Avoir de la ----, _to be loud-mouthed_. Il n’a que la ----, _he is a
humbug_. Se chiquer la ----, _to maul one another’s face_. (Military)
Roulement de la ----, _beating to dinner_. Se sculpter une ---- de
bois, _to get drunk_, or “screwed.” For synonyms see SCULPTER.
GUEULÉE, _f._ (popular), _howling_; _meal_. Chercher la ----, _to be a
parasite_, or “quiller.”
GUEULÉES, _f. pl._ (popular), _objectionable talk_, or “blue talk.”
GUEULER (popular), comme un âne, _to be loud-tongued_; (thieves’) ----
à la chienlit, _to cry out thieves! or police!_ “to whiddle beef.”
GUEULETON, _m._ (familiar and popular), _a feast_, or “spread.”
Et les artistes se levèrent pour serrer la main d’un frère
qui offrait un gueuleton général.--=E. MONTEIL.=
GUEULETONNER (familiar and popular), _to feast_.
GUEUSE, _f._ (popular), _mistress_; _prostitute_, or “mot.” See GADOUE.
Courir la ----, _to be a whore-monger_, or “molrower.”
GUEUX, _m._ (popular), _small pan full of charcoal used as a
foot-warmer by market women, &c._
Une vieille femme ... est accroupie près d’un gueux sur les
cendres duquel une cafetière ronronne.--=P. MAHALIN.=
GUEUX-GUEUX (obsolete), _rascal_; the expression being used in a
friendly manner.
GUIBE (popular), _leg_; ---- à la manque, _lame leg_; ---- de satou,
_wooden leg_. Jouer des guibes, _to dance_; _to run away_, “to slope.”
See PATATROT.
GUIBOLE, or GUIBOLLE, _f._ (popular and thieves’), _leg_, “pin.”
Mais comment? Lui, si démoli, si mal gréé à c’t’heure,
avec sa guibole boiteuse, et ses bras rouillés, et toutes
les avaries de sa coque en retraite, comment pourrait-il
saborder ce gaillard-là, d’aplomb et trapu?--=RICHEPIN=,
_La Glu_.
Jouer des guiboles, _to run_; _to dance_.
Puis, le soir, on avait fichu un balthazar à tout casser,
et jusqu’au jour on avait joué des guiboles.--=ZOLA=,
_L’Assommoir_.
GUIBON. See GUIBONNE.
GUIBONNE, _f._ (popular and thieves’), _leg_; ---- carrée, _ham_.
Mes jamb’s sont fait’s comm’ des trombones.
Oui, mais j’sais tirer--gar’ là-dessous!--
La savate, avec mes guibonnes
Comm’ cell’s d’un canard eud’ quinze sous.
=RICHEPIN=, _La Chanson des Gueux_.
GUICHE, _m. and f._ (popular and thieves’), duc de ----, _jailer_,
or “jigger dubber.” From guichetier, _jailer_. Mec de la ----,
_prostitute’s bully_, or “Sunday man.” Thus termed on account of
his kiss-curls. For list of synonyms see POISSON. Des guiches,
_kiss-curls_. Termed in the English slang, “aggerawators,” or “Newgate
knockers.” Regarding the latter expression the _Slang Dictionary_
says: “‘Newgate knocker,’ the term given to the lock of hair which
costermongers and thieves usually twist back towards the ear. The
shape is supposed to resemble the knocker on the prisoners’ door at
Newgate--a resemblance that carries a rather unpleasant suggestion
to the wearer. Sometimes termed a ‘cobbler’s knot,’ or ‘cow-lick.’”
Trifouiller les guiches, _to comb the hair_. (Familiar) Chevalier de
la ----, _prostitute’s bully_, or “pensioner.” For list of synonymous
expressions see POISSON. Le bataillon de la ----, _the world of
bullies_.
Et si la p’tit’ ponif’triche
Su’ l’compt’ des rouleaux,
Gare au bataillon d’la guiche!
C’est nous qu’est les dos.
=RICHEPIN.=
Un ----, _a prostitute’s bully_.
C’est ... un guiche, c’est-à-dire un jeune homme aux mains
blanches, à l’accroche-cœur, l’Adonis des nymphes des
musettes, quand ce n’est pas une tante!... La moitié des
crimes qui se commettent à Paris est conçue par le cerveau
des guiches, exécutée par les bras des chefs d’attaque
et finie par des assommeurs.--_Les Mémoires de Monsieur
Claude._
GUICHEMAR, GUICHEMARD, GUICHEMINCE, GUICHEMUCHE, _m._ (thieves’ and
popular), _jailer_, “jigger dubber.” For guichetier.
