CHABANNAIS, _m._ (popular), _noise_; _row_; _thrashing_. Ficher un
----, _to thrash_, “to wallop.” See VOIE.
CHABROL, _m._ (popular), _mixture of broth and wine_.
CHACAL, _m._ (military), _Zouave_.
CHAFFOURER (popular), se ----, _to claw one another_.
CHAFRIOLER (popular), se ---- à quelque chose, _to find pleasure in
something_.
CHAHUT, _m._ (familiar and popular), _eccentric dance, not in favour
in respectable society, and in which the dancers’ toes are as often on
a level with the faces of their partners as on the ground_; _uproar_,
“shindy,” _general quarrel_. Faire du ----, _to make a noise, a
disturbance_.
CHAHUTER (familiar and popular), _to dance the_ chahut (which see); _to
upset_; _to shake_; _to rock about_. Nous avons été rudement chahutés,
_we were dreadfully jolted_. Ne chahute donc pas comme ça, _keep still,
don’t fidget so_.
CHAHUTEUR, _m._ (popular), _noisy, restless fellow_; _one who dances
the_ chahut (which see).
CHAHUTEUSE, _f._ (popular), _habituée of low dancing-saloons_. Also _a
girl leading a noisy, fast life_.
CHAILLOT (popular), à ----! _go to the deuce!_ à ---- les gêneurs! _to
the deuce with bores!_ Ahuri de ----, blockhead. Envoyer à ----, _to
get rid of one_; _to send one to the deuce_.
CHAÎNE, _f._ (popular), d’oignons, _ten of cards_.
CHAÎNISTE, _m._ (popular), _maker of gold chains_.
CHAIR, _f._ (cads’), dure! _hit him hard! smash him!_ That is, Fais
lui la chair dure! (Popular) Marchand de ---- humaine, _keeper of a
brothel_.
CHAISES, _f. pl._ (popular), manquer de ---- dans la salle à
manger, _to be minus several teeth_. Noce de bâtons de ----, _grand
jollification_, or “flare-up.”
CHALEUR! (popular), _exclamation expressive of contempt, disbelief,
disappointment, mock admiration, &c._
CHALOUPE, _f._ (popular), _woman with dress bulging out_. (Students’)
La ---- orageuse, _a furious sort of cancan_. The cancan is an
eccentric dance, and one of rather questionable character. See CHAHUT.
CHALOUPER (students’), _to dance the above_.
CHAMAILLER (popular), des dents, _to eat_.
CHAMBARD, _m._ (Ecole Polytechnique), _act of smashing the furniture
and destroying the effects of the newly-joined students_.
CHAMBARDEMENT, _m._ (sailors’), _overthrown_; _destruction_.
CHAMBARDER (sailors’), _to hustle_; _to smash_. At the Ecole
Polytechnique, _to smash, or create a disturbance_.
CHAMBERLAN, _m._ (popular), _workman who works at home_.
CHAMBERT, _m._ (thieves’), _one who talks too much_; _one who lets the
cat out of the bag_.
CHAMBERTER (thieves’), _to talk in an indiscreet manner_.
CHAMBRE, _f._ (thieves’), de sûreté, _the prison of La Conciergerie_.
La ---- des pairs, _that part of the dépôt reserved for convicts
sentenced to penal servitude for life_.
CHAMBRER (swindlers’), _to lose_; _to steal_; _to_ “claim.” See
GRINCHIR.
CHAMBRILLON, _m._, _small servant_; _young_ “slavey.”
CHAMEAU, _m._ (popular), _cunning man who imposes on his friends_;
_girl of lax morals; prostitute_; ---- a deux bosses, _prostitute_. Ce
---- de ..., _insulting expression applied to either sex_.
Coupeau apprit de la patronne que Nana était débauchée
par une autre ouvrière, ce petit chameau de Léonie, qui
venait de lâcher les fleurs pour faire la noce.--=ZOLA=,
_L’Assommoir_.
CHAMELIERS, _m. pl._ (military), _name formerly given to the old_
“_guides_.”
CHAMP, _m._ (familiar), _champagne_, “fiz,” or “boy;” (popular) ----
d’oignons, _cemetery_; ---- de navets, _cemetery where executed
criminals are interred_.
CHAMPOREAU, _m._ (military), _beverage concocted with coffee, milk,
and some alcoholic liquor, but more generally a mixture of coffee and
spirits_. From the name of the inventor.
