CRIE, or CRIGNE, _f._ (thieves’), _meat_, “carnish.”
CRIN, _m._ (familiar), être comme un ----, _to be irritable or
irritated, to be_ “cranky,” or “chumpish.”
CRINOLINE, _f._ (players’), _queen of cards_.
CRIOLLE, _f._ (thieves’), _meat_, “carnish.” Morfiler de la ----, _to
eat meat_.
CRIOLLIER, _m._ (thieves’), _butcher_.
CRIQUE, _m. and f._ (popular), _brandy_; _an ejaculation_. Je veux bien
que la ---- me croque si je bois une goutte en plus de quatre litres
par jour! _may I be_ “jiggered” _if I drink more than four litres a
day!_
CRIQUER (popular), se ----, _to run away_, “to slope.” See PATATROT.
CRIS DE MERLUCHE, _m. pl._ (popular), _frightful howling_; _loud
complaints_.
CRISTALLISER (students’), _to idle about in a sunny place_.
CROC, abbreviation of escroc, _swindler_.
CROCHE, _f._ (thieves’), _hand_, “famble,” or “daddle.”
CROCHER (thieves’), _to ring_; _to pick a lock_, “to screw.” (Popular)
Se ----, _to fight_.
CROCODILE, _m._ (familiar), _creditor, or dun_; _usurer_; _foreign
student at the military school of Saint-Cyr_.
CROCQUE, _m._ (popular), _sou_.
CROCS, _m. pl._ (popular), _teeth_, “grinders.”
CROIRE (familiar), que c’est arrivé, _to believe too implicitly that a
thing exists_; _to have too good an opinion of oneself_.
CROISANT, _m._ (popular), _waistcoat_, or “benjy.”
CROISSANT, _m._ (popular), loger rue du ----, _to be an injured
husband_. An allusion to the horns.
CROIX, _f._ (popular), _six-franc piece_. An allusion to the cross
which certain coins formerly bore. According to Eugène Sue the old
clothes men in the Temple used the following denominations for coins:
pistoles, ten francs; croix, six francs; la demi-croix, three francs;
le point, one franc; le demi-point, half-a-franc; le rond, half-penny.
Croix de Dieu, _alphabet_, on account of the cross at the beginning.
CRÔME, or CROUME, _m._ (thieves’ and tramps’), _credit_, “jawbone,” or
“day.”
CROMPER (thieves’), _to save_; _to run away_, “to guy.” See PATATROT.
Cromper sa sorbonne, _to save one’s head_.
CROMPIR, _potato_. From the German grundbirne.
CRÔNE, _f._ (thieves’), _wooden platter_.
CRÔNÉE, _f._ (thieves’), _platter full_.
CROQUAILLON, _m._ (popular), _bad sketch_.
CROQUE. See CRIQUE.
CROQUEMITAINES, _m. pl._ (military), _soldiers who are sent to the
punishment companies in Africa for having wilfully maimed themselves in
order to escape military service_.
CROQUENEAU, _m._ (popular), _new shoe_; ---- verneau, _patent leather
shoe_.
CROQUET (popular), _irritable man_.
CROSSE, _f._ (thieves’), _receiver of stolen goods_, or “fence;”
_public prosecutor_.
CROSSER (thieves’), _to receive stolen goods_; _to strike the hour_.
Quand douze plombes crossent,
Les pègres s’en retournent,
Au tapis de Montron.
=VIDOCQ.=
CROSSEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _bell-ringer_.
CROSSIN. See CROSSE.
CROTAL, _m._, _student of the Ecole Polytechnique holding the rank of
sergeant_.
CROTTARD, _m._ (popular), _foot pavement_.
CROTTE D’ERMITE, _f._ (thieves’), _baked pear_.
CROTTIN, _m._ (military), sergent de ----, _non-commissioned officer at
the cavalry school of Saumur_. Thus termed because he is often in the
stables.
CROUMIER (horse-dealers’), _broker or agent of questionable honesty, or
one who is_ “wanted” _by the police_.
CROUPIONNER (popular), _to twist one’s loins about so as to cause one’s
dress to bulge out_.
CROUPIR (popular), dans le battant _is said of undigested food, which
inconveniences one_.
CROUSTILLE, _f._ (popular), casser un brin de ----, _to have a snack_.
CROUSTILLER (popular), _to eat_, “to grub.” See MASTIQUER.
CROÛTE, _f._ (popular), s’embêter comme une ---- de pain derrière une
malle, _to feel desperately dull_.
CROÛTEUM, _m._ (familiar), _collection of_ “croûtes,” _or worthless
pictures_.
CROÛTON, _m._ (artists’), _painter devoid of any talent_.
CROÛTONNER (artists’), _to paint worthless pictures, daubs_.
CROYEZ (popular), ça et buvez de l’eau, _expression used to deride
credulous people_. Literally _believe that and drink water_.
CRU (artists’), faire ----, see FAIRE.
CRUCIFIER (familiar), _to grant one the decoration of the Legion of
Honour_. The expression is meant to be jocular.
CRUCIFIX, or CRUCIFIX À RESSORT, _m._ (thieves’), _pistol_, “barking
iron.”