GUIDE, _m._ (thieves’), _the prime-mover in a murder_.
C’est toujours le pégriot, le guide ou le toucheur qui
devient à priori le chef d’attaque responsable d’une
affaire criminelle.--_Mémoires de Monsieur Claude._
GUIGNARD, _m._ (popular), _ill luck_.
GUIGNE-À-GAUCHE, _m._ (popular), _squinting man, or one with_ “swivel
eyes.” From guigner, _to scan_.
GUIGNOL, _m._ (popular), _small theatre_.
GUIGNOLANT, _adj._ (popular), _unlucky_; _annoying_.
GUIGNONNÉ, _adj._ (popular), être ----, _to be unlucky at a game_.
GUILLOTINE SÈCHE, _f._ (familiar), _transportation_. To be transported
is expressed in the language of English rogues by the term “lighting
the lumper.”
GUIMBARD, _m._ (thieves’), _the van that conveys prisoners to gaol_.
Called by English rogues “Black Maria.”
GUIMBARDE, _f._ (popular), _door_; _voice_; _head_; _carriage_;
_good-for-nothing woman_. Properly _Jew’s-harp_.
Oui, une femme devait savoir se retourner, mais la
sienne avait toujours été une guimbarde, un tas. Ce
serait sa faute, s’ils crevaient sur la paille.--=ZOLA=,
_L’Assommoir_.
Also _clock_.
Au moment juste où douze plombes se sont décrochées à la
guimbarde de la tôle.--_Le Père Duchêne, 1879._
Couper la ---- à quelqu’un, _to cut one short_.
Mon gesse et surtout mon n’harangue
Coupent la guimbarde aux plus forts.
=L. TESTEAU=, _Le Tapageur_.
GUINAL, _m._ (thieves’), _usurer_; _Jew_; “sheney, Ikey, or mouchey.”
Termed also “youtre, frisé, pied-plat.” Le grand ----, _Mont de Piété,
or government pawnbroking establishment_. (Rag-pickers’) Guinal,
_wholesale rag-dealer_.
GUINALISER (thieves’), _to be a usurer_; _to pawn_. It had formerly the
signification of _to circumcise_.
GUINCHE, _f._ (popular), _low dancing saloon in the suburbs, or low
wine-shop_.
A la porte de cette guinche, un municipal se dressait sur
ses ergots de cuir.--=HUYSMANS=, _Les Sœurs Vatard_.
GUINCHER (popular), _to dance_. Se ----, _to dress oneself hurriedly
and badly_.
GUINCHEUR, _m._ (popular), _frequenter of dancing saloons called_
“guinches.”
GUINDAL, _m._ (popular), _glass_. Siffler le ----, _to drink_, “to wet
one’s whistle,” or “to moisten one’s chaffer.” See RINCER.
GUINGUETTE, _f._ (obsolete), _fast girl_.
Il faudra que je m’en retourne à pied comme une guinguette
qui vient de souper en ville.--_Le Ballet des XXIV. heures._
Also _low restaurant_.
Ça doit s’manger, la levrette.
Si j’en pince une à huis clos ...
J’la f’rai cuire à ma guinguette.
J’t’en fich’rai, moi, des pal’tots!
=DE CHATILLON=, _Poésies_.
GUIRLANDE, _f._ (thieves’), _chain which secures two convicts together_.
On appelle cette chaîne guirlande, parceque, remontant
du pied à la ceinture, où elle est fixée, elle retombe
en décrivant un demi-cercle, dont l’autre extrémité est
rattachée à la ceinture du camarade de chaîne.
--=M. CHRISTOPHE.=
GUITARE, _f._ (familiar and popular), _head_, or “nut;” _monotonous
saying_; _well-worn platitude_. Jouer de la ----, _to be monotonous_.
Avoir une sauterelle dans la ----, _to be cracked_, “to have a tile
loose,” or “a bee in one’s bonnet.” For the list of synonymous
expressions see AVOIR.
GWAMMEL (Breton cant), _woman_; _mother_.
GWILLOIK (Breton cant), _wolf_.
GY, or JASPIN (thieves’), _yes_, or “usher.” Michel says: “J’estime
que _gy_ n’est autre chose que le _j_, première lettre d’_ita_, qui
remplaçait ce mot latin dans certains actes de procédure.”