Le douro, je le gardais précieusement, ayant grand soin
de ne pas l’entamer. J’eusse préféré jeûner un long mois
de champoreau et d’absinthe.--=HECTOR FRANCE=, _Sous le
Burnous_.
CHANÇARD, _m._ (familiar), _lucky man_.
CHANCELLERIE, _f._ (popular), mettre en ----, _to put one in_
“chancery.”
CHANCRE, _m._ (popular), _man with a large appetite_, a “grand paunch.”
CHAND, CHANDE (popular), abbreviation of marchand.
CHANDELIER, _m._ (popular), _nose_, “boko,” “snorter,” or “smeller.”
For synonyms see MORVIAU.
CHANDELLE, _f._ (military), _infantry musket_; _sentry_. Etre conduit
entre quatre chandelles, _to be marched off to the guard-room by four
men and a corporal_. La ---- brûle, _it is time to go home_. Faire
fondre une ----, _to drink a bottle of wine_. Glisser en ----, _to
slide with both feet close together_.
Mon galopin file comme une flèche. Quelle aisance! quelle
grâce même! Tantôt les pieds joints, en chandelle: tantôt
accroupi, faisant la petite bonne femme.--=RICHEPIN=, _Le
Pavé_.
CHANGER (popular), son poisson d’eau, or ses olives d’eau, _to void
urine_, “to pump ship.” See LASCAILLER.
CHANGEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _clothier who provides thieves with a
disguise_; _rogue who appropriates a new overcoat from the lobby of a
house or club, and leaves his old one in exchange_. Also _thief who
steals plate_.
CHANOINE, _m._, CHANOINESSE, _f._ (thieves’), _person in good
circumstances, one worth robbing_; ---- de Monte-à-regret, _one
sentenced to death_; _old offender_.
CHANTAGE, _m._ (familiar), _extorting money by threats of disclosures
concerning a guilty action real or supposed_, “jobbery.”
CHANTER (familiar), _to pay money under threat of being exposed_. Faire
---- quelqu’un, _to extort money from one under threat of exposure_;
_to extort_ “socket money.” (Popular) Faire ---- une gamme, _to thrash
one_, “to lead a dance.” See VOIE.
CHANTEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _juge d’instruction, a magistrate who
investigates a case before trial_; (familiar) _man who seeks to extort
money by threatening people with exposure_. There are different kinds
of chanteurs. Vidocq terms “chanteurs” the journalists who prey on
actors fearful of their criticism; those who demand enormous prices for
letters containing family secrets; the writers of biographical notices
who offer them at so much a line; those who entice people into immoral
places and who exact hush-money. The celebrated murderer Lacenaire was
one of this class. Chanteur de la Chapelle Sixtine, _eunuch_. Maître
----, _skilful_ chanteur (which see).
CHANTIER, _m._ (popular), _embarrassment_, “fix.”
CHAPARDER (military), _to loot_; _to steal_, “to prig.”
CHAPELLE, _f._ (familiar), _clique_. Termed also “petite chapelle;”
(popular) _wine-shop_, or “lush-crib.” Faire ----, _is said of a
woman who lifts her dress to warm her limbs by the fire_. Fêter des
chapelles, _to go the round of several wine-shops, with what result it
is needless to say_.
CHAPELURE, _f._ (popular), n’avoir plus de ---- sur le jambonneau, _to
be bald_, “to have a bladder of lard.” See AVOIR.
CHAPI, _m._ (popular), _hat_, or “tile.” See TUBARD.
CHAPITEAU, _m._ (popular), _head_, or “block.” See TRONCHE.
CHAPON, _m._ (popular), _monk_. Cage à chapons, _monastery_. Des
chapons de Limousin, _chestnuts_.
CHAPSKA, _m._ (popular), _hat_, or “tile.” See TUBARD.
CHAR, _m._ (familiar), numéroté, _cab_.
CHARCUTER (popular), _to amputate_.
CHARCUTIER (popular), _clumsy workman_; _surgeon_, “sawbones.”
CHARDONNERET, _m._ (thieves’), _gendarme_. An allusion to his red,
white, and yellow uniform. Properly _a goldfinch_.
CHARENTON, _m._ (popular), _absinthe_. The dépôt for lunatics being at
Charenton, the allusion is obvious.
CHARGÉ, _adj._ (popular), _tipsy_, “tight.” See POMPETTE. (Coachmen’s)
Etre ----, _to have a “fare_.”
