ENTAMER (thieves’), _to make one speak_; _to worm out one’s secrets_.
Si le roué veut entamer tézigue, nib du truc, _if the magistrate tries
to pump you, hold your tongue_.
ENTAULER (thieves’), _to enter_, “to prat.”
ENTENDRE (popular), de corne, _to mistake a word for another_. N’----
que du vent, _not to be able to make head or tail of what one hears_.
ENTERREMENT, _m._ (popular), _a piece of meat placed in a lump of
bread, or an apology for a sandwich_; (familiar) ---- de première
classe, _grand, but dull ceremony_. Is said also of the total failure
of a literary or dramatic production.
ENTERVER, or ENTRAVER (thieves’), _to listen_; _to hear_; _to
understand_. Que de baux la muraille enterve! _take care, the walls
have ears!_ (old)
Le rupin sortant dehors vit cet écrit, il le lut, mais il
n’entervait que floutière; il demanda au ratichon de son
village ce que cela voulait dire mais il n’entervait pas
mieux que sezière.--_Le Jargon de l’Argot._
ENTIÈRES, _f. pl._ (thieves’), _lentils_.
ENTIFFER (popular), _to enter_; (thieves’) _to wheedle_; _to adorn_.
Ah! si j’en défouraille,
Ma largue j’entiferai.
J’li f’rai porter fontange,
Et souliers galuchés.
=V. HUGO.=
ENTIFFLE, _f._ See ANTIFFLE.
ENTIFFLER (thieves’), _to wheedle_; _to walk_, or “to pad the hoof;”
_to steal_, “to nick,” or “to claim.” See GRINCHIR.
ENTONNE, _f._ (thieves’), _church_. Termed also “chique.”
ENTONNOIR, _m._ (popular), _throat_, or “peck-alley;” ---- à patte,
_drinking glass_; ---- de zinc, _a throat which is proof against the
strongest spirits_.
ENTORTILLÉ, _adj._ (popular), _clumsy_, _awkward_, _gawky_.
ENTRAVAGE, _m._ (thieves’), _hearing_; _understanding_, “twigging.”
ENTRAVER (thieves’ and cads’), _to understand_, “to twig.” J’entrave
pas dans tes vannes, _I don’t take that nonsense in_, _I am not to
be humbugged_, “do you see any green in my eye?” J’entrave pas ton
flanche, _I can’t understand what you are at_.
EN TRAVERSE, _f._ (thieves’), _at the hulks_.
ENTRECÔTE, _f._ (popular), de brodeuse, _piece of Brie cheese_.
(Thieves’) Entrecôte, _sword_.
ENTRÉE, _f._ (popular), de Portugal, _ridiculous rider_; ---- des
artistes, _anus_.
ENTREFILET, _m._ (journalists’), _short newspaper paragraph_.
ENTRELARDÉ, _m._ (popular), _a man who is neither fat nor thin_.
ENTRER (popular), aux quinze-vingts, _to fall asleep_. Les
Quinze-vingts is a government hospital for the blind; ---- dans la
confrérie de Saint-Pris, _to get married_, or “spliced;” ---- dans
l’infanterie, _to be pregnant_; ---- en tempête, _to fly into a
passion_, “to lose one’s shirt.”
ENTRIPAILLÉ, _adj._ (popular), _stout_, _with a_ “corporation” _in
front_.
ENTRIPAILLER (popular), s’----, _to grow stout_.
ENTROLER, ENTROLLER (thieves’), _to carry away_.
Il mouchailla des ornies de balle qui morfilaient du grenu
en la cour; alors il ficha de son sabre sur la tronche
à une, il l’abasourdit, la met dans son gueulard et
l’entrolle.--_Le Jargon de l’Argot._ (_He saw some turkey
cocks which were pecking at some corn in the yard; he then
cut one over the head with his sword, killed it, put it in
his wallet, and carried it off._)
ENVELOPPER (artists’), _to draw the sketch of a painting_.