(Popular) Grêle, _pockmarks_. Ne pas s’être assuré contre la ----, _to
be pockmarked_, or “to be cribbage-faced.”
GRÊLESSE, _f._ (popular), _mistress of an establishment_.
GRELOT, _m._ (popular), _voice_.
C’est bien le son du grelot, si ce n’est pas la
frimousse.--=BALZAC.=
GRELOT, _tongue_, or “red rag.” Il en a un ----! _how he does jaw
away_. Faire péter son ----, _to talk_, “to wag the red rag.” Mettre
une sourdine à son ----, _to keep silent_, “to be mum.” Mets une
sourdine à ton ----, _don’t talk so much_, “don’t shoot off your mouth”
(Americanism).
GRELU, or GRENU, _m._ (thieves’), _corn_.
GRELUCHONNER (popular), _to be a_ “greluchon,” _that is, the lover of
a married woman, or of a girl kept by another; or one who lives at the
expense of a woman_. Voltaire has used the word greluchon with the
first meaning.
GRENADIER, _m._ (popular), _louse_, “grey” or “grey-backed un.”
GRENAFE, GRENASSE, _f._ (thieves’), _barn_.
GRENIER, _m._ (popular), à coups de poing, _drunkard’s wife_; ---- à
coups de sabre, _soldier’s woman_; ---- à lentilles, _pockmarked face_,
or “cribbage face;” ---- à sel, _head_, “tibby,” or “canister.” See
TRONCHE.
GRENOBLE. See CONDUITE.
GRENOUILLARD, _m._ (popular), _one fond of the water for the inside or
outside_. (Artists’) Faire ----, _to paint in a bold, dashing style_,
after the manner of Delacroix.
GRENOUILLE, _f._ (popular), _woman_. An insulting epithet; (military)
_cash-box_. (General) Emporter la ----, _to abscond with the cash-box_.
Manger la ----, _to spend for ones own purposes the contents of the
cash-box, or funds entrusted to one’s keeping_. (Popular) Sirop de
----, _water_, “Adam’s ale.”
GRENOUILLER (popular), _to drink water_. Had formerly the signification
of _to frequent wine-shops_.
GRENOUILLÈRE, _f._ (general), _swimming bath_. La Grenouillère is the
name of a well-known swimming establishment on the bank of the Seine at
Chatou, a place much patronized by “mashers” and more than fast ladies.
GRENU, or GRELU, _m._ (thieves’), _corn_.
GRENUCHE, _f._ (thieves’), _oats_.
GRENUE, GRENUSE, _f._ (thieves’), _flour_.
GRÈS, _m._ (thieves’), _horse_, or “prad.” Termed also “gail.”
GRÉSILLONNER (popular), _to ask for credit_, “tick,” “jawbone,” or
“day.”
GRESSIER (thieves’), _to steal_, “to nick.” See GRINCHIR.
GRÈVE, _f._ (thieves’), hirondelle de ----, _gendarme_. Executions
formerly took place at the Place de Grève in front of the Hôtel de
Ville, hence the expression. Des anges de ---- (obsolete), _porters_.
GRÉVISTE, _m._ (popular), _workman on strike_. From grève, _strike_.
Du reste, la bande de grévistes ... ne viendrait plus à
cette heure; quelque obstacle avait dû l’arrêter, des
gendarmes peut être.--=ZOLA=, _Germinal_.
GRÉZILLON, _m._ (popular), _pinch_.
GRIBIS, GRIPIE, GRIPPIS, GRIPPE-FLEUR (thieves’), _miller_.
Il y avait en un certain tourniquet un gribis qui ne
fichait rien que floutière aux bons pauvres.--_Le Jargon de
l’Argot._ (_There used to be in a certain mill a miller who
never gave anything to the worthy poor._)
GRIBLAGE, CRIBLAGE, _m._ (thieves’), _shout_, _shouting_; (popular)
_complaint_, _grumbling_.
GRIE, _m._, GRIELLE, _f. adj._ (thieves’), _cold_.
GRIFFARD, GRIFFON, _m._ (popular), _cat_. Griffe, _claw_.