CUBE, _m._, _student of the third year in higher mathematics_
(mathématiques spéciales); (familiar) _a regular idiot_.
CUCURBITACÉ, _m._ (familiar), _a dunce_.
CUEILLIR (popular), le persil _is said of a prostitute walking the
streets_.
CUILLER, _f._ (popular), _hand_, or “daddle.”
CUIR, _m._ (popular), de brouette, _wood_. Escarpin en ---- de
brouette, _wooden shoe_. Gants en ---- de poule, _ladies’ gloves made
of fine skin_. Tanner le ----, _to thrash_, “to tan one’s hide.”
CUIRASSÉ, _m._ (popular), _urinals_.
CUIRASSER (popular), _to make_ “cuirs,” that is, in conversation
carrying on the wrong letter, or one which does not form part of a
word, to the next word, as, for instance, Donnez moi z’en, je vais t’y
m’amuser.
CUIRASSIER, _m._ (popular), _one who frequently indulges in_ “cuirs.”
See CUIRASSER.
CUIRE (popular), se faire ----, _to be arrested._ See PIPER.
CUISINE, _f._ (thieves’), _the Préfecture de Police_; (literary) ----
de journal, _all that concerns the details and routine arrangement of
the matter for a newspaper_. (Popular) Faire sa ---- à l’alcool, _to
indulge often in brandy drinking_.
CUISINER (literary), _to do, to concoct some inferior literary or
artistic work_.
CUISINIER, _m._ (thieves’), _spy_, or “nark;” _detective_; _barrister_;
(literary) _newspaper secretary_.
CUISSE, _f._ (familiar), avoir la ---- gaie _is said of a woman who is
too fond of men_.
CUIT, _adj._ (thieves’), _sentenced, condemned_, or “booked;” _done
for_.
CUITE, _f._ (popular), _intoxication_. Se flanquer une ----, _to get
drunk_, or “screwed.”
CUL, _m._ (popular), _stupid fellow_, or “duffer;” ---- d’âne,
_blockhead_; ---- de plomb, _slow man_, or “bummer;” _clerk_, or
“quill-driver;” _woman who awaits clients at a café_; ---- goudronné,
_sailor_, or “tar;” ---- levé, _game of écarté at which two players are
in league to swindle the third_; ---- rouge, _soldier with red pants_,
or “cherry bum;” ---- terreux, _peasant, clodhopper_. Montrer son ----,
_to become a bankrupt_, or “brosier.”
CULASSES, _f. pl._ (military), revue des ---- mobiles, _monthly medical
inspection_. Culasse, properly _the breech of a gun_.
CULBUTANT, _m._, or CULBUTE, _f._ (thieves’), _breeches_, or “hams.”
Termed also “fusil à deux coups, grimpants.” Esbigner le chopin dans sa
culbute, _to conceal stolen property in one’s breeches_.
CULBUTE, _f._ (thieves’), _breeches_. (Popular) La ----, _the circus_.
CULERÉE, _f._ (printers’), _composing stick which is filled up_.
CULOTTE, _m._ (popular and familiar), _money losses at cards_; _excess
in anything, especially in drink_. Grosse ----, _regular drunkard_.
Donner dans la ---- rouge _is said of a woman who is too fond of
soldiers’ attentions, of one who has an attack of_ “scarlet fever.”
Se flanquer une ----, _to sustain a loss at a game of cards_; _to get
intoxicated_. (Students’) Empoigner une ----, _to lose at a game, and
to have in consequence to stand all round_. (Artists’) Faire ----,
_exaggeration of_ FAIRE CHAUD (which see).
CULOTTÉ, _adj._ (popular), _hardened_; _soiled_; _seedy_; _red_, &c.
Etre ----, _to have a seedy appearance_. Un nez ----, _a red nose_.
CULOTTER (popular), se ----, _to get tipsy_; _to have a worn-out, seedy
appearance_. Se ---- de la tête aux pieds, _to get completely tipsy_.
CUMULARD, _m._ (familiar), _official who holds several posts at the
same time_.
CUPIDON, _m._ (thieves’), _rag-picker_, or “bone-grubber.” An ironical
allusion to his hook and basket.
CURE-DENTS (familiar), venir en ----, _to come to an evening party
without having been invited to the dinner that precedes it_. Termed
also “venir en pastilles de Vichy.”
CURETTE, _f._ (military), _cavalry sword_. Manier la ----, _to do sword
exercise_.
CURIEUX, _m._ (thieves’), _magistrate_, “beak,” or “queer cuffin.” Also
_juge d’instruction_, a magistrate who investigates cases before they
are sent up for trial. Grand ----, _chief judge of the assize court_.
CYCLOPE, _m._ (popular), _behind_, or “blind cheek.”
CYLINDRE, _m._ (popular), _top hat_, or “stove-pipe;” see TUBARD;
_body_, or “apple cart.” Tu t’en ferais péter le ----, _is expressive
of ironical refusal_; “don’t you wish you may get it.”
CYMBALE, _f._ (thieves’), _moon_, or “parish lantern;” (popular)
_escutcheon placed over the door of the house of a notary_.
D
DA (popular), mon ----, _my father_, “my daddy.” Ma ----, _my mother_,
“my mammy.”