Quoi, tu veux rentiffer? Gy?--=RICHEPIN.= (_What, you wish
to go home? Yes?_)
H
HABILLÉ DE SOIE, _m._ (popular), _an elegant term for a pig_, “sow’s
baby,” or, in the words of Irish peasants, “the gintleman that pays the
rint.”
HABILLER (popular), quelqu’un de taffetas, _to say ill-natured things
of one_, _to_ “backbite” _him_, _to reprimand_, _to slander_, _to
scold_, or “bully-rag.”
C’est moi qui vous l’a habillé de taffetas noir.
--=A. DALÈS=, _La Mère l’Anecdote, Chansonnette_.
S’---- de sapin, _to die_. See PIPE. S’---- en sauvage, _to strip
oneself naked_, _to strip to the_ “buff,” so as to be “in one’s
birthday suit.”
HABIN, HAPPIN, HUBIN, _m._ (old cant), _dog_, or “tyke;” ---- ergamé,
or engamé, _rabid dog_.
Ils trollent cette graisse dans leur gueulard, en une
corne, et quand les hubins la sentent, ils ne leur
disent rien, au contraire, ils font fête à ceux qui la
trollent.--_Le Jargon de l’Argot._
A dog is now called by thieves “tambour, alarmiste.”
HABINER (thieves’), _to bite_.
HABIT, _m._ (popular), noir, _gentleman_, or “swell;” ---- rouge, _an
Englishman_.
Les habits rouges voulaient danser,
Mais nous les avons fait sauter
Vivent les Sans-culottes.
=MAURICAULT.=
Etre ---- noir, _to be simple-minded_, _easily duped_, _to be a_
“flat.” (Thieves’) Un ---- vert, _an official of the “octroi,” or
office at the gates of a town for the levying of dues on goods which
are brought in from the outside_.
C’était de l’un de ces fossés,... que les contrebandiers,
au nez et à la barbe des habits verts, faisaient descendre
la nuit, dans les souterrains, leurs marchandises pour les
porter en ville et les affranchir de l’octroi.--_Mémoires
de Monsieur Claude._
HABITANTS, _m. pl._ (popular), _lice_, “grey-backed un’s.”
HABITONGUE, _f._ (thieves’), for habitude, _habit_.
HACHER DE LA PAILLE (popular), _to murder the French language_. The
English have the corresponding expression, “to murder the Queen’s
English.” Also _to talk in German_.
HALEINE, _f._ (familiar), à la Domitien, cruelle, or homicide,
_offensive breath_. According to the _Dict. Comique_ it used to be
said of a man troubled with that incommodity: Il serait bon trompette,
parcequ’il a l’haleine forte. (Popular) Respirer l’---- de quelqu’un,
_to get at one’s secrets_, “to pump” _one_.
HALÈNES, or ALÈNES, _f. pl._ (thieves’), _thieves’ implements_, or
“jilts.” Alène signifies properly _shoe-maker’s awl_.
HALER SUR SA POCHE (sailors’), _to pay_, “to shell out.” Haler,
properly _to haul_, _to tow_.
HALLE, _f._ (popular), aux croûtes, _stomach_, or “bread-basket.” Also
_baker’s shop_. La ---- aux draps, _the bed_, “doss, or bug-walk,” and
formerly “cloth-market,” an expression used by Swift in his _Polite
Conversation_:--
Miss, your slave; I hope your early rising will do you no
harm; I find you are but just out of the cloth-market.
(Journalists’) La ---- au son, _the Paris Conservatoire de Musique, or
national music and dramatic academy_. (Bullies’) Un barbise de la ----
aux copeaux, _a bully whose paramour brings him in but scanty profits,
whose “business” is slack_.
HALLEBARDE, _f._ (popular), _tall, badly dressed woman_, a “gawky guy.”
HALOT, _m._ (popular), _box on the ear_, “smack on the chops.”
HALOTER QUELQU’UN (thieves’), _to box one’s ears_, “to smack one’s
chops;” _to ply the bellows_.
HALOTEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _one who uses bellows_; _one who blows_.
HALOTIN, _m._ (thieves’), _bellows_. From haleter, _to pant_.
HANCHER (popular), se ----, _to put on a jaunty look_; _to take up an
arrogant position_, _to be_ “on the high jinks,” or to “look big.”