GRIFFARDE, _f._ (thieves’), _pen_.
GRIFFER (popular), _to seize_, “to collar;” _to take_; _to purloin_,
“to prig.”
GRIFFETON, _m._ (popular), _soldier_, or “wobbler.” From grive,
grivier, _a soldier_.
GRIFFLEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _chief warder in a prison_, “head screw.”
GRIFFON, _m._ (thieves’), _writer_.
GRIFFONNANTE, _f._ (thieves’), _pen_. Griffonner, _to write a scrawl_.
GRIFFONNER (thieves’), _to swear_.
GRIFFONNEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _one who swears_; (popular) ---- de
babillards, _journalist_.
GRIFLER (thieves’), _to take_, “to grab.”
GRIFON (Breton cant), _dog_.
GRIGNOLET, _m._ (popular), _bread_, “soft tommy.”
GRIGNON, _m._ (thieves’), _judge_, “beak.” Probably from “grigner les
dents,” _to show one’s teeth threateningly_, or from “grognon.”
GRILLÉE, _adj._ (familiar), _absinthe_; _absinthe with sugar_. The
sugar is held over the glass on a small grating (grille), until
gradually melted by the liquid poured over it.
GRILLER (popular), quelqu’un, _to lock up one_, “to run in;” _to
deceive one_ (_conjugally_). En ---- une, _to smoke a pipe or
cigarette_. En ---- une sèche, _to smoke a cigarette_. Griller une
bouffarde, _to smoke a pipe_.
Au gardien de la paix ... sa consigne lui défend de boire
et de fumer. Ni boire un verre, ni griller une bouffarde!
Voilà la consigne.--_Mémoires de Monsieur Claude._
GRILLEUSE DE BLANC, _f._ (popular), _ironer_. From griller, _to toast_,
_to singe_.
GRIMER (popular), _to arrest_. See PIPER. Se ----, _to get drunk_, or
“screwed.” Properly _to paint one’s face_. For synonyms see SCULPTER.
GRIMOIRE, _m._ (thieves’), _penal code_; ---- mouchique, _judicial
documents_; _act of indictment_.
GRIMOIRIER, _m._ (thieves’), _clerk of arraigns_.
GRIMPANT, _adj. and m._ (thieves’), chevalier ----, voleur au bonjour,
donneur de bonjour, or bonjourier, _thief who enters a house,
pretending to be mistaken when discovered, and steals any property
worth taking_. (Popular) Un grimpant, _trousers_, “sit-upons, or
kicks.” (Popular and thieves’) Les grimpants, _staircase_; _steps_, or
“dancers.” (Military) Grand ---- tropical, _riding breeches_.
GRIMPE-CHATS, _m._ (popular), _roof_.
GRINCHAGE (thieves’), for GRINCHISSAGE, which see.
Un journal racontait hier que T’Kindt était, du reste,
un vrai artiste en matière de grinchage, appliqué au
_high-life_.--=PIERRE VÉRON=, _Evénement_ au 9 Novembre,
1878.
GRINCHE, _m. and f._ (thieves’), la ----, _dancing_. Un ----, _a
thief_, or “prig.”
Le Grinche, terme d’argot signifiant voleur, a servi de
titre à un journal Montagnard qui a fait paraître deux
numéros au mois de juin, 1848.--=G. BRUNET=, _Dictionnaire
de la Conversation et de la Lecture_.
Nous étions dix à douze,
Tous grinches de renom;
Nous attendions la sorgue,
Voulant poisser des bogues,
Pour faire du billon.