CHARGER (coachmen’s), _to take up a “fare;”_ (prostitutes’) _to find a
client_; (cavalry) ---- en ville, _to go to town_.
CHARIER (thieves’), _to try to get information_, “to cross-kid.”
CHARIEUR (thieves’), _he who seeks to worm out some information_.
CHARLEMAGNE, _m._ (military), _sabre-bayonet_.
CHARLOT, _m._ (popular and thieves’), _the executioner_. His official
title is “Monsieur de Paris.” Soubrettes de ----, _the executioner’s
assistants_, literally _his lady’s maids_. An allusion to “la
toilette,” or cropping the convict’s hair and cutting off his shirt
collar a few minutes before the execution. (Thieves’) Charlot, _thief_;
---- bon drille, _a good-natured thief_. See GRINCHE.
CHARMANT, _adj._ (thieves’), _scabby_.
CHARMANTE, _f._ (thieves’), _itch_.
CHARMER (popular), les puces, _to get drunk_. See SCULPTER.
CHAROGNEUX, _adj._ (familiar), roman ----, _filthy novel_.
CHARON, CHARRON, _m._ (thieves’). See CHARRIEUR.
CHARPENTER (playwrights’), _to write the scheme of a play_.
CHARPENTIER, _m._ (playwrights’), _he who writes the scheme of a play_.
CHARRETÉE, _f._ (popular), en avoir une ----, _to be quite drunk, to
be_ “slewed.” See POMPETTE.
CHARRIAGE, _m._ (thieves’), _swindle_; ---- à l’Américaine _is a
kind of confidence trick swindle_. It requires two confederates, one
called “leveur” or “jardinier,” whose functions are to exercise his
allurements upon the intended victim without awakening his suspicions.
When the latter is fairly hooked, the pair meet--by chance of
course--with “l’Américain,” a confederate who passes himself off for a
native of America, and who offers to exchange a large sum of gold for
a smaller amount of money. The pigeon gleefully accepts the proffered
gift, and discovers later on that the alleged gold coins are nothing
but base metal. This kind of swindle goes also by the names of “vol
à l’Américaine,” “vol au change.” Charriage à la mécanique, or vol
au père François, takes place thus: a robber throws a handkerchief
round a person’s neck, and holds him fast half-strangled on his own
back while a confederate rifles the victim’s pockets. Charriage au
coffret: the thief, termed “Américain,” leaves in charge of a barmaid a
small box filled to all appearance with gold coin; he returns in the
course of the day, but suddenly finding that he has lost the key of
the box, he asks for a loan of money and disappears, leaving the box
as security. It goes without saying that the alleged gold coins are
nothing more than brand-new farthings. Charriage au pot, another kind
of the confidence trick dodge. One confederate forms an acquaintance
with a passer-by, and both meet with the other confederate styled
“l’Américain,” who offers to take them to a house of ill-fame and
defray all expenses, but who, being fearful of getting robbed, deposits
his money in a jug or other receptacle. On the way he suddenly alters
his mind, and sends the victim for the sum, not without having exacted
bail-money from him as a guarantee of his return, after which both
scamps make off with the fool’s money. Swindlers of this description
are termed “magsmen” in the English slang.
CHARRIER (thieves’), _to swindle one out of his money by misleading
statements_. See CHARRIAGE.
CHARRIEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _thief who employs the mode termed_
charriage (which see); _confederate who provides cardsharpers with
pigeons_; ---- de ville, _a robber who first makes his victims
insensible by drugs, and then plunders them_, a “drummer;” ----
cambrousier, _itinerant quack_; _clumsy thief_.
CHARTREUSE, _f._ (popular), de vidangeur, _small measure of wine_.
CHARTRON, _m._ (theatrical), faire le ----, _is said of actors who
place themselves in a row in front of the footlights_.
CHASON, _m._ (thieves’), _ring_, “fawney.”
CHASSE, _f._ (popular), aller à la ---- au barbillon, _to go
a-fishing_. Foutre une ----, _to scold vehemently_, “to haul over the
coals.”
CHÂSSE, _f._ (thieves’), _eye_, “glazier.” Balancer, boiter des
châsses, _to be one-eyed_, “boss-eyed;” _to squint_. Se foutre l’apôtre
dans la ----, _to be mistaken_.
CHASSE-BROUILLARD (popular), _a drop of spirits_; _a dram to keep the
damp out_, a “dewdrop.”
CHASSE-COQUIN, _m._ (popular), _gendarme; beadle_, “bumble;” _bad wine_.
