DÉRAGER (popular), _to get pacified_. Generally used in the negative.
Il n’a pas encore déragé, _he is yet in a rage_.
DÉRAILLÉ, _m._ (familiar), _one who has lost caste_.
DÉRAILLER (familiar), _to talk nonsense, cock-and-bull-story fashion_.
DÉRALINGUER (sailors’), _to die_. Properly _to detach from the bolt
rope_. See PIPE.
DÉRONDINER (popular), _to pay_, “to shell out.” Se ----, _to spend or
give away one’s money_. Ronds, _halfpence_.
DÉROULER (thieves’), se ----, _to spend a certain time, not specified,
in prison_, “to do time.”
DERRIÈRE, _m._ (popular), roue de ----, _five-franc piece_. Se lever le
---- le premier, _to get up in a bad humour_. Used as a preposition:
(Printers’) Derrière le poêle chez Cosson, _words used to evade
replying to an inquiry_.
DÉSARGENTÉ, _adj._ (thieves’), _in want of money_.
Quand on est désargenté on se la brosse et l’on ne va pas
se taper un souper à l’œil.--=VIDOCQ.=
DÉSARGOTÉ, _adj._ (thieves’), être ----, _to be shrewd_, _to be a_
“file,” to be “fly,” _or a_ “leary bloke.”
DÉSARGOTER (thieves’), _to employ cunning_.
DÉSARRER (thieves’), _to flee, to_ “guy.” or “to make beef.” See
PATATROT.
DÉSATILLER (thieves’), _to castrate_. Horse-trainers term the operation
“adding one to the list.”
D’ESBROUFFE, or D’ESBROUF (thieves’), _by force_. Pesciller ----, _to
take by force_. Estourbir ----, _to knock over the head_.
Un grand messière franc ...
Le filant sur l’estrade
D’esbrouf je l’estourbis.
=VIDOCQ.=
DESCENDRE (popular), quelqu’un, _to shoot one_, “to pot;” _to throw
down_; ---- le crayon sur la colonne, _to thrash_, see VOIE; ---- la
garde, _to die_, see PIPE. (Theatrical) Descendre, _to approach the
footlights_. (Sporting) Un cheval qui descend, _horse against which the
odds are decreasing_.
DÉSENBONNETDECOTONNER, _to give elegance to_. “De,” and “en bonnet de
coton,” _a nightcap_.
DÉSENFLAQUER (popular), se ----, _to amuse oneself_. (Thieves’) Se
----, _to get out of prison_; _to get out of trouble_.
DÉSENFRUSQUINER (popular), se ----, _to undress_.
DÉSENTIFLAGE, _m._ (thieves’), _separation_; _divorce_.
DÉSENTIFLER (thieves’), _to separate_; _to divorce_.
DESFOUQUE. See DESFOUX.
DESFOUX, _f._ (popular), _silk cap sported by women’s bullies_. From
the maker’s name.
DESGENAIS, _a character of a comedy by Th. Barrière_. Faire son ---- en
chambre, _to play the moralist_.
DESGRIEUX, _associate of prostitutes and swindlers_. A character from
_Manon Lescaut_, by l’Abbé Prévost.
DÉSHABILLAGE, _m._ (literary), _ill-natured criticism_.
Si l’on veut passer un joli quart d’heure on n’a qu’à faire
jaser un peintre connu sur un autre peintre également
connu. Quel déshabillage! mes amis.
DÉSHABILLER (popular), _to thrash_, “to wallop.” See VOIE.
DÉSOLER (thieves’), _to throw_.
DÉSOSSE, _f._ (popular), _distress_. Jouer la ----, _to be ruined_,
“cracked up,” “gone to smash.”
DÉSOSSÉ, _m._ (popular), _very thin man_; _ruined man_, “brosier.”
DÉSOSSER (popular), quelqu’un, _to pommel one_. See VOIE.
DESSALÉE, _f._ (popular), _prostitute_, or “bed-fagot.” See GADOUE.
DESSALER (thieves’), _to drown_. (Popular) Se ----, _to drink a morning
glass of white wine_; _to drink_, “to moisten one’s chaffer.”
DESSOUS, _m._ (theatrical), tomber dans le troisième, or trente-sixième
----, _the expression is used to denote that a play has been a complete
fiasco_. (Familiar) Tomber dans le troisième ----, _to fall into utter
discredit_. (Thieves’) Dessous, _man loved for_ “love,” _not for
money_; _a bully_.
DESSUS, _m._ (thieves’), _man who keeps a woman_, the dessous being the
said woman’s lover.
DESTUC (thieves’), être d’----, _to be partners in a robbery_; _to be
in a_ “push.” “I’m in this push,” is the notice given by an English
thief to another that he means to “stand in.”
DÉTACHÉ, _adj._ (sporting), cheval ----, _horse which keeps the lead_.
DÉTACHER (thieves’), le bouchon, _to steal a watch_, “to nick a jerry,”
“to twist a thimble,” or “to get a red toy.”
DÉTAFFER (thieves’), _to grow bold_. De and taf, _fear_.
DÉTAILLER (theatrical), le couplet, _to sing with appropriate
expression the different parts of a song_; ---- un rôle, _to bring out
all the best points of a part_.
DÉTAROQUER (thieves’), _to obliterate the marking of linen_.
DÉTEINDRE (popular), _to die_, “to kick the bucket,” or “to snuff it.”
See PIPE.
DÉTELER (popular), _to renounce the pleasures of love_.
DÉTOCE, or DÉTOSSE, _f._ (thieves’), _ill-luck_; _poverty_.
DÉTOURNE, _f._ (thieves’), vol à la ----, _robbery in a shop, or from
the shop-window, generally committed by two confederates, the one
engrossing the shopkeeper’s attention while the other takes possession
of the property_.
DÉTOURNEUR, _m._, DÉTOURNEUSE, _f._, _thief who operates after the
manner described under the heading of_ “VOL À LA DÉTOURNE” (which see).
DÉTRAQUER (popular), se ---- le trognon, _to become crazy_, _to become_
“balmy.”
DETTE (thieves’), payer une ----, _to be in prison_, to “do time.”
DEUIL, _m._ (popular), demi ----, _coffee without brandy_. Grand ----,
_with brandy_. (Familiar) Il y a du ----, _things are going on badly_.
Porter le ---- de sa blanchisseuse, _to have dirty linen_.
DEUX (popular), les ---- sœurs, _the breech_, or “cheeks.” See
VASISTAS. (Thieves’) Partir pour les ----, _to set out for the convict
settlement_, “to lump the lighter.”
DÉVALIDÉ, _adj._ (familiar), synonymous of invalidé, _unreturned
candidate for parliament_.
DEVANT, _m._ (popular), de gilet, _woman’s breasts_, “Charlies.”