DAB, dabe, _m._ (thieves’), _father_, or “dade;” _master_; _a god_.
Mercure seul tu adoreras,
Comme dabe de l’entrottement.
=VIDOCQ.=
Le ---- de la cigogne, _the procureur général_, or _public prosecutor_.
Grand ----, _king_.
Ma largue part pour Versailles...
Pour m’faire défourailler.
Mais grand dab qui se fâche,
Dit par mon caloquet,
J’li ferai danser une danse
Où i n’y a pas d’plancher.
=V. HUGO.=
DABE, _m._ (popular), d’argent, _speculum_. (Prostitutes’) Cramper avec
le ---- d’argent, _to be subjected to a compulsory medical examination
of a peculiar nature_.
DABÉRAGE, _m._ (popular), _talking_, “jawing.”
DABÉRER (popular), _to talk_, “to jaw.”
DABESSE, _f._ (thieves’), _mother_; _queen_.
DABICULE, _m._ (thieves’), _the master’s son_.
DABOT, DABMUCHE, _m._ (thieves’), _the prefect of police_, or _head of
the Paris police_; _a drudge_. Formerly it signified an unlucky player
_who has to pay all his opponents_.
DABUCAL, _adj._ (thieves’), _royal_.
DABUCHE, _f._ (thieves’), _mother_; _grandmother_, or “mami;” _nurse_.
DABUCHETTE, _f._ (thieves’), _young mother_; _mother-in-law_.
DABUCHON, _m._ (popular), _father_, “daddy.”
DACHE, _m._ (thieves’), _devil_, “ruffin,” or “black spy;” (military)
_hairdresser to the Zouaves_, _a mythical individual_. Allez donc
raconter cela à ----, _tell that to the “Marines“_.
DADA, _m._ (military), aller à ----, _to perform the act of coition_,
or “chivalry.” The old poet Villon termed this “chevaulcher.”
DAIL, _m._ (thieves’), je n’entrave que le ----, _I do not understand_.
DAIM, _m._ (popular), _swell_, or “gorger,” see GOMMEUX; _fool_, or
“duffer;” _gullible fellow_, “gulpy;” ---- huppé, _rich man_, _one
with plenty of_ “tin.”
DALE, DALLE, _f._ (thieves’), _money_, “quids,” or “pieces,” see QUIBUS.
Faut pas aller chez Paul Niquet,
Ça vous consomme tout vot’ pauv’ dale.
=P. DURAND.=
_Five-franc piece_; (popular) _throat_, or “red lane;” ---- du cou,
_mouth_, “rattle-trap.” Se rincer, or s’arroser la ----, _to drink_,
“to have something damp.” See RINCER.
J’ai du sable à l’amygdale.
Ohé! ho! buvons un coup,
Une, deux, trois, longtemps, beaucoup!
Il faut s’arroser la dalle
Du cou.
=RICHEPIN=, _Gueux de Paris_.
DALZAR, _m._ (popular), _breeches_, “kicks,” “sit-upons,” or “kicksies.”
DAME, _f._ (popular), blanche, _bottle of white wine_; ---- du lac,
_woman of indifferent character who frequents the purlieus of the Grand
Lac at the Bois de Boulogne_.
DAMER (popular), une fille, _to seduce a girl, to make a woman of her_.
DANAÏDES, _f._ (thieves’), faire jouer les ----, _to thrash a girl_.
DANDILLER (thieves’), _to ring_; _to chink_. Le carme dandille dans sa
fouillouse, _the money chinks in his pocket_.
DANDINAGE, _m._, DANDINETTE, _f._ (popular), _thrashing_, “hiding.”
DANDINE, _f._ (popular), _blow_, “wipe,” “clout,” “dig,” “bang,” or
“cant.” Encaisser des dandines, _to receive blows_.
DANDINER (popular), _to thrash_, “to lick.” See VOIE.
DANDINETTE. See DANDINAGE.
DANKIER (Breton), _prostitute_.
DANSE, _f._ (familiar), du panier, _unlawful profits on purchases_.
Flanquer une ---- à quelqu’un, _to thrash or_ “lick” _one_. See VOIE.
DANSER (popular), _to lose money_; _to pay_, “to shell out.” Il l’a
dansée de vingt balles, _he had to pay twenty francs_. Danser devant le
buffet, _to be fasting_, “to cry cupboard;” ---- tout seul, _to have
an offensive breath_. Faire ---- quelqu’un, _to make one stand treat_;
_to make one pay_, or “fork out;” _to thrash_, “to wallop.” See VOIE.
La ----, _to be thrashed_; _to be dismissed from one’s employment_, “to
get the sack.”
DANSEUR, _m._ (popular), _turkey cock_.
DARDANT, _m._ (thieves’), _love_.
Luysard estampillait six plombes.
Mezigo roulait le trimard,
Et, jusqu’au fond du coquemart,
Le dardant riffaudait ses lombes.
=RICHEPIN=, _Gueux de Paris_.
DARDELLE, _f._ (urchins’), _penny_ (gros sou).
DARIOLE, _f._ (popular), _slap or blow in the face_, “clout,” “bang,”
or “wipe.” Properly _a kind of pastry_.