CHASSELAS, _m._ (popular), _wine_.
CHASSEMAR, _m._ (popular), for chasseur.
CHASSE-MARÉE, _m._ (military), _chasseurs d’Afrique, a body of light
cavalry_.
CHASSE-NOBLE, _m._ (thieves’), _gendarme_.
CHASSER (popular), au plat, _to be a parasite_, a “quiller;” ---- des
reluits, _to weep_, “to nap a bib;” ---- le brouillard, _to have a
morning dram of spirits_, or a “dewdrop;” ---- les mouches, _to be
dying_. See PIPE. (Thieves’ and cads’) Chasser, _to flee_, “to guy.”
See PATATROT.
Gn’a du pet, interrompt un second voyou qui survient, v’là
un sergot qui s’amène ... chassons!--=RICHEPIN.=
D’occase, abbreviation of d’occasion, _secondhand_.
CHÂSSIS, _m._ (popular), _eyes_, or “peepers.” Fermer les ----, _to
sleep_.
CHASSUE, _f._ (thieves’), _needle_. Chas, _eye of a needle_.
CHASSURE, _f._ (thieves’), _wine_.
CHASUBLARD, _m._ (popular), _priest_, or “devil dodger.”
Vit-on un seul royaliste, un seul cagot, un seul
chasublard, prendre les armes pour la défense du trône et
de l’autel?--=G. GUILLEMOT=, _Le Mot d’Ordre_, Sept. 6,
1877.
CHAT, _m._ (thieves’), _turnkey_, “dubsman;” (popular) _slater_, from
his spending half his life on roofs like cats. Avoir un ---- dans la
gouttière, _to be hoarse_.
CHÂTAIGNE, _f._ (popular), _box on the ear_, or “buck-horse.”
CHATAUD, CHATAUDE, _adj._ (popular), _greedy_.
CHÂTEAU, _m._ (popular), branlant, _person or thing always in motion_.
(Thieves’) Château, _prison_; ---- de l’ombre, _convict settlement_. Un
élève du ----, _a prisoner_.
CHÂTEAU-CAMPÊCHE (familiar and popular), _derisive appellation for
bad wine, of which the ruby colour is often due to an adjunction of
logwood_.
CHATON, _m._ (popular), _nice fellow_; _Sodomist_.
CHATOUILLAGE AU ROUPILLON, _m._ (thieves’). See VOL AU POIVRIER.
CHATOUILLER (theatrical), le public, _to indulge in drolleries
calculated to excite mirth among an audience_; (familiar) ---- les
côtes, _to thrash_, “to lick.”
CHATOUILLEUR (familiar), _man on ’Change who by divers contrivances
entices the public into buying shares_, a “buttoner;” (thieves’) _a
thief who tickles a person’s sides as if in play, and meanwhile picks
his pockets_.
CHATTE, _f._ (popular), _five-franc piece_.
CHAUD, _adj. and m._ (popular), _cunning_; _greedy_; _wide awake_, or
“fly;” _high-priced_. Il l’a ----, _he is wide awake about his own
interests_. Etre ----, _to look with watchful eye_. (Familiar) Un ----,
_an enthusiast_; _energetic man_. Il fera ----, _never_, “when the
devil is blind.” Quand vous me reverrez il fera ----, _you will never
see me again_. Etre ---- de la pince, _to be fond of women, to be a_
“beard-splitter.” (Artists’) Faire ----, _to employ very warm tints
after the style of Rembrandt and all other colourists_. (Popular and
thieves’) Chaud! _quick! on!_
Chaud, chaud! pour le mangeur, il faut le désosser.
--=E. SUE.=
CHAUDRON, _m._ (familiar), _bad piano_. Taper sur le ----, _to play on
the piano_.
CHAUDRONNER (popular), _to buy secondhand articles and sell them as
new_.
CHAUDRONNIER, _m._ (popular), _secondhand-clothes man_; (military)
_cuirassier_, an allusion to his breastplate.
CHAUFAILLON (popular), _stoker_.
CHAUFFE-LA-COUCHE (familiar), _man who loves well his comfort_;
_henpecked husband_, or “stangey.”
CHAUFFER (popular), le four, _to drink heavily_, “to guzzle.” See
RINCER. (Familiar) Chauffer un artiste, une pièce, _to applaud so as
to excite the enthusiasm of an audience_; ---- une affaire, _to push
briskly an undertaking_; ---- une place, _to be canvassing for a post_.