HANE, _f._ (thieves’), _purse_, “skin,” or “poge.” Termed also “henne,
bouchon, morlingue, mornif.”
Il va comme la tramontane,
Après avoir cassé la hanne
De ce grand né qui prend le soin
De lui donner chasse de loin.
_L’Embarras de la foire de Beaucaire._
Casser la ---- à quelqu’un, _to steal someone’s purse_, “to buz a skin.”
HANNETON, _m._ (familiar), _monomania_. Avoir un ---- dans le plafond,
_to be cracked_, or “to have a bee in one’s bonnet.” See AVOIR. Saoul
comme un ----, _completely drunk_, “as drunk as Davy’s sow.”
“Davy’s sow.” The origin of this expression, according to Davies’
_Supplementary English Glossary_, is the following:--“David Lloyd, a
Welshman, had a sow with six legs; on one occasion he brought some
friends and asked them whether they had ever seen a sow like that, not
knowing that in his absence his drunken wife had turned out the animal,
and gone to lie down in the sty. One of the party observed that it was
the drunkest sow he had ever beheld.” Other synonymous expressions are,
“drunk as a drum, to be a wheelbarrow, sow-drunk, drunk as a fish, as a
lord, as a piper, as a fiddler, as a rat.”
HANNETONNER (familiar), _to have a hobby verging on monomania_.
HAPPER LE TAILLIS (thieves’), _to flee_, “to guy.” See PATATROT.
Compare with the expression, now obsolete, gagner le taillis, which
has the same signification.
Happons le taillis, on crie au vinaigre sur
nouzailles.--_Le Jargon de l’Argot._ (_They are_ “whiddling
beef,” _and we must_ “guy.”)
HAPPIN. See HABIN.
HAPPINER. See HABINER.
HARAUDER (popular), quelqu’un (obsolete), _to cry out after one_; _to
pursue one with insults_.
HARDI, _adj._ (popular), à la soupe _is said of one who is more ready
to eat than to fight_. Hardi! _courage!_ _with a will!_ _go it!_
HARENG, _m._ (thieves’), faire des yeux de ---- à quelqu’un, _to put
out one’s eyes_. (Printers’) Harengs, _name given by printers to
fellow-workers who do but little work_.
HARENG-SAUR, _m._ (popular), _gendarme_; _a member of the Société de
Saint-Vincent de Paul, a religious association_. (Roughs’) Piquer son
pas de ----, _to dance_.
HARIADAN BARBEROUSSE (thieves’), _Jesus Christ_.
Il rigolait malgré le sanglier qui voulait lui faire
becqueter Hariadan Barberousse.--=VIDOCQ.=
HARICANDER (popular), _to find fault with one about trifles_.
HARICOT, _m._ (popular), _body_. Cavaler, or courir sur le ----, _to
annoy_, _to bore one_, “to spur” _one_. (Thieves’) Un ---- vert, _a
clumsy thief_, _or one_ “not up to slum.” Se laver les haricots, _to
be transported_, or “lagged.” (Familiar) Hôtel des haricots, _formerly
the prison for undisciplined national guards_, the staple food for
prisoners there being haricot beans.
HARICOTEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _executioner_. Termed “Rouart” in the
sixteenth century, that is, _one who breaks criminals on the wheel_.
HARMONARÈS, _m._ (thieves’), _noise_, or “row.” Si le gonsalès fait de
l’harmonarès il faut le balancarguer dans la vassarès, _if the fellow
makes any noise we’ll pitch him into the water_.
HARMONIE, _f._ (popular), faire de l’----, _to make a noise_, “to kick
up a row.”
HARNAIS, _m._ (thieves’), _cards that have been tampered with_, or
“stocked broads;” _clothes_, or “clobber;” ---- de grive, _military
uniform_. Laver les ----, _to sell stolen clothes_, “to do clobber at a
fence’s.”
HARPE, _f._ (general), jouer de la ----, _to slily take liberties with
a woman by stroking her dress_, as Tartuffe did when pretending to
ascertain the softness of Elmire’s dress. The expression is old; it is
to be met with in the _Dict. Comique_.
Jouer de la harpe signifie jouer des mains auprès d’une
femme, la patiner, lui toucher la nature, la farfouiller,
la clitoriser, la chatouiller avec les doigts.
--=J. LE ROUX=, _Dictionnaire Comique_.