=VIDOCQ.=
Un ---- de cambrouse, a _highwayman_. In the old English cant,
“bridle-cull.” Other varieties of the tribe of malefactors go by
the appellations of “grinchisseur, pègre, chevalier de la grippe,
fourline, escarpe, poisse, limousineur, charron, truqueur, locandier,
vanternier, cambrioleur, caroubleur, solitaire, compagnon, deffardeur,
pogne, tireur, voleur à la tire, doubleur, fil de soie, mion de
boule, grinchisseur de bogues, friauche, tirebogue, Américain,
jardinier, ramastiqueur, enfant de minuit, philosophe, philibert,
voleur au bonjour, bonjourier, philantrope, frère de la manicle,
garçon de campagne, garçon de cambrouse, tiretaine, enfant de la
matte, careur, chêne affranchi, droguiste, &c.; the English brethren
being denominated “prig, cracksman, crossman, sneaksman, moucher,
hooker, flash cove, bug-hunter, cross-cove, buz-faker, stook-hauler,
toy-getter, tooler, prop-nailer, area-sneak, palmer, dragsman,
lob-sneak, bouncer, lully-prigger, thimble-twister, gun, conveyancer,
dancer, pudding-snammer, beak-hunter, ziff, drummer, buttock-and-file,
poll-thief, little snakesman, mill-ben, a cove on the cross, flashman,
finder, gleaner, picker, tax-collector,” and formerly “a good fellow, a
bridle-cull” (highwayman).
GRINCHER (thieves’), _to rob_. See GRINCHIR.
Quand ils vont décarrer nous les empaumerons. Je grincherai
le sinve. Il est avec une largue, il ne criblera pas.
--=E. SUE=. (_We’ll follow them when they come out. I’ll rob
the cove. He is with a woman, he will not cry out._)
GRINCHEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _young thief_, or “ziff.”
GRINCHIE, _adj._ (thieves’), camelotte ----, _stolen goods_, “swag.”
GRINCHIR (thieves’), _to steal_. Rabelais in his _Pantagruel_ says of
Panurge:--“Toutesfois il avoit soixante et trois manières d’en trouver
toujours à son besoing (_de l’argent_), dont la plus honorable et la
plus commune estoit par façon de larrecin furtivement faict.” One may
judge from what follows, and by the numerous varieties of “larrecin
furtivement faict” described under the head of “grinchissage,” that
the imitators of Panurge have not remained far behind in the art of
filling their pockets at the expense of the public. Some of the many
expressions to describe robbery pure and simple, or the different
varieties, are:--“Mettre la pogne dessus, travailler, faire, décrasser,
rincer, entiffler, retirer l’artiche, savonner, doubler, barbotter,
graisser, dégauchir, dégraisser, effaroucher, évaporer, agripper,
soulever, fourmiller, filer, acheter à la foire d’empoigne, pégrer,
goupiner à la desserte, sauter, marner, cabasser, mettre de la
paille dans ses souliers, faire le saut, secouer, gressier, faire le
bobe, faire la bride, faire le morlingue, faire un poivrot, faire un
coup d’étal, faire un coup de radin, rincer une cambriolle, faire
la soulasse sur le grand trimar, ramastiquer, fourlourer, faire le
mouchoir, faire un coup de roulotte, faire grippe-cheville,” &c., &c.
The English synonyms are as follows:--“To cop, to touch, to claim, to
prig, to wolf, to snake, to pinch, to nibble, to clift, to collar, to
nail, to grab, to jump, to nab, to hook, to nim, to fake, to crib, to
ease, to convey, to buz, to be on the cross, to do the sneaking-budge,
to nick, to fang,” &c., &c.
GRINCHISSAGE, _m._ (thieves’), _thieving_; _theft_, or
“sneaking-budge.” The latter expression is used by Fielding.
Wild looked upon borrowing to be as good a way of taking
as any, and, as he called it, the genteelest kind of
sneaking-budge--=FIELDING=, _Jonathan Wild_.