DARIOLEUR, _m._ (popular), _inferior sort of pastry cook_.
DARON, _m._ (thieves’), _father_, “dade,” or “dadi;” _gentleman_, “nib
cove;” ---- de la raille, or de la rousse, _prefect of police, head of
the Paris police_.
DARONNE, _f._ (thieves’), _mother_; ---- du dardant, _Venus_; ---- du
grand Aure, _holy Virgin_; ---- du mec des mecs, _mother of God_.
DATTES, _f. pl._ (popular), des ----! _contemptuous expression of
refusal_; might be rendered by “you be hanged!” See NÈFLES.
Elle se r’tourne, lui dit: des dattes!
Tu peux t’fouiller vieux pruneau!
Tu n’tiens plus sur tes deux pattes.
Va donc, eh! fourneau!
_Parisian Song._
DAUBE, _f._ (popular), _cook_, or “dripping.”
DAUBEUR, _m._ (popular), _blacksmith_.
DAUCHE (popular), mon ----, _my father_; ma ----, _my mother_; “my old
man, my old woman.”
DAUFFE, _f._, DAUFFIN, DAUPHIN, _m._ (thieves’), _short crowbar_.
Termed also “l’enfant, Jacques, biribi, sucre de pommes, rigolo,” and
in the language of English housebreakers, that is, the “busters and
screwsmen,” “the stick, James, Jemmy.”
DAUPHIN, _m._ (popular), _girl’s bully_, “ponce,” see POISSON;
(thieves’) _short crowbar used by housebreakers_, “jemmy.”
DAVID, _m._ (popular), _silk cap_. From the maker’s name.
DAVONE, _f._ (thieves’), _plum_.
DE (familiar), se pousser du ----, _to place the word “de” before one’s
name to make it appear a nobleman’s_.
DÉ, _m._ (popular), or ---- à boire, _drinking glass_. Dé! _yes_.
Properly _thimble_.
DÉBÂCLE, _f._ (thieves’), _accouchement_. Properly _breaking up_,
_collapse_.
DÉBÂCLER (thieves’ and popular), _to open_; _to force open_; ---- la
lourde, _open the door_.
DÉBÂCLEUSE, _f._ (thieves’ and popular), _midwife_. Termed also
“tâte-minette, Madame Tire-monde.”
DÉBAGOULER (popular), _to speak_, “to jaw.”
DÉBALINCHARD, _m._ (popular), _one who saunters lazily about_.
DÉBALLAGE, _m._ (popular), _undress_; _getting out of bed_; _dirty
linen_. Etre floué or volé au ----, _to be grievously disappointed with
a woman’s figure when she divests herself of her garments_. Gagner au
----, _to appear to better advantage when undressed_.
DÉBALLER (popular), _to strip_. Se ----, _to undress oneself_.
DÉBANQUER (gamesters’), _to ruin the gaming bank_.
DÉBARBOUILLER (popular), à la potasse, _to strike one in the face_, “to
give one a bang in the mug;” _to clear up some matter_.
DÉBARDEUR, _m._, DÉBARDEUSE, _f._ (familiar), _dancers at fancy balls
dressed as a_ débardeur _or lumper_.
DÉBARQUER (popular), se ----, _to give up_; _to relinquish anything
already undertaken_, to “cave in.”
DÉBAUCHER (popular), _to dismiss_. Etre débauché, _to get the sack_.
The reverse of embaucher, _to engage_.
DÉBECQUETER (popular), _to vomit_, “to cast up accounts,” “to shoot the
cat.”
DÉBECTANT (popular), _annoying_; _tiresome_; _dirty_; _disgusting_.
DÉBINAGE, _m._ (familiar), _slandering_; _running down_. From débiner,
_to talk ill_, _to depreciate_.
DÉBINER (popular), _to depreciate_; ---- le truc, _to disclose a
secret_; _to explode a dodge, or fraud_.
Parbleu! je n’ignore pas ce que peuvent dire les blagueurs
pour débiner le truc de ces fausses paysannes.--=RICHEPIN=,
_Le Pavé_.
Se ---- des fumerons, _to run away_, “to leg it.” Se ----, _to abuse
one another_, “to slang one another;” _to run away_, “to brush,” see
PATATROT; _to grow weak_.
DÉBINEUR, _m._, DÉBINEUSE, _f._ (popular), _one who talks ill of
people_; _one who depreciates people or things_.
DÉBLAYER (theatrical), _to curtail portions of a part_; _to hurry
through a performance_.
A l’Opéra, ce soir ... on déblaye à bras raccourci: vous
savez que déblayer signifie écourter.--=P. MAHALIN.=
DÉBLOQUER (military), _to cancel an order of arrest_.
DÉBONDER (popular), _to ease oneself_; _to go to_ “West Central,” _or
to the_ “crapping ken.” See MOUSCAILLER.
DÉBORDER (popular), _to vomit_, “to cast up accounts,” or “to shoot the
cat.”
DÉBOUCLER (thieves’), _to open_; _to set a prisoner at liberty_.
DÉBOUCLEUR, _m._ (thieves’), de lourdes, _a housebreaker_, “buster,” or
“screwsman.”
