
CAMELOTE, _f._ (popular), _prostitute of the lowest class_, or
“draggle-tail;” (thieves’) ---- grinchie, _stolen property_. Etre pris
la ---- en pogne, or en pied, _to be caught, “flagrante delicto,” with
the stolen property in one’s possession_. Laver la ----, _to sell
stolen property_. Prendre la ---- en pogne, _to steal from a person’s
hand_.
CAMELOTER (popular), _to sell_; _to cheapen_; _to beg_; _to tramp_.
CAMERLUCHE or CAMARLUCHE, _m._ (popular), _comrade_, or “mate.”
CAMIONNER (popular), _to conduct_; _to lead about_.
CAMISARD, _m._ (military), _soldier of the “Bataillon d’Afrique,”_
a corps composed of liberated military convicts, who, after having
undergone their sentence, are not sent back to their respective
regiments. They are incorporated in the Bataillon d’Afrique, a regiment
doing duty in Algeria or in the colonies, where they complete their
term of service; ---- en bordée, _same meaning_.
CAMISOLE, _f._ (popular), _waistcoat_, or “benjy.”
CAMOUFLE, _f._ (thieves’), _description of one’s personal appearance_;
_dress_; _light or candle_, “glim.” La ---- s’estourbe, _the light is
going out_.
CAMOUFLEMENT, _m._ (thieves’), _disguise_.
CAMOUFLER (thieves’), _to learn_; _to adulterate_. Se ----, _to
disguise oneself_.
Je me camoufle en pélican,
J’ai du pellard à la tignasse.
Vive la lampagne du cam!
=RICHEPIN.=
CAMOUFLET, _m._ (thieves’), _candlestick_.
CAMP, _m._ (popular), ficher le ----, _to decamp_. Lever le ----, _to
strike work_. Piquer une romance au ----, _to sleep_.
CAMPAGNE, _f._ (prostitutes’), aller à la ----, _to be imprisoned in
Saint-Lazare, a dépôt for prostitutes found by the police without a
registration card, or sent there for sanitary motives_. (Thieves’)
Barboteur de ----, _night thief_. Garçons de ----, or escarpes,
_highwaymen or housebreakers who pretend to be pedlars_.
CAMPE, _f._ (cads’), _flight_; _camping_.
CAMPER (cads’), _to flee_, “to brush.”
CAMPEROUX. See CAMBROUX.
CAMPHRE, _m._ (popular), _brandy_.
CAMPHRIER, _m._ (popular), _retailer of spirits_; _one who habitually
gets drunk on spirits_.