Le ---- à domicile is practised by rogues known under the following
denominations:--“Le bonjourier,” see this word; “le cambrioleur,” _who
operates in apartments_; “le caroubleur,” _who effects an entrance
by means of skeleton keys_; “le chevalier du pince-linge,” _one who
steals linen_, “snow-gatherer;” “le déménageur,” _who takes possession
of articles of furniture, descending the staircase backwards, so that
on an emergency he may at once make a show of ascending, as if he were
bringing in furniture_; “le grinchisseur à la desserte,” _thief who
enters a dining-room just after dinner-time, and lays hands on the
plate_; “le gras-doublier,” _who steals lead off the roofs_, _who_
“flies the blue pigeon;” “le matelassier,” _a thief who pretends to
repair and clean mattresses_; “le vanternier,” _who effects an entrance
through a window_, “dancer;” “le voleur à la location,” _who pretends
to be in quest of apartments to let_; “le voleur au recensement,” _who
pretends to be an official employed in the census_. Le grinchissage à
la ballade, or à la trimballade, _the thief makes some purchases, and
finding he has not sufficient money, requests a clerk to accompany
him home, entrusting the parcel to a pretended commissionnaire, a
confederate. On the way the rogues suddenly vanish_. Le ---- à la
broquille _consists in substituting sham jewellery for the genuine
article when offered for inspection by the tradesman_. Le ---- à la
carre. See CARREUR. Le ---- à la cire, _purloining a silver fork or
spoon at a restaurant by making it adhere under the table by means of
a piece of soft wax. After this preliminary operation the rogue leaves
the place, generally after having been searched by the restaurant
keeper; then an accomplice enters, takes his confederate’s place at the
table, and obtains possession of the property_. Le ---- à la détourne,
_the thief secretes goods in a shop while a confederate distracts the
attention of the shopkeeper_. The rogue who thus operates is termed in
English cant a “palmer.” The thief is sometimes a female who has in her
arms an infant, whose swaddling-clothes serve as a receptacle for the
stolen property. Le ----, or vol à la glu, _takes place in churches
by means of a rod with birdlime at one end, plunged through the slit
in the alms-box, termed_ tronc; _the coins adhering to the extremity
of the rod are thus fished out._ Le ----, or vol à l’Américaine,
_confidence-trick robbery_. It is the old story of a traveller meeting
with a countryman and managing to exchange the latter’s well-filled
purse for a bag of leaden coins. Those who practise it are termed
“Américains,” or “magsmen.”
Il est aussi vieux que le monde. Il a été raconté mille
fois!... Ce vol suranné réussit toujours! il réussira tant
qu’il y aura des simples, jusqu’à la consommation des
siècles.--_Mémoires de Monsieur Claude._
Le ---- à la mélasse, _the rogue has a tall hat, with the inside of
the crown besmeared with treacle, which he suddenly places on the
head of the tradesman, pushing it far down over his eyes, and thus
making him temporarily helpless_ (Pierre Delcourt, _Paris Voleur_).
Le ---- à la quête, _stealing part of the proceeds of a collection in
a church when the plate is being passed round_. Le ----, or vol à la
reconnaissance, _consists in picking the pockets of a passer-by while
pretending to recognize him and greeting him as an old friend_. Le
----, or vol à la tire, _according to Monsieur Claude, formerly head of
the detective department, this species of theft is the classical one
in which the celebrated Cartouche, a kind of French Jack Sheppard, was
an adept. It consists in picking waistcoat pockets by means of a pair
of scissors or a double-bladed penknife._ Le ----, or vol à l’épate,
_is high-class swindling_. _It comprises_ “le brodage,” “le chantage,”
“le négoce,” _and_ “le vol au cautionnement.” _The first of these
consists in the setting-up of a financial establishment and opening an
account for unwary merchants, who are made to sign bills in exchange
for the swindlers’ paper endorsed by them. When these bills become due
they are returned dishonoured, so that the victimized merchants are
responsible for the payment not only of their own notes of hand but
those of the swindlers as well_. “Le chantage” _is extorting money
by threat of exposure_. The proceeds are termed in the English slang
“socket-money.” For full explanation see CHANTEUR. “Le négoce” _is
practised by English swindlers who represent themselves as being the
agents of some well-known firm, and thus obtain goods from continental
merchants in exchange for fictitious bills_. “Le vol au cautionnement,”
_the rogues set up a sham financial establishment and advertise for a
number of clerks to be employed by the firm on the condition of leaving
a deposit as a guarantee. When a large staff of officials, or rather
pigeons, have been found, the managers decamp with the deposit fund_.