DÉVEINARD, _m._ (popular), _unlucky_.
Un de ces ouvriers déveinards, un de ces inventeurs en
chambre, qui ont compté sur le coup de fortune du nouvel
an.--=RICHEPIN=, _Le Pavé_.
DÉVEINE, _f._ (popular), _constant ill-luck_.
DÉVIDAGE, _m._ (thieves’), _long speech, or yarn_; _walk in prison
yard_; ---- à l’estorgue, _lie_, “gag;” _accusation_. Faire des
dévidages, _to make revelations_.
DÉVIDER (thieves’), _to talk_, “to patter;” ---- à l’estorgue, _to
lie_; ---- le jars, _to speak the cant of thieves_, “to patter flash;”
---- une retentissante, _to break a bell_; (popular) ---- son peloton,
_to talk a great deal_; _to make a confession_.
DÉVIDEUR, _m._, DÉVIDEUSE, _f._ (thieves’), _chatterer_, “clack-box.”
DÉVIERGER (popular), _to seduce a maiden_.
DÉVIRER (thieves’ and cads’), _to turn round_.
DÉVISSER (popular), le coco, _to strangle_; ---- le trognon à
quelqu’un, _to wring a person’s neck_. Se ----, _to go away_. Se ----
la pétronille, _to break one’s head_.
DÉVISSEUR, _m._ (popular), _slanderer_, _backbiter_.
DEVOIR (gay girls’), une dette, _to have promised a rendez-vous_.
DÉVOYÉ, _adj._ (thieves’), _acquitted_.
DIABLE, _m._ (thieves’), _instigator in the employ of the police_.
DIAMANT, _m._ (theatrical), _voice of a fine quality_, “like a bell;”
(popular) _paving stone_.
DIBOLATA, DIBUNI (Breton cant), _to fight_, _to thrash_.
DICTIONNAIRE VERDIER, _m._ (printers’), _imaginary dictionary of which
the name is shouted loud whenever one speaks or spells incorrectly_.
DIEU (popular), le ---- terme, _rent day_. Il n’y a pas de bon ----,
see BON.
DIFFICULTÉ, _f._ (sporting), être en ----, _is said of a horse which
can just keep the start obtained at the cost of the greatest efforts_.
DIFOARA (Breton cant), _to pay_.
DIG-DIG, or DIGUE-DIGUE, _m._ (thieves’), _epileptic fit_. Batteur de
----, _vagabond who pretends to be seized with a fit_.
DIGONNEUR, _m._ (popular), _ill-tempered man_, _a_ “shirty” _one_.
DIJONNIER (popular), _mustard-pot_. The best mustard is manufactured at
Dijon.
DILIGENCE, _f._ (popular), de Rome, _tongue_, or “velvet.”
DIMANCHE (popular), or ---- après la grand’ messe, _never, at Doomsday,
or when the devil is blind_.
DINDONNER (popular), _to deceive_; _to impose upon_, “to bamboozle.”
From dindon, _a dupe_, _a fool_.
DINDORNIER, _m._ (thieves’), _hospital attendant_.
DÎNER (popular), en ville, _to dine off a small roll in the street_. A
philosophical way of putting it.
DINGUER (theatrical), _to be out of the perpendicular_; (popular) _to
walk_, _to lounge_. Envoyer ----, _to send to the deuce_.
DISCUSSION, _f._ (popular), avoir une ---- avec le pavé, _to fall
flat_, “to come a cropper.”
DISQUE, _m._ (popular), _breech_, or “tochas,” see VASISTAS; also
_coin_.
DISTINGUÉ, _m._ (popular), _glass of beer_.
DIX-HUIT (popular), _shoe made up of different parts of old ones_. A
play on the words “deux fois neuf,” _twice new_, or _eighteen_.
DIXIÈME, _m._ (military), passer au ---- régiment, _to die_. See PIPE.
A play on the word “décimer,” _to kill one in ten_.
DOCHE, _f._ (thieves’), _mother_. Boîte à ----, _coffin_.
DOIGT, _m._ (familiar), se fourrer le ---- dans l’œil, or le ---- dans
l’œil jusqu’au coude, _to be grossly mistaken_. Etre de la société
du ---- dans l’œil, _to be one of those who form ambitious hopes not
likely to be realized_. Name given after the Commune of 1871 to a
group of Communists in exile who had separated from the rest, and had
divided among themselves all the future official posts of their future
government--a case of selling chickens, &c., with a vengeance.
DOMANGE (popular), marmite à ----, _waggon which carries away the
contents of cesspools_. Marmiton de ----, _scavenger employed at
emptying the cesspools_. Travailler pour M. ----, _to eat_. See
MASTIQUER. M. Domange is the name of a contractor who has, or had,
charge of the cleaning of all Paris cesspools.
DOME, _m._ (thieves’), Saint ----, or saindomme, _tobacco_, or “fogus.”
DOMINER (theatrical), _is said of an actor standing behind another who
is nearer to the footlights_. It must be said, in explanation, that the
stage-floor has an incline from the back to the front of the stage.
DOMINO-CULOTTE, _m._, _the last domino in a player’s hand_.
DOMINOS, _m. pl._ (thieves’), jeu de ----, _teeth_. Avoir le jeu
complet de ----, _to possess one’s set of teeth complete_. Jouer des
----, _to eat_. See MASTIQUER.
Comme tu joues des dominos (des dents), à te voir, on
croirait que tu morfiles (mords) dans de la crignole
(viande).--=VIDOCQ.=
DONNE, _f._ (gambling cheats’), la ----, _the act of skilfully
shuffling a pack so as to leave underneath certain cards which the
cheat reserves for himself._
DONNER (thieves’), _to look_; _to see_, “to pipe;” _to peach_, or “to
blow the gaff;” ---- à la Bourbonnaise, _to scowl at one_; ---- du
chasse à la rousse, _to be on the look-out_, “to nark,” or “to nose;”
---- du flan, or de la galette, _to play fairly_; ---- sur le buffeton,
_to read an indictment_; ---- un pont à faucher, _to lay a trap_;
_to prepare a snare for one_; _to deceive one_, “to kid;” ---- une
affaire, _to give the information required for the perpetration of a
robbery_. (Popular) Donner de la salade, _to give one something more
than a good shaking_, see VOIE; ---- du cambouis à quelqu’un, _to make
fun of one_; _to play a trick_; ---- du dix-huit, see DONNER CINQ ET
QUATRE; ---- du vague, _to seek for one’s living_; ---- la savate, _to
give a box on the ear_, or “buck-horse;” ---- son bout, or son bout de
ficelle, _to dismiss_; _to give the_ “sack;” (ironical) ---- des noms
d’oiseaux, _to be very loving_; ---- cinq et quatre, _to slap one with
the palm, then with the back of the hand_; ---- un coup de poing dont
on ne voit que la fumée, _to give a terrific blow in the face_, “a
thumper.” La ----, _to sing_, “to lip.” Se ---- de l’air, _to go out_.