DÉBOULER (popular), _to be brought to childbed_, “to be in the straw;”
_to arrive_, or “to crop up.”
DÉBOULONNÉ (popular), être ----, _to be dull-witted, or to be a_
“dead-alive.”
DÉBOULONNER (popular), la colonne à quelqu’un, _to thrash one soundly_,
“to knock one into a cocked hat.” See VOIE.
DÉBOURRÉ (horse-dealers’), cheval ----, _horse which suddenly loses its
fleshy appearance artificially imparted by rascally horse-dealers_.
DÉBOURRER (popular), _to educate one_, “to put one up to;” ----
sa pipe, _to ease oneself_, or “to go to the chapel of ease.” See
MOUSCAILLER. Se ----, _to become knowing_, “up to a dodge or two,” or a
“leary bloke.”
DÉBOUSCAILLER (popular), _to black one’s boots_.
DÉBOUSCAILLEUR (popular), _shoeblack_.
DÉBRIDER (thieves’), _to open_; ---- les chasses, _to open one’s eyes_;
(popular) ---- la margoulette, _to eat_, “to grub.” See MASTIQUER.
DÉBRIDOIR, _m._ (thieves’), _key_; _skeleton key_, “screw,” or “twirl.”
DÉBROUILLARD, _m._ (popular), _one who has a mind fertile in resource,
in contrivances to get on in the world, or to extricate himself out of
difficulties_, a “rum mizzler.” Also used as an adjective. Literally
_one who gets out of the fog_.
DÉBROUILLER (theatrical), un rôle, _to make oneself thoroughly
acquainted with the nature of one’s part before learning it, to realize
fully the character one has to impersonate_.
DÉCADENER (thieves’), _to unchain_.
DÉCALITRE, _m._ (popular), _top hat_, “stove-pipe.” See TUBARD.
DÉCAMPILLER (popular), _to decamp_, “to bunk.”
DÉCANAILLER (popular), se ----, _to rise from a state of abjection and
poverty._
DÉCANILLAGE, _m._ (popular), _departure_; _moving one’s furniture_;
---- à la manque, _moving after midsummer term_.
En juillet le déménagement est une fête. Mais en octobre,
n, i, ni, c’est fini de rire: le déménagement est funèbre
et s’appelle le décanillage à la manque.--=RICHEPIN=, _Le
Pavé_.
DÉCARCASSÉ, _adj._ (theatrical), _is said of a bad play_.
DÉCARCASSER (popular), quelqu’un, _to thrash one soundly_, “to knock
one into a cocked hat.” See VOIE. Se ----, _to give oneself much
trouble_; _to move about actively, fussily_. Décarcasse-toi donc,
rossard! _look alive, you lazy bones!_ Se ---- le boisseau, _to torture
one’s brains_; _to fret grievously_.
DÉCARRADE, _f._ (thieves’), _general scampering off_; _departure_.
DÉCARRE, _f._ (thieves’), _release from prison_.
Décarrement, _m._ (thieves’ and popular), _escape_.
DÉCARRER (thieves’), _to leave prison_; _to run away_, “to guy.” See
PATATROT.
On les emmène tous et pendant ce temps-là le gueusard
décarre avec son camarade.--=VIDOCQ.=
Also _to come out_.
Nous allons nous cacher dans l’allée en face, nous verrons
décarrer les messières.--=E. SUE.=
Décarrer à la bate, _to escape_; ---- cher, _to be released after
having done one’s_ “time;” ---- de belle, _to be released without
trial_; ---- de la geôle, _to be released on the strength of an order
of discharge_.
DÉCARTONNER (popular), se ----, _to grow old_; _to grow weak_.
DÉCATI, _adj._ (popular), _no longer young or handsome_; _seedy,
faded_. Elle a l’air bien ----, _she has a faded, worn appearance_.
DÉCATIR (popular), se ----, _to get faded, worn, seedy_.
DÉCAVAGE, _m._ (familiar), _circumstances of a gamester who has
lost all his money, or who has_ “blewed” _it_. From décavé, _ruined
gamester_.
DÉCEMBRAILLARD, _m._, _opprobrious epithet applied to Bonapartists_.
An allusion to the coup d’état of the 2nd December, 1851, when Louis
Napoléon Bonaparte, then President of the Republic, threw into prison
dissentient members of parliament and generals who refused to join in
the conspiracy, shelled the boulevards, shot down hundreds of harmless
loungers, and transported or exiled 50,000 republicans or monarchists.
DÉCEMBRISADE, _f._, _an act similar to the coup d’état of 2nd December,
1851_. See DÉCEMBRAILLARD.
DÉCHANTER (popular), _to recover from an error_; _to be crestfallen
after one’s illusions have been dispelled_; _to come down a peg or two_.
DÉCHARD, _m._ (popular), _needy_; _man who is_ “hard up.”
DÈCHE, _f._ (popular), _neediness_. Etre en ----, _to be_ “hard up”
_for cash_; “to be at low tide.”
DÉCHEUX, _m._ (popular), _needy man_, “quisby.”