Le ----, or vol à la roulotte or roulante, _the thief jumps on the box
of a vehicle temporarily left in the street by its owner and drives
off at a gallop. Sometimes the horse alone is disposed of, the vehicle
being left in some out-of-the-way place_. _The_ “roulottiers” _also
steal hawkers’ hand-barrows_, or “shallows.” One of these rogues, when
apprehended, confessed to having stolen thirty-three hand-barrows,
fifty-three vans or carts, and as many horses. Sometimes the
“roulottier” will rob property from cabs or carriages by climbing up
behind and cutting the straps that secure the luggage on the roof. His
English representative is termed a “dragsman,” according to Mr. James
Greenwood. See _The Seven Curses of London_, p. 87. Le ----, or vol à
l’esbrouffe, _picking the pockets of a passer-by while hustling him
as if by accident_, termed “ramping.” Le ----, or vol à l’étourneau,
_when a thief who has just stolen the contents of a till is making his
escape, an accomplice who is keeping watch outside scampers off in
the opposite direction, so as to baffle the puzzled tradesman, whose
hesitation allows of the rogues gaining ground_. Le ----, or vol à
l’opium, _robbery from a person who has been drugged. The scoundrels
who practise it are generally Jewish money-lenders of the lowest class,
who attract their victims to their abode under pretence of advancing
money_. A robber who first makes his victim insensible by drugs is
termed in the English cant a “drummer.” Le ---- au boulon, _stealing
from a shop by means of a rod or wire passed through a hole in the
shutter_, “hooking.” Le ----, or vol au cerf-volant, _is practised by
women, who strip little girls of their trinkets or ease them of their
money or parcels. The little victims sometimes get their hair shorn
off as well_. Le ----, or vol au chatouillage, _a couple of rogues
pretend to recognize a friend in a man easing himself. They begin to
tickle him in the ribs as if in play, meanwhile rifling the pockets of
the helpless victim_. Le ----, or vol au colis, _the thief leaves a
parcel in some coffee-house with the recommendation to the landlord not
to give it up except on payment of say twenty francs. He then seeks a
commissionnaire simple-minded enough to be willing to fetch the parcel
and to pay the necessary sum, after which the swindler returns to
the place and pockets the money left by the pigeon_. Le ----, or vol
au fric-frac, _housebreaking_, or “crib-cracking.” Le ----, or vol au
gail or gayet, _horse-stealing_, or “prad-napping.” Le ----, or vol au
grimpant, _a young thief_, or “little snakesman,” _climbs on to the
roof of a house and throws a rope-ladder to his accomplices below, who
thus effect an entrance. When detected they pass themselves off for
workmen engaged in some repairs_. Le ----, or vol au parapluie, _a
shoplifter_, or “sneaksman,” _drops the stolen property in a half-open
umbrella_. Le ----, or vol au poivrier, _consists in robbing drunkards
who have come to grief. Rogues who practise it are in most cases
apprehended, detectives being in the habit of impersonating drunkards
asleep on benches late at night_. Le ---- au prix courant, or en pleine
trèpe, _picking pockets or scarf-pins in a crowd_, “cross-fanning.” Le
----, or vol au radin, _the landlord of a wine-shop is requested to
fetch a bottle of his best wine; while he is busy in the cellar the
trap which gives access to it is closed by the rogues, and the counter,
or_ “radin,” _pushed on to it, thus imprisoning the victim, who
clamours in vain while his till is being emptied. It also takes place
in this way: the rogues pretend to quarrel, and one of them throws
the other’s cap into a shop, thus providing him with an excuse for
entering the place and robbing the till_, or “pinching the bob or lob.”
Le ----, or vol au raton, _a little boy, a_ “raton,” _or_ “anguille”
(termed “tool or little snakesman” in the English cant), _is employed
in this kind of robbery, by burglars, to enter small apertures and to
open doors for the others outside_ (Pierre Delcourt, _Paris Voleur_).
Le ----, or vol au rigolo, _appropriating the contents of a cash-box
opened by means of a skeleton key_.
Le Pince-Monseigneur perfectionné, se porte aujourd’hui
dans un étui à cigares et dans un porte-monnaie ...
les voleurs au rigolo ouvrent aujourd’hui toutes les
caisses.--_Mémoires de Monsieur Claude._
Le ----, or vol au suif, _variety of card-sharping swindle_.