Se la ----, _to be off_; _to run away_, “to slope,” see PATATROT; also
_to fight_, “to pitch into one another.” (Familiar) Donner la migraine
à une tête de bois, _to be an insufferable bore_; ---- son dernier bon
à tirer, _to die_; ---- de la grosse caisse, _to puff up a book or
trade article_; ---- du balai, _to dismiss_; (Saint-Cyr cadets’) ----
du vent, _to bully_.
DONNEUR, _m._, de bonjour. See BONJOUR. (Thieves’) Donneur d’affaires,
_malefactor of an inventive genius who suggests to others plans of
robberies or_ “plants.”
DONNEZ-LA! (thieves’), _look out!_ “shoe leather!” Synonymous of
“chou!” “acresto!” “du pet!”
DORANCHER (thieves’), _to gild_.
DORMIR (popular), en chien de fusil, _to double oneself up, when
sleeping, into the shape of an S_; ---- en gendarme, _to sleep with one
eye open_; _to sleep a_ “fox’s sleep.”
DORNA (Breton), _to get drunk_.
DORNER (Breton), _drunkard_.
DORT DANS L’AUGE, _m._ (popular), _lazy individual_, “lazy bones,” or
“bummer.”
DORT-EN-CHIANT (popular), _extremely lazy man, with no energy whatever,
with no heart for work_, “a bummer.”
DOS, _m._ (general), _woman’s bully_, “Sunday man;” ---- d’azur, vert,
_same meaning_. For synonymous terms see POISSON. Scier le ---- à
quelqu’un, _to importune_; “to bore” _one_.
DOSE, _f._ (popular), _unpleasant thing_.
DOSSIÈRE, _f._ (thieves’), _prostitute_, “bunter,” see GADOUE; ---- de
satte, _arm-chair_.
DOUANIER, _m._ (popular), _glass of absinthe_. An allusion to the
uniform of custom-house officers, which, like absinthe, is green.
Termed also “un perroquet.”
DOUBLAGE, DOUBLÉ, _m._ (popular), _robbery_.
DOUBLE, _m._ (military), _sergeant-major_; (popular) ---- six, _negro_.
Also _the two upper front teeth_. (Thieves’) Gras ----, _sheet lead_,
or “flap.” Termed also “saucisson.”
DOUBLER (thieves’), _to steal_, “to claim,” or “to nick;” (familiar)
---- un cap, _to avoid passing before a creditor’s door_; _to be able
to settle a debt or pay a bill when it falls due_; ---- le cap du
terme, _to be able to pay one’s rent when it becomes due_, _to be able
to clear the dreaded reef of rent day_.
DOUBLEUR, DOUBLEUX, _m._, DOUBLEUSE, _f._ (thieves’), _thief_, “prig,”
see GRINCHE; ---- de sorgue, _night thief_.
DOUBLIN, _m._ (thieves’), _ten-centime piece_.
DOUBLURE, _f._ (theatrical), _actor who at a moment’s notice is able
to take the part of another_; (popular) ---- de la pièce, _breasts_,
“Charlies.”
DOUCE, _f._ (thieves’), _silk or satin stuff_, “squeeze.” (Popular) A
la ----, _gently_; _pretty well_. Comment qu’ça va aujourd’hui? mais, à
la ----, _how are you to-day? pretty bobbish_. La couler, or la passer
à la ----, _to live an easy life, devoid of cares_.
DOUCETTE, _f._ (thieves’), _a file_. An endearing term for that very
useful implement.
DOUCEUR, _f._ (thieves’), faire en ----, _to rob from the person
without any violence, with suavity, so to speak_. Le mettre en ----,
_to extort property by dint of wheedling_.
DOUILLARD, _m._ (thieves’ and popular), _wealthy man_, “rag-splawger,”
“rhinoceral,” _one_ “well-ballasted.”
DOUILLARDS, _m._ (thieves’ and popular), _hair_.
Viv’ la gaîté! J’ai pas d’chaussettes;
Mes rigadins font des risettes;
Mes tas d’douillards m’servent d’chapeau.
=RICHEPIN=, _Chanson des Gueux_.
DOUILLE, _f._ (thieves’ and popular), _money_, “pieces.” See QUIBUS.
Aboule la ----, “dub the pieces.”
DOUILLER (thieves’), _to pay_, “to dub;” ---- du carme, _to give
money_, “to dub pieces.”
DOUILLES, _f._ (thieves’), _hair_, or “thatch;” ---- savonnées, _white
hair_. Termed also “tifs, douillards, plumes.”
DOUILLET, _m._, DOUILLETTE, _f._ (thieves’), _hair_, “thatch;” _mane_.
DOUILLURE, _f._ (thieves’), _head of hair_.
DOULEUR, _f._ (popular), avaler or étrangler la ----, _to drink a glass
of brandy_, the great comforter it would appear.
DOULOUREUSE, _f._ (popular), _reckoning at an eating-house_. The term
is expressive of one’s sorrow when comes the dreaded “quart d’heure de
Rabelais.”
DOUSSE, _f._ (thieves’), _fever_.
DOUSSIN, _m._ (thieves’), _lead_, “bluey.”
DOUSSINER (thieves’), _to line with lead_.
DOUX, _m._ (popular), du ----, _some sweet liquor such as Chartreuse,
Curaçao_.
DOVERGN (Breton), _horse_.
DRAGÉE, _f._ (military), _bullet_, “plum.” Dragée, properly
_sweetmeat_. Gober une ----, _to receive a bullet_.
DRAGONS. See ALLER VOIR DÉFILER.
DRAGUE, _f. and m._ (popular), une ----, _table, implements or plant
of a conjuror, of a mountebank_. (Thieves’) Un ----, _surgeon_, “nim
gimmer.”
DRAGUEUR, _m._ (popular), _quack_, “crocus;” _conjurer_; _mountebank_.
DRAP (popular), manger du ----, _to play at billiards_, _to play_
“spoof.”
DRAPEAU, _m._ (freemasons’), _serviette_. Grand ----, _table-cloth_.
DRAPEAUX, _m._ (popular), _swaddling clothes_.
DREGNEU, parler en ----, _is to combine this word with other words_.
“Je suis pris,” becomes “Je dregue suidriguis pridriguis.”
DRILLE, or DRINGUE, _f._ (popular), _diarrhœa_, “jerry-go-nimble;”
(thieves’) _five-franc piece_.
DRIVE (sailors’), être en ----, _to be out on a spree_, or “on the
booze.”
DROGUE, _f._ (popular), _article of bad quality_, “Brummagem article.”