(Thieves’) Harpe, _prison-grated window_. Jouer de la ----, _to be in
prison_, or “in quod.” Pincer de la ----, _to put oneself at a window_.
HARPER (popular), _to catch_, “to nab;” _to seize_, “to grab.”
HARPIONS, _m. pl._ (popular and thieves’), _feet_, or “dew-beaters;”
_hands_, or “dukes.” From the old word harpier, concerning which the
_Dictionnaire Comique_ says:--
Harpier. Pour voler ou friponner impunément, prendre ou
enlever par force, comme les harpies.
HARPONNER (popular), _to seize_, “to grab;” ---- tocquardement, _to lay
rough hands on_; _to give one a shaking_.
HASARD! or H! (printers’), ironical exclamation meaning _that happens
by chance, of course!_
HAÜS, or AÜS, _m._ (shopmens’), _appellation applied by shopmen to a
person who, after much bargaining, leaves without purchasing anything_.
HAUSSE-COL, _m._ (military), _cartridge-box_. The expression has become
obsolete.
HAUSSIER, _m._ (familiar), a “bull,” that is, _one who agrees to
purchase stock at a future day, at a stated price, but who simply
speculates for a rise in public securities to render the transaction
a profitable one_. Should stocks fall, the “bull” is then called upon
to pay the difference. The “bear” is the opposite of the “bull,” the
former selling, the latter purchasing--the one operating for a _fall_,
the other for a _rise_. They are respectively called “liebhaler” in
Berlin, and “contremine” in Vienna.
HAUSSMANNISATION, _f._ See below.
HAUSSMANNISER (familiar), _to pull down houses wholesale_, after the
fashion of M. Haussmann, a Prefect of the Seine under the Third Empire,
who laid low many of the old houses of Paris, and opened some broad
passages in the city. Corresponds in some degree to “boycott.”
HAUT-DE-TIRE, _m._ (thieves’), _breeches_, “hams, kicks, sit-upons.”
HAUTE, _f. and adj._ (general), for haute société, _the higher class of
any social stratum_, “pink.”
Il y a lorette et lorette. Mademoiselle de Saint-Pharamond
était de la haute.--=P. FÉVAL.=
La ---- bicherie, _higher class of cocottes_, _the world of_
“demi-reps.” Un escarpe de la ----, _a swindler moving in good
society_. La ---- pègre, _swell mob_, and, used ironically, _good
society_. Un restaurant de la ----, _a fashionable restaurant_, _a_
“swell” _restaurant_.
Si nous ne soupons pas dans la haute, je ne sais guère où
nous irons à cette heure-ci.--=G. DE NERVAL.=
HAUTOCHER (thieves’), _to ascend_; _to rise_.
HAUT-TEMPS, _m._ (thieves’), for autan, _loft_.
HAVRE, or GRAND HAVRE, _m._ (thieves’), _God_. Literally _the harbour_,
_great harbour_. Le ---- garde mézière, _God protect me_.
HEOL AR BLEI (Breton cant), _the moon_.
HERBE, _f._ (popular), à grimper, _fine bosoms or shoulders_. This
phrase is obsolete; ---- à la vache, _clubs of cards_.
Quinte mangeuse portant son point dans l’herbe à la
vache.--=ZOLA=, _L’Assommoir_.
Herbe sainte, _absinthe_. To all appearance this is a corruption of
absinthe.
HERPLIS, _m._ (thieves’), _farthing_. Sans un herplis dans ma
fouillouse, _without a farthing in my pocket_.
HERR, _m._ (general), a man of importance, one of position or talent, a
“swell.”
HERSE, _f._ (theatrical), _lighting apparatus on the sides of the
stage which illuminates those parts which receive no light from the
chandelier_.
HERZ, or HERS, _m._ (thieves’), _master_, or “boss;” _gentleman_, or
“nib-cove.” From the German herr.
HIGH-BICHERY, _f._ (familiar), _the world of fashionable cocottes_.
Quelque superbe créature de la high-bichery qui traîne son
domino à queue avec les airs souverains d’une marquise
d’autrefois.--=P. MAHALIN.=
HIRONDEAU, _m._ (tailors’), _journeyman tailor who shifts from one
employer to another_. An allusion to the swallow, a migratory bird.