Il s’opère par un grec qui rôde chez les marchands de vin,
dans les cafés borgnes, pour dégotter, en bon suiffeur,
une frimousse de pante ou de daim.--_Mémoires de Monsieur
Claude._
Le ----, or vol au timbre, _a tobacconist is asked for a large number
of stamps, which the thief carefully encloses in an envelope. Suddenly,
when about to pay for them, he finds he has forgotten his purse,
returns the envelope containing the stamps to the tradesman and leaves
to fetch the necessary sum. Needless to say, the envelope is empty._
Le ----, or vol au tiroir, _the thief enters a tobacconist’s or spirit
shop, and asks for a cigar or glass of spirits. When the tradesman
opens his till to give change, snuff is thrown into his eyes, thus
making him helpless_. This class of thieves is termed in the English
cant “sneeze-lurkers.”
GRINCHISSEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _thief_, or “prig,” see GRINCHE; ----
de bogues, _pickpocket who devotes his attention to watches_, a
“toy-getter,” or “tooler.”
GRINGUE, _f._ (popular), _bread_, or “soft tommy;” _food_, or “prog.”
GRIPIE, _m._ (thieves’), _miller_. See GRIBIS.
GRIPPE, _f._ (thieves’), chevalier de la ----, _thief_, or “prig.” See
GRINCHE.
GRIPPE-CHEVILLE (thieves’), faire ----, _to steal_, “to claim.” See
GRINCHIR.
GRIPPE-FLEUR, GRIPIE, GRIPPIS, _m._ (thieves’), _miller_. Termed
“Grindoff” in English slang.
GRIPPE-JÉSUS, _m._ (thieves’), _gendarme_.
Parcequ’ils arrêtent les innocents et qu’ils n’ont pas même
épargné Jésus.--=NISARD.=
GRIPPEMINI, _m._ (obsolete), _barrister_, or “mouthpiece;” _lawyer_,
“sublime rascal, or green bag;” _extortioner_. From grippeminaud,
_thief_.
GRIPPER (thieves’), _to apprehend_, “to smug.” See PIPER. Rabelais uses
the term with the signification of _to seize_:--
Parmy eulx règne la sexte essence, moyennant laquelle ils
grippent tout, dévorent tout et conchient tout.
GRIPPERIE, _f._ (popular), _theft_ (obsolete).
GRIPPIS, GRIPIE, GRIPPE-FLEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _miller_.
GRIS, _adj. and m._ (thieves’), _dear_; _wind_; (popular) ----
d’officier, _slight intoxication_; ---- jusqu’à la troisième capucine,
_completely drunk_, or “slewed.” Capucine, _a musket band_.
GRISAILLE, _f._ (popular), _sister of mercy_. An allusion to the grey
costume worn by sisters of mercy.
GRISES, _f. pl._ (general), en faire voir de ----, _to lead one a hard
life_.
GRISETTE. See BIFTECK.
GRISOTTER (popular), se ----, _to get slightly drunk_, or “elevated.”
See SCULPTER.
GRISPIN, _m._ (thieves’), _miller_.
GRIVE, _f._ (thieves’), _army_; _military patrol_; _warder_. Cribler à
la ----, _to cry out thieves_, “to whiddle beef.” Synonymous of “crier
à la garde.” Harnais de ----, _uniform_. Tapis de ----, _canteen_.
GRIVIER, _m._ (thieves’), _soldier_, “swaddy, lobster, or red herring.”
From “grivois,” formerly _a soldier of foreign troops in the service
of France_. The word “grivois” itself seems to be a corruption of
“gruyers,” used by Rabelais, and signifying Swiss soldiers, natives of
Gruyères, serving in the French army. Grivier de gaffe, _sentry_; ----
de narquois, _deserter_. Literally _a bantering soldier_.
GRIVOISE, _f._ (obsolete), _soldier’s wench_, _garrison town
prostitute_. Termed by the English military “barrack-hack.”