Mauvaise ----, _ill-natured man or woman_. Petite ----, _wicked girl_;
_disreputable girl_, “strumpet.”
DROGUER (popular), _to wait a long time_; (thieves’) _to ask for_. The
term seems to imply that asking for is a tedious process, and that it
is preferable to help oneself.
DROGUERIE, _f._ (thieves’), _a request_. That is, an unpleasant task.
DROGUEUR, _m._ (thieves’), de la haute, _expert thief or swindler_,
“gonnof.”
DROGUISTE, _m._ (thieves’), _swindler_; _sharper_, “shark.” Termed
also, in English slang, “hawk,” in opposition to the “pigeon” or
victim. See GRINCHE.
DROITIER, _m._ (familiar), _member of the right, or monarchist party in
parliament_. See CENTRIER.
DROMADAIRE, _m._ (popular), _prostitute_, or “mot.” Formerly _a veteran
of the Egypt campaign_.
DROUILLASSE, _f._ (popular), _diarrhœa_, “jerry-go-nimble.”
DUBUGE, _f._ (thieves’), _lady_, “burerk.”
DUC, _m._ (familiar), _large carriage which holds two people inside,
and has room for two servants in front and two behind_; ---- de guiche,
_turnkey_, “dubsman;” ---- de la panne, _needy man_; ---- d’en face
(ironical), an allusion to an insignificant man who is seeking to make
a show of undue importance or to give himself grand airs.
DUCE, _m._ (thieves’), _secret signal agreed upon among sharpers_.
DUCHÊNE (popular), passer à ----, _to get a tooth extracted_. An
allusion to the name of a famous dentist.
DUEL, _m._ (popular), des yeux qui se battent en ----, _squinting
eyes_, or “swivel eyes.”
DU GAS, _m._ (sailors’), _my lad_.
Va bien. On t’emplira, du gas,
Répond le capitaine.
J’y fournirai, t’y fourniras
Moi l’huile à ta lanterne,
Toi l’huil’ de bras.
=RICHEPIN=, _La Mer_.
DUMANET (familiar), _appellation given to a private soldier, answers
to the English_ “Thomas Atkins.” Dumanet is the name of one of the
characters of a play.
DUN, parler en ----, _art of disguising words by means of the syllable_
“dun.” The letter _n_ is substituted for the first letter of the word
when it is a consonant, added when a vowel. The last syllable is
followed by _du_, which acts as a prefix to the first. Thus “maison”
becomes “naisondumai,” “Paris” becomes “Narisdupa.”
DUNIK (Breton), _mass_.
DUNON, parler en ----, _process similar to the one called_ “parler en
dun” (which see).
DUR, _adj. and m._ (popular), à la détente, or à la desserre, _stingy,
close-fisted_; _man who is slow in paying his debts_. Du ----,
_spirits_. (Printers’) Etre dans son ----, _to be working hard_.
DURAILLE, _f._ (thieves’), _stone_; _precious stone_, “spark.”
DURE, _f._ (thieves’), _stone_; _the central prison_; ---- à
briquemon, à rifle, _flint_. Voler quelqu’un à la ----, _to rob a man
with violence_, “to jump a cove.”
DURÊME, _m._ (thieves’), _cheese_.
DURILLON, _m._ (popular), _hump_.
DURIN, _m._ (thieves’), _iron_.
DURINER (thieves’), _to tip with iron_.
DUSSE. See DUCE.
DU VENT (popular), or de la mousse, de l’anis, des dattes, des navets,
des nèfles, du flan, _derisive expressions of refusal_; might be
rendered by, “you be blowed,” “don’t you wish you may get it,” “you’ll
get it in a hurry,” &c.
DYNAMITARD, _m._ (familiar), _dynamiter_, one who aims at regenerating
society by the free use of dynamite.
E
EAU, _f._ (popular), de moule, _a mixture of a little absinthe and a
great deal of water_. Marchand d’---- chaude, or d’---- de javelle,
_landlord of a wine-shop_.
EAU D’AF, EAU D’AFFE, _f._ (popular and thieves’), _brandy_, or “French
cream,” from af, _life_.
As-tu bu l’eau d’af à c’matin? T’as l’air tout drôle,
est-ce que t’es malade, ma mère?--_Catéchisme Poissard._
EAUX, _f. pl._. (popular), être dans les ---- grasses, _to hold a high
official position_. Les ---- sont basses, _funds are low_, _funds are
at_ “low tide.”
EBASIR (thieves’), _to knock down_; _to murder_, “to cook one’s goose.”
EBATTRE (thieves’), s’---- dans la tigne, _to try and pick pockets in a
crowd_, “to fake a cly in the push.”
EBÉNO, _m._ (popular), for ébéniste, _French polisher_.
EBOURIFFANT, _adj._ (common), _excessive_, _astounding_. Vous êtes
ébouriffant, _you are_ “coming it rather too strong.”
ECAFOUILLER (popular), _to squash_.
ECAILLÉ, _m._ (popular), _prostitute’s bully_, or “Sunday man.”
Properly _one with scales like those of a fish_. An allusion to
maquereau. See POISSON.
ECARBOUILLER (popular), s’----, _to run away_, “to bunk.”
ECART, _m._ (gambling cheats’), _sleight of hand trick by which the
cheat conceals an ace under his wrist to use when convenient_.
ECARTER (familiar), du fusil, or de la dragée, _to spit involuntarily
when talking_.
ECHALAS, _m._ (popular), jus d’----, _wine_. (Thieves’) Echalas
d’omnicroche, _coachman of an omnibus_.
ECHALAS, _m. pl._ (popular), _thin legs_, “spindle-shanks.”
Joue des guibolles, prends tes échalas à ton cou.
--=X. MONTÉPIN.=
ECHAPPÉ, _m._ (popular), de Charenton, _crazy fellow_ (Charenton is the
Paris dépôt for lunatics); ---- d’Hérode, _unsophisticated man_, or
“greenhorn.”
ECHARPILLER (popular), se faire ----, _to get a terrible thrashing_,
“to get knocked into a cocked hat.” See VOIE.
ECHASSES, _f. pl._ (popular), _thin legs_, “spindle-shanks.”
ECHASSIER, _m._ (popular), _tall man with thin, long legs_, or
“spindle-shanks.”
ECHAUDÉ (popular), être ----, _to be overcharged_; _to be fleeced_, “to
be shaved.”
ECHAUDER (popular), _to charge more for an article than the real
price_, “to shave a customer.” Properly _to scald_. According to the
_Slang Dictionary_ (Chatto and Windus, 1885), when a London tradesman
sees an opportunity of doing this, he strokes his chin as a signal to
the assistant who is serving the customer.
ECHELLE, _f._ (popular), monter à l’----, _to ascend the scaffold_.