Ça va chauffer, _there will be a hot fight_. Chauffer des enchères, _to
encourage bidding at an auction_.
CHAUFFEUR, _m._ (popular), _man who instills life into conversation
or in a company_; _formerly, under the Directoire, one of a gang of
brigands who extorted money from people by burning the feet of the
victims_.
CHAUMIR (thieves’), _to lose_.
CHAUSSETTE (thieves’), _ring fastened as a distinctive badge to the leg
of a convict who has been chained up for any length of time to another
convict, a punishment termed_ “double chaîne.”
CHAUSSETTES, _f. pl._ (military), _gloves_; ---- russes, _wrapper for
the feet made of pieces of cloth_; (popular) ---- de deux paroisses,
_odd socks_.
CHAUSSON, _m._ (popular), _old prostitute_. Putain comme ----, _regular
whore_. (Ballet girls’) Faire son ----, _to put on and arrange one’s
pumps_.
“Laissez-moi donc, je suis en retard. J’ai encore
mon mastic et mon chausson à faire.” Autrement, pour
ceux qui ne sont pas de la boutique, “il me reste
encore à m’habiller, à me chausser et à me faire ma
tête.”--=MAHALIN.=
CHAUSSONNER (popular), _to kick_.
CHAUVINISTE, _m._, synonymous of “chauvin,” _one with narrow-minded,
exaggerated sentiments of patriotism_, a “Jingo.”
CHEF, _m._ (military), abbreviation of maréchal-des-logis chef,
_quartermaster-sergeant in the cavalry_. (Popular) Chef de cuisine,
_foreman in a brewery_; (thieves’) ---- d’attaque, _head of a gang_.
CHELINGUER (popular), _to stink_. Termed also “plomber, trouilloter,
casser, danser, repousser, fouetter, vézouiller, véziner.”
CHEMINÉE, _f._ (popular), _hat_, “chimney pot.”
CHEMISE, _f._ (popular), être dans la ---- de quelqu’un, _to be
constantly with one_, _to be_ “thick as hops” _with one_. (Thieves’)
Chemise de conseiller, _stolen linen_.
CHEMISES, _f. pl._ (popular), compter ses ----, _to vomit_, or “to
cascade.” An allusion to the bending posture of a man who is troubled
with the ailment.
CHENÂTRE, _adj._ (thieves’), _good_, _excellent_, “nobby.”
Ils ont de quoi faire un chenâtre banquet avec des
rouillardes pleines de pivois et du plus chenâtre qu’on
puisse trouver.--_Le Jargon de l’Argot._
CHÊNE, _m._ (thieves’), _man_, or “cove;” ---- affranchi, _thief_, or
“flash cove.” For synonyms see GRINCHE. Faire suer un ----, _to kill a
man_, “to give a cove his gruel.”
CHENILLON, _m._ (popular), _ugly girl_.
CHENIQUE, or CHNIC, _m._ (popular), _brandy_, “French cream.”
CHENIQUEUR, _m._ (popular), _drinker of brandy_.
CHENOC, _adj._ (thieves’), _bad_; _good-for-nothing old fellow_.
CHENU, _adj._ (thieves’), _excellent_, “nobby.” Properly _old_,
_whitened by age_; ---- pivois, _excellent wine_; ---- reluit, _good
morning_; ---- sorgue, _good night_.
Je lui jaspine en bigorne,
Qu’as-tu donc à morfiller?
J’ai du chenu pivois sans lance,
Et du larton savonné.
=VIDOCQ.=
CHENUMENT (popular), _very well_; _very good_.
CHER (thieves’), se cavaler ----, _to decamp quickly_, _to_ “guy.” See
PATATROT.
CHÉRANCE, _f._ (thieves’), être en ----, _to be intoxicated_, or
“canon.”
CHERCHE (popular), _nothing_, or “love.” Etre dix à ----, _to be ten to
love at billiards_.
CHERCHER (popular), la gueulée, _to be a parasite_, a “quiller.”
(Familiar and popular) Chercher des poux à la tête de quelqu’un, _to
find fault with one on futile pretexts_; _to try and fasten on a
quarrel_.
CHÉREZ! (thieves’), _courage!_ _cheer up!_ _never say die!_ Villon,
15th century, has “chère lye,” _a joyous countenance_.
CHETARD, _m._ (thieves’), _prison_, or “stir.” See MOTTE.
CHÉTIF, _m._ (popular), _mason’s boy_.