Grivoise, c’est à dire coureuse, putain, débauchée,
aventurière, dame suivante de l’armée ou gibier de
corps-de-garde, une garce à soldats.--_Dictionnaire
Comique._
GROBIS, _m._ (familiar), faire du ----, _to look big_ (obsolete).
Et en faisant du grobis leur donnait sa
bénédiction.--=RABELAIS.=
GROG AU BŒUF, _m._ (popular), _broth_.
GROGNE, _f._ (obsolete), faire la ----, _to grumble_, _to have_ “the
tantrums.”
Faire la grogne, pour faire la moue, prendre la chèvre,
faire mauvais visage, bouder, gronder, être de mauvaise
humeur, dédaigner.--_Dictionnaire Comique._
GROGNON, _m._ (thieves’), _one about to be executed_. Properly _one
who grumbles_, and very naturally so, at the unpleasant prospect. The
English equivalent is “gallows-ripe.”
GROLLER (popular), _to growl_, _to grumble_. Properly _to croak_. From
the word grolle, used by Rabelais with the signification of _crow_.
GROMIAU, _m._ (popular), _child_, “kid.” Termed also “gosse, loupiau.”
GRONDIN, _m._ (thieves’), _pig_, “sow’s baby,” or “grunting cheat.”
GROS, _adv. and adj._ (popular), coucher ---- (obsolete), _to utter
some enormity_. Gâcher du ----, _to ease oneself_. See MOUSCAILLER.
Gros cul, _prosperous rag-picker_; ---- lot, _venereal disease_;
(familiar and popular) ---- bonnet, _influential man_; _high official_,
“big-wig;” ---- numéro, _brothel_, or “nanny-shop.” An establishment of
that description has a number of large dimensions placed over the front
door, and window panes whitewashed. (Thieves’) Artie de ---- Guillaume,
_brown bread_. The expression, “du gros Guillaume,” was formerly used
by the Parisians.
On appelle du gros Guillaume, du pain destiné, dans les
maisons de campagne, pour la nourriture des valets de
cour.--Du gros Guillaume, mot Parisien, pour dire du
pain bis, du gros pain de ménage, tel que le mangent les
paysans.--=LE ROUX=, _Dict. Comique_.
(Military) Gros bonnet, _officer of high rank_, “bloke;” ----
frères, ---- lolos, or ---- talons, _the cuirassiers_; ---- légumes,
_field-officers_. A play on the words “épaulettes à graines
d’épinards,” _the insignia of such officers_. The word gros, considered
as the masculine of “grosse,” synonymous of “enceinte,” was formerly
used with the signification of _impatient_, _longing_, alluding to the
uncontrollable desires which are sometimes manifested by women in a
state of pregnancy. Thus people would express their eagerness by such
ridiculous phrases as, “Je suis gros de vous voir, de boire avec vous,
de le connaître.”
GROSSE, _adj. f._ (popular), caisse, _the body_, or “apple cart;”
---- cavalerie, _staff of scavengers_, or “rake kennels,” an allusion
to their big boots; ---- culotte, _drunkard_. (Convicts’) Grosse
cavalerie, _scum of the hulks_, _desperate scoundrels_; and, in
theatrical language, _supernumeraries of the ballet_. (Tramcar
conductors’) Aller voir les grosses têtes, _to drive the first morning
car to Bineau_, this part of Paris being inhabited by substantial
people.
GROSSIOT, _m._ (popular), _person of good standing_, a “swell.”
GROTTE, _f._ (thieves’), _the hulks_. Gerbé à la ----, _sentenced to
transportation_, or “lagged.” Aller à la ----, _to be transported_, “to
lump the lighter.”
GROUCHY, _m._ (printers’), petit ----, _one who is late_; _small job,
the composition of which has been delayed_. An allusion to the alleged
tardiness of General Grouchy at Waterloo.
GROUILLER (sailors’), attrape à ne pas ----, _mind you do not move_.
Attrape à ne pas grouiller, fit le vieux.... Tu perdrais
ton souffle à lui courir après.--=RICHEPIN=, _La Glu_.
GROUILLIS-GROUILLOT, _m._ (popular), _swarm_, _crowd_, or “scuff.”