HIRONDELLE, _f._ (familiar), _penny boat plying on the Seine_;
(popular) _commercial traveller_; _journeyman tailor from the country
temporarily established in Paris_; _hackney coachman_; ---- d’hiver,
_retailer of roasted chestnuts_; ---- de pont, _vagrant who seeks a
shelter at night under the arches of bridges_; ---- du bâtiment, _mason
from the country who comes yearly to work in Paris_. (Thieves’) Une
----, _variety of vagabond_.
Les Hirondelles, les Romanichels hantaient, comme les
taupes, l’intérieur de leurs souterrains insondables.
Romanichels et Hirondelles venaient y dormir, souper et
méditer leurs crimes.--_Mémoires de Monsieur Claude._
Une ---- de potence, _a gendarme_ (obsolete).
HISSER (popular), _to give a whistle call_; ---- un gandin. See GANDIN.
HISTOIRES, _f. pl._ (general), _menses_. Termed also “affaires,
cardinales, anglais.”
HOMARD, _m._ (popular), _doorkeeper, or servant in red livery_.
(Military) _spahis_. The spahis, called also cavaliers rouges, are a
crack corps of Arab cavalry commanded by French officers. There are now
four regiments of spahis doing duty in Algeria or in Tonkin.
HOMICIDE, _m._ See HALEINE.
HOMME, _m._ (familiar), au sac, _rich man_, _one who is_ “well
ballasted.” Un ---- affiche, _a_ “sandwich” _man_, that is, a man
bearing a back-and-front advertising board. Avoir son jeune ----, _to
be drunk_, or “tight.” See POMPETTE. (Thieves’) Un ---- de lettres,
_forger_: ---- de peine, _old offender_, “jail-bird.” (Printers’) Homme
de bois, _workman who repairs wooden fixtures of formes in a printing
shop_.
HOMME DE LETTRES, or SINGE, _m._ (printers’), _compositor_.
Le compositeur est un bipède auquel on donne la
dénomination de “singe.”... Pour vous éblouir il triture
une “matière pleine” de mots équivoques: “commandite,
bordereau, banque, impositions” et cela avec la gravité
d’une “Minerve.” Fier du rang qu’il occupe dans
l’imprimerie, ce chevalier du “composteur” s’intitule
“homme de lettres,” mais c’est un “faux titre” qu’il a
pris dans sa “galée,” car de tous les ouvrages auxquels il
a mis des “signatures” et qu’il prétend avoir “composés,”
il lui serait difficile de “justifier” une ligne, &c.
&c.--_Déclaration d’amour d’un imprimeur typographe à une
jeune brocheuse_, 1886.
HOMMELETTE, _m._ (popular), _man devoid of energy_, “sappy.”
HONNÊTE, _m._ (thieves’), _the spring_.
HONTEUSE, _f._, être en ----. See LESBIEN.
HÔPITAL, _m._ (thieves’), _prison_, or “stir.” See MOTTE. A thief in
prison is said to be “malade,” and when liberated he is, of course,
“guéri.” (Popular) Goujon d’----, _leech_.
HORIZONTALE, _f._ (familiar), _prostitute_, or “mot;” ---- de grande
marque, _fashionable cocotte_, or “pretty horse-breaker.” For list of
over one hundred and thirty synonyms, see GADOUE.
HORLOGER, _m._ (popular), avoir sa montre chez l’----, _to have one’s
watch at the pawnbroker’s_, “in lug,” or “up the spout.”
HORREURS, _f. pl._ (popular), _broad talk_, or “blue talk.” Dire des
----, _to talk_ “smut.” Faire des ----, _to take liberties with women_,
“to fiddle,” or “to slewther,” as the Irish have it.
HOSTO, or AUSTO (soldiers’ and thieves’), _prison_, or “stir,” see
MOTTE; (popular) _house_, or “crib.”
HÔTEL, _m._ (popular), de la modestie, _poor lodgings_; ---- des
haricots, _prison_, or “jug.” See MOTTE. Coucher à l’---- de la belle
étoile, _to sleep in the open air, on mother Earth_, or “to skipper it.”
HOTTERIAU, HOTTERIOT, _m._ (popular), _rag-picker_, or “tot-picker.”
From hotte, _wicker basket_.
HOUBLON, _m._ (popular), _tea_.
HOUPE DENTELÉE, _f._ (freemasons’), _ties of brotherhood_.
HOUSETTE, _f._ (thieves’), _boot_, or “daisy root.” Traîne-cul-les
housettes, a _tatterdemalion_.
HOUSSINE, _f._ (thieves’), Jean de l’----, _stick_; _bludgeon_.