CHEULARD, _m._ (popular), _gormandizer_, “grand-paunch.”
CHEVAL, _m._ (popular and thieves’), de retour, _old offender_;
_returned or escaped convict sent back to the convict settlement_.
Termed also “trique, canne.”
Me voilà donc cheval de retour, on me remet à Toulon, cette
fois avec les bonnets verts.--=V. HUGO.=
(Military) Cheval de l’adjudant, _camp bed of cell_; (familiar) ----
qui la connaît dans les coins, _a clever horse_. Literally _skilful at
turning the corners_. (Popular) Faire son ---- de corbillard, _to put
on a jaunty look_; _to give oneself conceited airs_; _to bluster_, or,
as the Americans say, “to be on the tall grass.”
CHEVALIER, _m._ (popular), de la courte lance, _hospital assistant_;
---- de la grippe, _thief_, or “prig.” See GRINCHE. Chevalier de
la manchette, _Sodomist_; ---- de la pédale, _one who works a
card-printing machine_; ---- de l’aune, _shopman_, or “knight of
the yard;” ---- de salon, de tapis vert, _gamester_; ---- du bidet,
_women’s bully_, or “pensioner.” See POISSON. Chevalier du crochet,
_rag-picker_, or “bone-grubber;” ---- du lansquenet, _gambling cheat
who has recourse to the card-sharping trick denominated_ “le pont”
(which see); ---- du lustre, “_claqueur_,” _that is, one who is paid
for applauding at theatres_; ---- du printemps, or de l’ordre du
printemps, _silly fellow who flowers his button-hole to make it appear
that he has the decoration of the “Légion d’Honneur;”_ ---- grimpant,
see VOLEUR AU BONJOUR.
CHEVAU-LÉGER, _m._ (familiar), _ultra-Conservative of the Legitimist
and Clerical party_. The chevau-légers were formerly a corps of
household cavalry.
CHEVAUX, _m. pl._ (popular), à doubles semelles, _legs_. Compare the
English expression, “to ride Shank’s mare, or pony.”
CHEVELU, _adj._ (familiar), art ----, littérateur ----, poète ----,
_art, literary man, poet of the “école romantique,” of which the chief
in literature was Victor Hugo_.
CHEVEU, _m._ (familiar), _difficulty_; _trouble_; _hindrance_; _hitch_.
Voilà le ----, _ay, there’s the rub_. J’ai un ----, _I have some
trouble on my mind, reason for uneasiness_. Il y a un ---- dans son
bonheur, _there is some trouble that mars his happiness_. (Popular)
Avoir un ---- pour un homme, _to fancy a man_. (Theatrical) Cheveu,
_unintentional jumbling of words by transposition of syllables_. This
kind of mistake when intentional Rabelais termed “équivoquer.”
En l’aultre deux ou trois miroirs ardents dont il faisait
enrager aulcunes fois les hommes et les femmes et leur
faisait perdre contenance à l’ecclise. Car il disait qu’il
n’y avait qu’une antistrophe entre femme folle à la messe
et femme molle à la fesse.--=RABELAIS=, _Pantagruel_.
See also _Œuvres de Rabelais_ (Garnier’s edition), _Pantagruel_, page
159.
CHEVEUX, _m._ (familiar and popular), avoir mal aux ----, _to have
a headache caused by overnight potations_. Faire des ---- gris à
quelqu’un, _to trouble one_, _to give anxiety to one_. Se faire des
---- blancs, _to fret_; _to feel annoyed at being made to wait a long
time_. Trouver des ---- à tout, _to find fault with everything_.
(Military) Passer la main dans les ----, _to cut one’s hair_.
CHEVILLARD, _m._ (popular), _butcher in a small way_.
CHEVILLES, _f._ (popular), _fried potatoes_. Termed “greasers” at the
R. M. Academy.
CHÉVINETTE, _f._ (popular), _darling_.
CHÈVRE, _f._ (popular), gober sa ----, _to get angry_, _to bristle up_,
“to lose one’s shirt,” “to get one’s monkey up.”
CHEVRON, _m._ (thieves’), _fresh offence against the law_. Properly
_military stripe_.
CHEVRONNÉ, _m._ (thieves’), _old offender_, _an old_ “jail-bird.”
CHEVROTIN, _adj._ (popular), _irritable_, “cranky,” “touchy.”
CHIADE, _f._ (schoolboys’), _hustling_, _pushing_.
CHIALLER (thieves’), _to squall_; _to weep_.