GROUIN, _m._ (popular), _face_, or “mug.” Properly _snout_. Se lécher
le ----, _to kiss one another_. Donner un coup de ---- (obsolete), _to
kiss_.
GROULE, GROULASSE, _f._ (popular), _female apprentice_; _small
servant_; _young_ “slavey,” or “marchioness.”
GROUMER (popular), _to grumble_.
GRUBLER (thieves’), _to grumble_; _to growl_.
Vous grublez comme un guichemard.--=RICHEPIN.= (_You growl
like a jailer._)
GRUE, _f._ (familiar), _more than fast girl_; _kept woman_, or
“demi-rep;” _foolish, empty-headed girl or woman_.
GRUERIE, _f._ (familiar), _stupidity_.
GRUN (Breton cant), _chin_.
GRUYÈRE, _m._ (popular), morceau de ----, _pockmarked face_, or
“cribbage face.”
GUADELOUPE, _f._ (popular), _mouth_, or “rattle-trap.” Charger pour la
----, _to eat_. See MASTIQUER.
GUANO, _m._ (popular), _excrement_, or “quaker.” An allusion to the
guano of South America.
GUÉDOUZE, or GUÉTOUSE, _f._ (thieves’), _death_.
GUELDRE, _f._ (fishermens’), _bait prepared with shrimps for the
fishing of sardines_.
La sardine est jolie en arrivant à l’air ...
Mais pour aller la prendre il faut avoir le nez
Bougrement plein de poils, et de poils goudronnés;
Car la gueldre et la rogue avec quoi l’on arrose
Les seines qu’on lui tend, ne fleurent point la rose.
Gueldre, lisez mortier de crevettes, pas frais.
=RICHEPIN=, _La Mer_.
GUELTE, _f._ (shopmens’), _percentage allowed on sales_.
GUELTER (shopmens’), _to make a percentage on sales_; _to pay such
percentage_.
GUÉNAUD, _m._ (thieves’), _wizard_.
GUÉNAUDE, _f._ (thieves’), _witch_.
GUENETTE, _f._ (thieves’), _fear_, “funk.”
GUENILLES, _f. pl._ (familiar), trousser ses ----, _to run away_
(obsolete), “to tip one’s rags a gallop.”
Gentil ambassadeur de quilles,
Croyez-moi, troussez vos guenilles.
=SCARRON=, _Gigantomachie_.
GUENON, _f._ (popular), _mistress of an establishment_, _the master_
being “le singe.”
GUÉRI, _adj._ (thieves’), _set at liberty_; _free_; the prison being
termed “hôpital,” and imprisonment “maladie.”
Hélas! il est malade à Canelle (il est arrêté à Caen) ...
il a une fièvre chaude (il est fortement compromis), et
vous, il paraît que vous êtes guéri (libre)?--=VIDOCQ.=
GUÉRITE, _f._ (popular), à calotins, _confessional_. Guérite is
properly _a sentry-box_. Enfiler la ---- (obsolete), _to run away_.
GUÊTRÉ, _m._ (military), _trooper who, for some reason or other, has to
make the day’s journey on foot_.
GUEULARD, _m._ (thieves’), _bag_; _wallet_.
Ils trollent ordinairement à leur côté un gueulard avec une
rouillarde pour mettre le pivois.--_Le Jargon de l’Argot._
(_They generally carry by their side a wallet with a bottle
to keep the wine in._)
(Popular) Un ----, _a stove_. Gueulard, properly a _gormandizer_.
GUEULARDE, _f._ (thieves’), _pocket_, “cly,” “sky-rocket,” or “brigh.”
Termed also “fouillouse, louche, profonde, or grande.”
GUEULARDISE, _f._ (popular), _dainty food_.
GUEULE, _f._ (popular), d’empeigne, _palate which, by dint of constant
application to the bottle, has become proof against the strongest
liquors_; _loud voice_; ---- de raie, _ugly phiz_, or “knocker face;”
---- de tourte, _stupid-looking face_. Bonne ----, _grotesque face_.
Crever la ---- à quelqu’un, _to break one’s head_.