DÉCHIRÉE, _f._ (popular), elle n’est pas trop ----, _is said of a woman
who is yet attractive in spite of years_.
DÉCHIRER (military), de la toile, _to perform platoon firing_; ---- la
cartouche, _to eat_. See MASTIQUER. (Popular) Déchirer son faux-col,
son habit, son tablier, _to die_. (Ironical) Ne pas se ----, _to have a
good opinion of oneself and to show it_.
DÉCLAQUER (popular), _to open one’s heart_; _to make a clean breast of_.
DÉCLOUER (popular), _to redeem objects from pawn_, _to get objects_
“out of lug.”
DÉCOGNOIR, _m._ (popular), _nose_, “boko,” or “smeller.” See MORVIAU.
DÉCOLLER (popular), _to leave a place_; _to leave one’s employment_;
---- son billard, _to die_. See PIPE. Se ----, _to fail_; _to grow old,
rickety_; _to die_, “to kick the bucket.”
DÉCOMPTE, _m._ (military), _mortal wound_. Recevoir son ----, _to die_;
see PIPE; “to lose the number of one’s mess.”
DÉCORS, _m. pl._ (freemasons’), _ornaments_, _insignia_.
DÉCOUCHEUR (military), _soldier who is in the habit of stopping away
without leave_.
DÉCOUDRE (familiar), en ----, _to fight either in a duel or with the
natural weapons_.
DÉCOUVRIR (popular), la peau de quelqu’un, _to make one say things
which he would rather have left unsaid_; “to pump one;” “to worm”
_secrets out of one_.
DÉCRAMPONNER (familiar), se ----, _to get rid of a troublesome person_.
Pourquoi ai-je quitté Paris? Pour me décramponner tout à
fait de cet imbécile qui, panné, décavé, commençait à me
porter la guigne.--=RICHEPIN=, _La Glu_.
DÉCRASSER (popular), quelqu’un, _to corrupt one_, “to put one up to
snuff;” (prostitutes’) ---- un homme, _to clean a man out of his
money_, and in thieves’ language, _to rob a man_. See GRINCHIR.
DÉCRAVATER (popular), ses propos, _to use language of an objectionable
character_, or “blue talk.”
DÉCROCHER (popular), _to take articles out of pawn_, or “out of lug;”
(military) _to shoot down_; (thieves’) _to steal handkerchiefs_, “to
haul stooks;” (popular) ---- un enfant, _to bring about a miscarriage_;
(familiar) ---- la timballe, _to be fortunate_, or, as the Americans
term it, “to get the cake,” or “to yank the bun.” An allusion to the
practice of hanging a silver cup as a prize at the top of a greasy pole.
DÉCROCHEZ-MOI-ÇA (popular), _woman’s bonnet_; _old clothes dealer_;
_shop where secondhand clothes, or_ “hand-me-downs,” _are sold_.
DÉCROTTER (popular), un gigot, _to leave nothing of a leg of mutton but
the bare bone_.
DÉCULOTTÉ, _m._ (popular), _bankrupt_, “brosier.”
DEDANS (familiar), fourrer or mettre quelqu’un ----, _to lock one
up_; _to impose upon one_, “to bamboozle.” Se mettre ----, _to make
a mistake_; _to get tipsy_. (Popular) Voir en ----, _to be tipsy_,
applicable especially to those who hold soliloquies when in their cups.
See POMPETTE.
DÉDÈLE, _f._ (popular), _mistress_, “moll.”
DÉDIRE (thieves’), se ---- cher, _to be at death’s door_. Properly _to
repent one’s crimes_.
DÉDURAILLER (thieves’), _to remove prisoners’ irons_.
DÉFALQUER (popular), _to ease oneself_; _to go to the_ “crapping ken.”
See MOUSCAILLER.
DÉFARGUER (thieves’), _to grow pale_; _to be acquitted_.
DÉFARGUEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _witness for the defence_.
DÉFENDRE (popular), sa queue, _to defend oneself_.
DÉFFARDEUR, _m._ (popular), _thief_, “cross cove.” See GRINCHE. From de
and fardeau, literally _one who eases you of your burden_.
DÉFIGER (popular), _to warm_. From de and figer, _to coagulate_.
DÉFILER (popular), aller voir ---- les dragons, _to go without a
dinner_. See ALLER. (Military) Défiler la parade, _to die_, “to lose
the number of one’s mess.” See PIPE. (Popular) Se ----, _to run away_,
“to leg it.” See PATATROT.
DÉFLEURIR (thieves’), la picouse, _to steal linen hung out to dry_, “to
smug snowy.”
DÉFORMER (popular), _to break_; _to put out of gear_. Je lui ai déformé
une quille, _I broke one of his legs_.
DÉFOUQUE. See DESFOUX.
DÉFOURAILLER (thieves’), _to run_, “to pad the hoof,” or “to guy;” see
PATATROT; _to fall_; _to be released from jail_.
DÉFRIMOUSSER (popular), synonymous with dévisager, _to peer into one’s
face_.
DÉFRUSQUER, DÉFRUSQUINER (popular), _to strip one of his clothes_. Se
----, _to undress_.
DÉGAUCHIR (thieves’), _to steal_, “to nim,” “to claim.” See GRINCHIR.