Faire monter quelqu’un à l’----, _to get one into a rage by teazing or
badgering him_, “to rile one.”
ECHINER (familiar), _to criticise sharply_, _to run down_. Properly _to
thrash to within an inch of one’s life_.
ECHINEUR, _m._ (familiar), _sharp critic_.
ECHO, _m._ (popular), _an encore at a place of entertainment_.
ECHOPPE, _f._ (popular), _workshop_.
ECHOS, _m. pl._ (journalists’), _reports on topics of the day_.
ECHOTER, _to write_ “échos.” See that word.
ECHOTIER, _m._ (familiar), _writer of_ “échos.” See that word.
Indépendamment de la loge de Fauchery, il y a celle de la
rédaction, de la direction et de l’administration, une
baignoire pour son soiriste, une autre pour son échotier,
quatre fauteuils pour ses reporters.--=P. MAHALIN.=
ECLAIRAGE, _m._ (general), _money laid down on a gaming table as
stakes_.
ECLAIRER (general), _to pay_, “to dub;” _to exhibit money_;
(gamesters’) ---- le tapis, le velours, _to stake_; (prostitutes’) _to
look about in quest of a client_.
ECLAIREUR, _m._ (gamesters’), _confederate of card-sharpers_.
ECLAIREURS, _m. pl._ (popular), _large protruding breasts_. Properly
_scouts_.
ECLUSER (popular), _to void urine_, “to lag.”
ECLUSES, _f. pl._ (popular), lâcher les ----, _to weep_, “to nap a
bib;” _to void urine_, “to lag.”
ECOLE PRÉPARATOIRE (thieves’), _prison_, “jug.” A kind of compulsory
“Buz-napper’s Academy,” or school in which young thieves are trained.
ECOPAGE, _m._ (popular), _blow_, “prop,” “bang,” or “wipe;”
_collision_; _scolding_, “bully-ragging;” _the art of calling on one
just at dinner time, so as to get an invitation_.
ECOPER (popular), _to drink_. See RINCER. Properly _to bale a boat_.
Ecoper, _to receive a thrashing_, “to get a walloping.”
ECOPEUR, _m._ (popular), _artful man who manages to get some small
advantages out of people without appearing to ask for them_.
ECORNAGE, _m._ (thieves’), vol à l’----, _mode of robbery which
consists in cutting out a small portion of a pane in a shop-window, and
drawing out articles through the aperture by means of a rod provided
with a hook at one of its extremities_.
ECORNÉ, _m._ (thieves’), _prisoner under examination_, or “cross kid;”
_prisoner charged with an offence_, “in trouble.”
ECORNER (popular), _to slander_; _to abuse_, “to bully rag; (thieves’),
_to break into_; ---- une boutanche, un boucard, _to break into a
shop_, “to crack a swag.”
J’aimerais mieux faire suer le chêne sur le grand trimar,
que d’écorner les boucards.--=VIDOCQ.=
ECORNEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _public prosecutor_.
ECORNIFLER (thieves’), à la passe, _to shoot down_.
ECOSSAIS (popular), en ----, _without breeches_.
ECOSSEUR, _m._, _secretary_; _one whose functions are to peruse
letters_. Properly _sheller_. The Préfecture de Police employs
twelve “écosseurs,” whose duty it is to open the daily masses of
correspondence conveying real or supposed clues to crimes committed.
(_Globe Newspaper_, 1886.)
ECOUTE, _f. and verb_ (thieves’), _ear_, “wattle,” or “hearing cheat.”
(Popular) Je t’----, je vous ----, _just so!_ _I should think so!_
ECOUTE S’IL PLEUT! (popular), _be quiet!_ _hold your_ “row!”
ECOUTILLES, _f. pl._ (sailors’), _ears_. Ouvrir ses ----, _to listen_.
Properly _hatchway_.
Y es-tu, ma petite pouliotte, y es-tu? As-tu bien ouvert
tes écoutilles? Te rappelles-tu tout ça et encore
ça?--=RICHEPIN=, _La Glu_.
ECRACHE, _f._ (thieves’), _passport_; ---- tarte, or à l’estorgue,
_forged passport_.
ECRACHER (thieves’), _to exhibit one’s passport_.
ECRASEMENT, _m._ (thieves’), _crowd_, “push,” or “scuff.”
ECRASER (popular), un grain, _to have a glass of wine at a wine-shop_;
---- une bouteille, _to drink a bottle of wine_.
Je viens voir à présent si n’y aurait pas moyen
d’écraser un grain pendant qu’i sont tous en train de
folichonner.--=TRUBLOT.=
ECREVISSE, _f._ (popular), de boulanger, _hypocrite_. Avoir une ----
dans la tourte, or dans le vol-au-vent, _to be crazy_, “to have
apartments to let.” (Cavalry) Ecrevisse de rempart, _foot soldier_, or
“beetle-crusher.” (Theatrical) Quatorzième ----, _female supernumerary_.
ECRIRE (popular), à un juif, _to ease oneself_, “to go to the crapping
ken.” See MOUSCAILLER.
ECRIVASSER (literary), _to write in a desultory manner_.
ECUELLE, _f._ (popular), _plate_.
ECUME, _f._ (thieves’), de terre, _tin_. Properly _foam_.
ECUMOIRE, _f._ (familiar), _pock-marked face_, “cribbage face.”
Properly _skimmer_.
ECURER (popular), son chaudron, _to go to confession_. Literally _to
scour one’s stewpan_.
ECUREUIL, _m._ (popular), _man or boy whose functions consist in
propelling the wheels of engineers or turners_.
EDREDON, _m._ (popular), de trois pieds, _truss of straw_.
(Prostitutes’) Faire l’----, _to find a rich foreigner for a client_.
Vous me demanderez peut-être ce que signifie, faire
l’édredon.... L’eider est un oiseau exotique au duvet
précieux.... Avec ce duvet on se fabrique des couches
chaudes et moelleuses.... Les étrangers de distinction,
qu’ils viennent du Nord ou du Midi, sont, eux aussi, des
oiseaux dont les plumes laissées entre des mains adroites
et caressantes n’ont pas moins de valeur que le duvet de
l’eider.--=P. MAHALIN.=
EF, _m._ (prostitutes’), abbreviation of effet. Faire de l’----, _to
show oneself to advantage_.
EFFACER (popular), _to eat or drink_, see MASTIQUER; ---- un plat, _to
polish off the contents of a dish_; ---- une bouteille, _to drink off a
bottle of liquor_.
EFFAROUCHER (thieves’), _to steal_, “to ease,” or “to claim.” See
GRINCHIR.
EFFET (theatrical), _by-play, or those parts of a play which are
intended to produce an impression on the audience_. Avoir un ----,
_to have to say or do something which will make an impression on the
spectators_. Couper un ----, _to spoil a fellow-actor’s_ “effet” _by
distracting the attention of the public from him to oneself_.
