CAMPLOUSE, _f._ (thieves’), _country_.
CAMUSE, _f._ (thieves’), _carp_; _death_; _flat-nosed_.
CAN, _m._ (popular), abbreviation of canon, _glass of wine_. Prendre un
---- sur le comp, _to have a glass of wine at the bar_.
CANAGE, _m._ (popular), _death-throes_.
CANAILLADE, _f._ (popular), _offence against the law_.
J’ai fait beaucoup de folies dans ma jeunesse; mais au
cours d’une existence accidentée et décousue, je n’ai pas à
me reprocher une seule canaillade.--=MACÉ.=
CANAILLON, _m._ (popular), vieux ----, _old curmudgeon_.
CANARD, _m._ (familiar), _newspaper_; _clarionet_; (tramcar drivers’)
_horse_. (Popular) Bouillon de ----, _water_. (Thieves’) Canard sans
plumes, _bull’s pizzle, or rattan used for convicts_.
CANARDER (popular), _to take in_, “to bamboozle;” _to quiz_, “to carry
on.”
CANARDIER, _m._ (popular), _journalist_; _vendor of newspapers_;
(journalists’) _one who concocts_ “canards,” _or false news_;
(printers’) _newspaper compositor_.
CANARIE, _m._ (popular), _simpleton_, or “flat.”
CANASSON, _m._ (popular), _horse_, or “gee;” _old-fashioned woman’s
bonnet_. Vieux ----! _old fellow!_ “old cock!”
CANCRE, _m._ (fishermens’), jus de ----, _landsman_, or “land-lubber.”
Cancre, properly _poor devil_.
CANCRELAT, _m._ (popular), avoir un ---- dans la boule, _to be
crazy_. For other kindred expressions, see AVOIR. Cancrelat, properly
_kakerlac_, or _American cockroach_.
CANE, _f._ (thieves’), _death_.
CANELLE, _f._ (thieves’), _the town of Caen_.
CANER (thieves’), la pégrenne, _to starve_. Caner, properly _to shirk
danger_.
CANESON. See CANASSON.
CANETON, _m._ (familiar), _insignificant newspaper_. Termed also
“feuille de chou.”
CANEUR, _m._ (popular), _poltroon_, or “cow babe.”
CANICHE, _m._ (popular), _general term for a dog_. Properly _poodle_.
Termed also “cabgie, cabot.” It also has the signification of
_spectacles_, an allusion to the dog, generally a poodle, which acts
as the blind man’s guide. (Thieves’) Caniche, _a bale provided with
handles_, compared to a poodle’s ears.
CANNE, _f._ (police and thieves’), _surveillance exercised by the
police on the movements of liberated convicts_. Also _a liberated
convict who has a certain town assigned him as a place of residence,
and which he is not at liberty to leave_. Casser sa ----, _to break
bounds_. Une vieille ----, or une ----, _an old offender_. (Literary)
Canne, _dismissal, the_ “sack.” Offrir une ----, _to dismiss from one’s
employment_, “to give the sack.”
CANON, _m._ (popular), _glass of wine drunk at the bar of a wine-shop_.
Grand ----, _the fifth of a litre of wine_, and petit ----, _half that
quantity_. Viens prendre un ---- su’ l’ zinc, mon vieux zig, _I say,
old fellow, come and have a glass at the bar_. Se bourrer le ----, _to
eat to excess_, “to scorf.”
CANONNER (popular), _to drink wine at a wine-shop_; _to be an habitual
tippler_.
CANONNEUR, _m._ (popular), _tippler, a wine bibber_.
CANONNIER DE LA PIÈCE HUMIDE, _m._ (military), _hospital orderly_.
CANONNIÈRE, _f._ (popular), _the behind_, or “tochas.” See VASISTAS.
Charger la ----, _to eat_, “to grub.” Gargousses de la ----,
_vegetables_.
CANT, _m._ (familiar), _show of false virtue_. From the English word.
CANTALOUP, _m._ (popular), _fool_, “duffer,” or “cull.” Properly _a
kind of melon_.