DÉGAZONNER (familiar), se ----, _to become bald_. Il a le coco tout
dégazonné, _he is quite bald_. See AVOIR.
DÉGEL, _m._ (popular), _death_.
DÉGELÉ (popular), _corpse_, “cold meat.”
DÉGELÉE, _f._ (popular), _thrashing_, “walloping.”
DÉGELER (popular), se ----, _to die_, “to kick the bucket;” see PIPE;
_to become knowing_. (Fencing) Dégeler son jeu, _to put spirit into
one’s play_.
DÉGLINGUER (popular), _to damage_.
DÉGOBILLADE, _f._ (popular), _vomit_; _very bad liquor_, “swizzle.”
DÉGOMMADE, _f._ (popular), _old age_; _decrepit state_.
DÉGOMMAGE, _m._ (popular), _dismissal_, “the sack;” _ruin_.
DÉGOMMER (popular), quelqu’un, _to excel over one_. Literally _to
dismiss one from a situation_; _to kill_. Se ----, _to grow old, faded_.
Je me rouille, je me dégomme.
=LABICHE.=
DÉGORGER (popular), _to pay_, “to fork out.”
DÉGOTTAGE, _m._ (popular), _action of surpassing one; of finding or
discovering something_.
DÉGOTTER (military), _to kill_; (popular) _to surpass one_; _to find_;
_to discover_.
Tiens! quoi donc que j’dégott’ dans l’noir,
Qu’est à g’noux, là-bas su’ l’trottoir?
Eh! ben, là-bas, eh! la gonzesse.
=GILL=, _La Muse à Bibi_.
DÉGOULER (popular), _to take away_; _to fall_, “to come a cropper.”
DÉGOULINAGE, _m._ (popular), _inferior drink_, “swizzle.”
DÉGOULINER (popular), _to drip_; ---- ce qu’on a sur le cœur, _to
unbosom_.
DÉGOURDI, _m._ (popular), ironical, _clumsy fellow_, “stick in the
mud.” Properly it has the opposite meaning.
DÉGOÛTATION, _f._ (popular), _expression of disgust_. Une ---- d’homme,
_a disgusting fellow_. The expression is a favourite one of the
street-walking tribe.
DÉGOÛTÉ, _adj._ (popular), ironical. N’être pas ----, _is said of one
who expresses a desire of obtaining something considered by others to
be too good for him; also of one who picks out for himself the most
dainty bits_.
DÉGRAISSER (popular), _to steal_, “to prig,” see GRINCHIR; ----
quelqu’un, to _fleece one_. Se ----, _to grow thin_.
DÉGRIMONER (popular), se ----, _to bestir oneself_; _to struggle_; _to
wriggle_.
DÉGRINGILLER (popular), _to come out_. Dégringillons de la carrée, _let
us leave the room_.
DÉGRINGOLADE, _f._ (thieves’), _theft in a shop_; ---- à la flûte,
_robbery committed by a street-walker_.
DÉGRINGOLER (thieves’), _to steal_, “to nim;” ---- à la carre,
_to steal property from shops_. This kind of robbery is practised
principally by women, and the thief is called a “bouncer.”
DÉGROSSIR (freemasons’), _to carve_.
DÉGROUPER (popular), se ----, _to separate_.
DÉGUEULARDER (thieves’), _to talk_, _to say_, “to rap.” Ne dégueularde
pas sur sa fiole, _say nothing about him_.
DÉGUEULAS, DÉGUEULATIF, _adj._ (popular), _annoying_; _disgusting_.
J’conobre l’truc; ’l est dégueulas.--=RICHEPIN.= (_I know
the trade; it is disgusting._)
DÉGUEULATOIRE, _adj._ (popular), _disgusting_; _repulsive_.
DÉGUEULBITE, DÉGUEULBOCHE, _adj._ (popular), _disgusting_.
DÉGUEULER (popular), _to sing_, or “to lip.”
DÉGUEULIS, _m._ (popular), _vomit_.
DÉGUIS, _m._ (thieves’), _disguise_.
DÉGUISER (popular), se ---- en cerf, _to make off_, “to brush,” or “to
leg it.” See PATATROT.
DÉJETÉ, _adj._ (popular), _weakly_; _ugly_. N’être pas trop ----, _to
be still handsome_.
DÉJEÛNER, _m. and verb_ (popular), de perroquet, _biscuit dipped in
wine_; (military) ---- à la fourchette, _to fight a duel_.
DÉJOSÉPHIER (popular), _to educate_, not in the better sense of the
word; “to put one up to snuff.” An allusion to Madame Potiphar’s
attempts on Joseph’s virtue.
DE LA BOURRACHE! (popular), _expressive of refusal_; might be rendered
by “no go!” “you be blowed.” See NÈFLES.
DÉLASS. COM. (popular), _theatre of the Délassements Comiques_.
DÉLICAT ET BLOND (popular), _is said ironically of a dandy_ or “Jemmy
Jessamy;” also _of an effeminate fellow who cannot bear pain or
discomfort_.
DÉLICOQUENTIEUSEMENT (theatrical), _marvellously_.
DÉLIGE, _f._ (popular), for diligence, _public coach_.