EFFETS, _m. pl._ (familiar), faire des ---- de biceps, _to show off
one’s strength_. Faire des ---- de poche, _to make a show of possessing
much money_; _to pay_. Faire des ---- de manchette, _to exhibit one’s
cuffs in an affected manner by a movement of the arm_.
EFFONDRER QUELQU’UN (popular), _to beat one to a jelly_, “to knock one
into a cocked hat.” See VOIE.
EGAILLER LES BRÈMES (gamesters’), _to spread cards out_.
EGARD, _m._ (thieves’), faire l’----, _to keep the proceeds of a theft
to oneself_.
EGAYER (theatrical), _to hiss_, “to give the big bird;” ---- l’ours,
_to hiss a play_. Se faire ----, _to get hissed_, “to get the big bird.”
EGLISIER, _m._ (popular), _bigot_, or “prayer monger.”
EGNAFFER (popular), _to astound_.
EGNOLANT (popular), _astounding_.
EGNOLER (popular), _to astound_.
EGOUT, _m._ (popular), prima donna d’----, _female singer at low
music-halls_, or “penny gaffs.”
EGRAFFIGNER (popular), _to scratch_.
EGRAILLER (popular), _to take_.
EGRATIGNÉE. See DÉCHIRÉE.
EGRENÉ, _m._ (journalists’), _a kind of newspaper fag_.
EGRUGEOIR, _m._ (thieves’), _pulpit_, “hum-box.”
EGRUGER (thieves’), _to plunder_, _to rifle_.
EGYPTIEN, _m._ (theatrical), _bad actor_, _inferior sort of_ “cackling
cove.”
ELBEUF, _m._ (familiar), _coat_, “tog.”
ELECTEUR, _m._ (commercial travellers’), _client_.
ELÉMENTS, _m. pl._ (card-sharpers’), _money_, or “pieces.” See QUIBUS.
ELÈVE, _m._ (thieves’ and cads’), du Château, _prisoner_; _old
offender_.
ELÈVE-MARTYR, _m._ (cavalry), _one who is training to be a corporal_,
and who in consequence has to go through a very painful ordeal,
considering that French non-commissioned officers have the iron hand
without the velvet glove.
ELIXIR, _m._ (popular), de hussard, _brandy_. See TORD-BOYAUX.
ELTRISA (Breton), _to seek for one’s livelihood_.
ELTRIZ (Breton), _bread_.
EMANCIPER (familiar), s’----, _to take undue familiarities with women_,
“to fiddle.”
EMBALLER (thieves’ and popular), _to apprehend_, “to smug.” See PIPER.
S’----, _to get excited_. Properly _is said of a horse that runs away_.
EMBALLES, _f. pl._ (prostitutes’), _fussy_, _showing off_. Faire des
----, _to make a fuss_.
EMBALLEUR (thieves’), _police-officer_, “copper,” or “reeler.” See
POT-À-TABAC. Properly _packer_. Emballeur de refroidis, _undertaker’s
man_.
EMBALUCHONNER (popular), _to make up a parcel_; _to wrap up_.
EMBANDER (thieves’), _to take by force_.
EMBARDER (popular), _to wander from one’s subject_; _to prevaricate_;
_to make a mistake_; _to enter_. J’ai embardé dans la carrée, _I
entered the room_.
EMBARRAS, _m._ (thieves’), _bed sheet_. (Popular) Mettre une fille dans
l’----, _to seduce a girl, with the natural consequences_.
EMBAUMÉ, _m._ (popular), vieil ----, _old fool_; _old curmudgeon_,
“doddering old sheep’s head.”
EMBERLIFICOTEUR, _m._ (popular), _artful man, or an expert at
wheedling_, “sly blade.”
EMBISTROUILLER (popular), _to embarrass_; _to perplex_, “to flummux.”
EMBLÈME, _m._ (thieves’), _deceit_; _falsehood_, or “gag.”
EMBLÉMER (thieves’), _to deceive_, “to stick.”
EMBLÈMES, _m. pl._ (popular), des ----, _expression of disbelief_;
might be rendered by “all my eye!” See NÈFLES.
EMBOÎTER (theatrical), _to abuse_.
EMBOSSER (sailors’), s’----, _to place oneself_. Properly _to bring the
broadside to bear_.
EMBOUCANER (popular), _to stink_. Termed also “casser, plomber,
chelinguer, trouilloter.” S’----, _to feel dull, out of sorts_, “to
have the blue devils.”
EMBROUILLARDER (popular), s’----, _is said of a person in that state
of incipient intoxication that if he took more drink the effects would
become evident_. See SCULPTER.
EMBROUSSAILLÉS, _adj._ (familiar), cheveux ----, _matted hair_.
EMBUSQUÉ, _adj._ (military), _soldier who by reason of certain
functions is excused from military duties_.
EMÉCHÉ, _adj._ (familiar), _slightly intoxicated_, or “elevated.” See
POMPETTE.
EMÉCHER (familiar), s’----, _to be in a fair way of getting tipsy_. See
SCULPTER.
EMÉRILLONNER (popular), s’----, _to become quite cheerful_, or “cock a
hoop,” _through repeated potations_.
EMIGRÉ, _m._ (popular), de Gomorrhe, _Sodomite_.
EMMAILLOTER (thieves’), _to dupe_, “to best;” ---- un môme, _to prepare
a theft or other crime_. Synonymous of “engraisser un poupart.”
EMMAILLOTEUR, _m._ (popular), _tailor_, “snip,” “steel-bar driver,”
“cabbage contractor.”
EMMANCHÉ, _m._ (popular), _slow, clumsy fellow_, “stick in the mud.”
EMMARGOUILLIS, _m._ (popular), _obscene talk_, or “blue talk.”
EMMASTOQUER (popular), s’----, _to live well_; _to eat to excess_, “to
stodge.”
EMMERDEMENT, _m._ (familiar and popular), a coarse word; _great
annoyance_; _trouble_.
EMMERDER (general), a coarse word; _to annoy_; _to bore_. Also
_extremely forcible expression of contempt_. Properly _to cover with
excrement_. The English have the word “to immerd,” _to cover with dung_.
J’emmerde la cour, je respecte messieurs les jurés.
--=V. HUGO.=
EMMIELLER, EMMOUTARDER (popular), _euphemism for_ EMMERDER (which see).
EMMILLIARDER (popular), s’----, or s’emmillionner, _to become
prodigiously rich_.
EMOS, _f._ (popular), abbreviation of émotion.
EMOUVER (popular), s’----, _to shift noisily about_; _to hurry_, or “to
look alive.”
EMPAFFER (popular), _to intoxicate_. From paf, _drunk_. See SCULPTER.
EMPAFFES, _f. pl._ (thieves’), _bed-clothes_.
EMPAILLÉ, _m._ (popular), _clumsy man_; _slow man, lacking energy_,
“stick in the mud.”
EMPALER (popular), _to deceive one by false representations_, “to
bamboozle.”
EMPAOUTER (popular), _to annoy_; _to bore_, “to spur.”
EMPAUMÉ, _adj._ (popular), c’est ----, _it’s done_.
EMPAUMER (popular and thieves’), _to apprehend_, “to smug.” See PIPER.
EMPAVE, _f._ (thieves’), _crossway_.
EMPÊCHEUR (familiar), de danser en rond, _dismal man, who plays the dog
in the manger_, “mar-joy.”
EMPEREUR, _m._ (popular), _worn-out old shoe_.
EMPIERGEONNER (popular), s’----, _to get entangled_.
Margot dans sa cotte et ses bas
S’empiergeonna là-bas, là-bas.
=RICHEPIN=, _Chanson des Gueux_.
EMPIFFRAGE, _m._, EMPIFFRERIE, _f._ (popular), _gluttony_, “stodging.”
EMPILAGE, _m._, or EMPIL (popular), _cheating_.
EMPILER (popular), _to cheat at a game_.
EMPIOLER (thieves’), _to lock up_, “to give the clinch.”
EMPLANQUER (thieves’), _to come up_; _to turn up_, “to crop up.”
EMPLÂTRE, _m._ (card-sharpers’), de Thapsia, _shirt front and collar_.
(Popular) Faire un ----, _to arrange one’s cards ready for playing_.
(Thieves’) Emplâtre, _wax imprint taken for housebreaking purposes_.
EMPLÂTRER (popular), _to thrash_, “to wallop.” Si tu crânes, je vais
t’emplâtrer, _none of your cheek, else I’ll give you a beating_. See
VOIE. S’----, _to encumber oneself_.
EMPLOYÉ, _adj._ (military), dans les eaux grasses, _clerk of the
victualling department_, “mucker.”
EMPLÛCHER (thieves’), _to pillage_.
EMPOIGNADE, _f._ (popular), _dispute_, “row.”
EMPOIGNER (literary), _to criticise vigorously_; (theatrical) _to
hiss_, “to give the big bird.”
EMPOISONNEUR, _m._ (popular), _the landlord of wine-shop_. Termed also
“mastroquet, troquet, bistrot.”
EMPOIVRER (popular), s’----, _to get drunk_, “to get screwed.” See
SCULPTER.
EMPORTER (thieves’), _to swindle_, “to stick;” (popular) ---- le
chat, _to meddle with what does not concern one, and to get abused
or thrashed for one’s pains_. To act as Monsieur Robert in Molière’s
_Le Médecin malgré Lui_, when he upbraids Sganarelle for beating his
spouse, and in return gets thrashed by both husband and wife.
EMPORTEUR, _m._, _swindler who gets into conversation with a stranger,
gains his confidence, and takes him to a café where two confederates_,
“le bachotteur” _and_ “la bête,” _await him_ (see BACHOTTEUR); ---- à
la côtelette, _card-sharper who operates at restaurants_.
EMPOSEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _Sodomite_.
EMPOTÉ, _m._ (familiar), _slow, clumsy man_, “stick in the mud.”
EMPOUSTEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _swindler who sells spurious goods to
tradesmen under false pretences_.
EMPRUNTER (popular), un pain sur la fournée, _to beget a child before
marriage_; ---- un qui vaut dix, _to conceal one’s baldness by brushing
the hair forward_.
EMU, _adj._ (popular), _slightly intoxicated_, “elevated.” See POMPETTE.
EN (popular), avoir plein ses bottes, _to be tired, sick of a person or
thing_.
ENBOHÉMER (familiar), s’----, _to get into low society_.
ENBONNETDECOTONNER, s’----, _to become commonplace in manner or way of
thinking_.
ENCAISSER (popular), un soufflet, _to receive a smack in the face_, or
“buck-horse.”
ENCARRADE, _f._ (thieves’), _entrance_. Lourde d’----, _street door_.
ENCARRER (thieves’), _to enter_, “to prat.”
ENCASQUER (thieves’), to enter, or “to prat.”
Pour gonfler ses valades
Encasque dans un rade,
Sert des sigues à foison.
=VIDOCQ.=
ENCEINTRER (popular), _to make a woman big with child_. Abbreviation of
enceinturer, an expression used in the eighteenth century.
ENCHETIBER (thieves’), _to apprehend_, “to smug.” See PIPER.
ENCIBLE (thieves’), _together_. For ensemble.
ENCLOUÉ, _m._ (popular), _Sodomist_; _man without any energy_. A term
expressive of utter contempt, and an euphemism for a very coarse word.
The literal English rendering may be heard from the mouths of English
workmen at least a dozen times in a lapse of as many minutes. The
French expression might be rendered in less offensive language by “a
snide bally fool.”
Qu’est-ce qu’il a à m’emmoutarder cet encloué de singe?
cria Bec-Salé.--=ZOLA=, _L’Assommoir_.
ENCLOUER (popular), _to take some article to the pawnshop_, “to put in
lug,” “to blue,” or “to lumber.”
ENCOLIFLUCHETER (popular), s’----, _to feel out of sorts_; _to have
the_ “blue devils.”
ENCRE, _f._ (familiar), buveur d’----, _clerk_, or “quill-driver.”
ENCROTTER (popular), _to bury_. Crotte, _mud_, _muck_.
ENDÉCHER (popular), _to get one into debt_. S’----, _to run into debt_.
ENDORMAGE, _m._ (thieves’), vol à l’----, _robbing a person who has
been made unconscious by means of a narcotic_. The rogue who has
recourse to this mode of despoiling his victim is termed in English
slang “a drummer.”
ENDORMEUR, _m._, thief. See ENDORMAGE.
ENDORMI, _m._ (popular), _judge_, or “beak.”
ENDORMIR (thieves’), _to kill_, “to give one his gruel,” “to cook his
goose.” See REFROIDIR.
ENDOS, _m._ (popular), _the back_.
ENDOSSE, or ANDOSSE, _f._ (thieves’), _shoulder_; _back_. Raboter
l’----, _to beat black and blue_. See VOIE. Tapis d’----, _shawl_.
ENDROGUER (thieves’), _is said of a rogue who goes about seeking for a_
“job,” quærens quem devoret.
ENFANT, _m._ (thieves’), _short crowbar used by housebreakers_. Termed
also “Jacques, sucre de pomme, rigolo, biribi, dauphin;” and by English
rogues, “the stick, James, jemmy;” _strong box_, or “peter;” ---- de
la matte, _one of the confraternity of thieves_, or “family-man.”