DÉMANCHER (popular), se ----, _to bestir oneself_; _to give oneself
much trouble_.
DÉMAQUILLER (thieves’), _to undo_.
DÉMARGER (thieves’), _to go away_; _to make off_, “to crush,” “to guy.”
See PATATROT.
DÉMARQUER (literary), _to pirate others’ productions, or to alter one’s
own so as to pass them off as original_.
DÉMARQUEUR, _m._ (literary), de linge, _literary pirate_.
DÉMÉNAGER (popular), _to become mad_, or “balmy;” _to die_, “to kick
the bucket;” ---- à la cloche de bois, de zinc, or à la sonnette de
bois, _to move one’s furniture secretly, the street door bell having
been muffled so as to give no more sound than a wooden one_, “to shoot
the moon;” ---- à la ficelle, _to remove one’s furniture through
a window by means of a rope_; ---- par la cheminée, _to burn one’s
furniture on receiving notice to quit, so as to cheat the landlord_.
DEMI-AUNE, _f._ (popular), _arm_, “bender.” Tendre la ----, _to beg_.
DEMI-CACHEMIRE, _f._ (familiar), _kept woman in a good position, but
who has not yet reached the top of the ladder_.
DEMI-CASTOR, _f._, _woman of the demi-monde_, a “pretty horse-breaker,”
or “tartlet.” See GADOUE.
DEMI-CERCLE, pincer au ----. See CERCLE.
DEMI-LUNE (popular), _rump_, “cheek.”
DEMI-MONDAINE, _f._ (familiar), _woman of the demi-monde_. See GADOUE.
DEMI-MONDE, _m._ (familiar), _the world of the higher class of kept
women_, _of_ “pretty horsebreakers.”
DEMI-SEL, DEMI-POIL, DEMI-VERTU, _f._ (popular), _girl who has lost her
maidenhead_, _her_ “ceincture,” as Villon termed it.
DEMI-STROC, _m._ (thieves’), _half a_ “setier,” _that is, one-fourth of
a litre_.
DÉMOC-SOC, _m._ (familiar), _socialist_. An abbreviation for
démocrate-socialiste.
DEMOISELLE, _f._ (popular), _a certain measure for wine, half a_
“monsieur;” _bottle of wine_.
DEMOISELLES, _f._ (familiar), ces ----, _euphemism for gay ladies_;
---- du bitume, du Pont Neuf, _street-walkers_.
DÉMOLIR (literary), _to criticise with harshness_, _to run down
literary productions_; (popular) _to thrash soundly_, “to knock into a
cocked hat,” see VOIE; _to kill_.
DÉMOLISSEUR, _m._ (literary), _sharp and violent critic_.
DÉMORFILAGE (card-sharpers’), _setting right again cards which have
been marked_.
DÉMORFILER, _action of doing_ démorfilage (which see); also _to have
one’s wounds cured_.
DÉMORGANER (thieves’), _to give in to one’s arguments_.
DÉMURGER (thieves’), _to leave a place_; _to be set at liberty_.
DENAILLE, _m._ (thieves’), Saint ----, _Saint-Denis, an arrondissement
of Paris_.
DÉNICHEUR, _m._ (popular), de fauvettes, _one fond of women_,
“mutton-monger.”
DENT, _f._ (popular), avoir de la ----, _to have preserved one’s good
looks_; _to be still young_. Mal de dents, _love_. N’avoir plus mal aux
dents, _to be dead_.
DENTELLE, _f._ (thieves’), _bank notes_, “rags, flimsies, screenes, or
long-tailed ones.”
DÉPARLER (popular), _to cease talking_; _to talk nonsense_.
DÉPARTEMENT, _m._ (popular), du bas rein, _breech_. See VASISTAS. A
play on the word Rhin.
DÉPENDEUR, _m._ (popular), d’andouilles. See ANDOUILLES.
DÉPENSER (popular), sa salive, _to talk_, or “to jaw away.”
DÉPIAUTER, DÉPIOTER (popular), _to skin_. Se ----, _to break one’s
skin_; _to undress_, “to peel.”
DÉPLANQUER (thieves’), _to remove stolen property out of hiding-place_;
---- son faux centre, _to be convicted under an alias_.
DÉPLUMER (popular), se ----, _to get bald_. Avoir le coco déplumé,
_to be bald_, “to have a bladder of lard,” or “to be stag-faced.” See
N’AVOIR PLUS.
DÉPONER (popular), _to ease oneself_, “to go to the chapel of ease.”
See MOUSCAILLER.
DÉPORTER (popular), _to discharge from a situation_, “to give the sack.”
DÉPÔT, _m._ (popular), _dépôt de la Préfecture de Police_. Caisse des
dépôts et consignations, _place of ease_, or “crapping ken.”
DÉPOTOIR, _m._ (thieves’), _confessional_; (popular) _chamber pot_, or
“jerry;” _strong box_, or “peter;” _house of ill-fame_, or “nanny-shop.”
DÉPUCELEUR, _m._ (popular), de nourrices, or de femmes enceintes;
_ridiculous Lovelace_.
DÉPUTÉ, _m._ (theatrical), _free ticket_.