(Popular) Un ---- de chœur, _sugar loaf_. Un ---- de giberne,
_soldier’s child_. Un ---- de trente-six pères, _a prostitute’s
offspring_. (Familiar) Un ---- de la balle, _an actor’s child, or one
who follows the same calling as his father_.
ENFIFRÉ, _m._ (popular), _Sodomist_, _slow man_, or “slow coach.”
ENFIGNEUR, _m._ (popular and thieves’), _Sodomist_. See GOUSSE.
ENFILAGE, _m._ (thieves’), _arrest_.
ENFILER (popular), _to take red-handed_; _to have connection_; ----
des briques, _to be fasting_, _to be_ “bandied;” ---- des perles. See
PERLES. Se faire ----, _to be caught in the act of stealing_.
ENFLAMMÉS, _m. pl._ (military), _soldiers under arrest whose fondness
for the fair sex has caused them to delay their attendance at barracks
more than is consistent with their military duties, and has brought
them into trouble_.
ENFLANELLER (popular), s’----, _to take a grog_, “a nightcap.”
ENFLAQUER (thieves’), _to seize_; _to apprehend_, “to smug.” See PIPER.
J’ai enflaqué le bogue et le morningue du pante, _I laid hands on the_
“cove’s” _watch and purse_.
J’ai manqué d’être enflaqué sur le boulevard du
Temple.--=VIDOCQ.=
S’----, _to be ruining oneself_.
ENFLÉE, _f._ (thieves’), _bladder_; _skin which contains brandy or
wine_.
ENFLER (popular), _to drink_, “to lush.” See RINCER.
ENFONCÉ, _adj._ (familiar), _ruined_; _outwitted_, “done brown.”
ENFONCER (familiar), _to outwit one_, “to do one.”
ENFONCEUR, _m._ (familiar), _a business man or financier who makes
dupes_; _harsh critic_; (thieves’) _swindler_, or “shark;” ---- de
flancheurs de gadin, _rogue who robs of their halfpence players at the
game called_ “bouchon” (_played with a cork and halfpence_). He treads
on one of the coins, which, by a skilful motion of the foot, remains in
the interstices of his worn-out shoe. The “business” is, of course, not
a very profitable one.
ENFOURAILLER (thieves’), _to apprehend_, “to smug;” _to imprison_, “to
give the clinch.” See PIPER.
ENFOURNER (popular), _to imprison_, “to give the clinch.” See PIPER.
ENFRIMER (thieves’), _to peer into one’s face_.
ENGAGÉ, _adj._ (gamblers’), être ----, _to have lost heavily at some
game_.
ENGAGER (sporting), _to enter a horse for a race_.
ENGAMÉ, _adj._ (thieves’), _enraged_; _rabid_.
ENGANTER (thieves’), _to seize_; _to steal_, “to nick.” En être
enganté, _to be in love with_.
J’ai fait par comblance
Gironde larguecapé,...
Un jour à la Courtille,
J’m’en étais enganté.
=VIDOCQ.=
ENGERBER (thieves’), _to apprehend_, “to smug.” From gerbe, _a sheaf of
corn_. See PIPER.
ENGLUER (thieves’), la chevêche, _to arrest a gang of rogues_.
ENGOURDI, _m._ (thieves’), _corpse_, or “cold meat.”
ENGRAILLER (thieves’), _to catch_, _to seize_; ---- l’ornie, _to catch
a fowl, generally by means of a baited hook_ (old cant).
Je sais bien aquiger les luques, engrailler l’ornie.--_Le
Jargon de l’Argot._ (_I know how to prepare pictures, to
catch a fowl._)
ENGRAINER (popular), _to arrive_, “to crop up.”
ENGRAISSER (thieves’), un poupart, _to make preparations for a theft or
murder_. Literally _to fatten a child_.
ENGROUILLER (popular), s’----, _to stick fast_; _to be inert, without
energy_.
ENGUEULADE, ENGUEULAGE, synonymous of ENGUEULEMENT.
ENGUEULEMENT, _m._ (popular), _abuse in any but choice language_. Also
_insults by an abusive and scurrilous journalist who runs down public
or literary men in expressions strongly savouring of the gutter_. Fair
specimens of this coarse kind of pen warfare may be found daily in at
least one notorious Radical print, which would be thought very tame
by its habitual readers if it had not a ready stock of abuse at its
disposal, the most ordinary being voleur, bandit, maquereau, scélérat,
porc, traître, vendu, ventru, ventripotent, jouisseur, idiot, crétin,
gâteux, &c., &c.
ENGUIRLANDER (popular), _to circumvent_.
ENLEVÉ, _adj._ (familiar), _spirited_. Un article ----, un discours
----, _spirited article or speech_.
ENLEVER (theatrical), _to play with spirit_; (general) ---- le ballon
à quelqu’un, _to kick one_, “to root,” or “to land a kick.” (Thieves’)
S’----, _to be famished_.
ENLEVEUR (theatrical), _actor who plays in dashing, spirited style_.
ENLUMINER (popular), s’----, _to be in the first stage of
intoxication_, or “elevated.” See SCULPTER.
ENLUMINURE, _f._ (popular), _state of slight intoxication_. See
POMPETTE.
ENNUYER (popular), s’----, _to be on the point of death_.
ENPLAQUE, _f._ (thieves’), _police_, “the reelers.”
ENQUILLER (thieves’), _to conceal_; ---- une thune de camelotte, _to
secrete a piece of cloth under one’s dress, or between one’s thighs_.
Also _to enter_, “to prat.”
J’enquille dans sa cambriole
Espérant de l’entifler.
=VIDOCQ.=
ENQUILLEUSE, _f._, _female thief who conceals stolen property under her
apron or between her legs_. From quille, _leg_.
ENQUIQUINER (popular), _to annoy_, “to spur.” Is also expressive of
scornful feelings. Je vous enquiquine! _a hang for you!_ S’----, _to
feel dull_.
ENRAYER (popular), _to renounce love and its pleasures_.
ENRHUMER (popular), _to annoy one_, _to bore one_, “to spur.” Termed
also “courir quelqu’un.”
ENROSSER (horse-dealers’), _to conceal the faults of a horse_.
(Popular) S’----, _to get lazy_, or “Mondayish.”
ENSECRÉTER (showmens’), _to make a puppet ready for the show by
dressing it up, &c._
ENSEIGNE DE CIMETIÈRE, _f._ (thieves’), _priest_, or “devil dodger.”
ENSEMBLE, _m._ (artists’), un modèle qui pose l’----, _a model who sits
for the whole figure, that is, who poses nude_.
ENTABLEMENT, _m._ (popular), _shoulders_.
ENTAILLER (thieves’), _to kill one_, “to give one his gruel.” See
REFROIDIR.