RATA, _m._ (general), _kind of stew_.
Le rata diminutif de ratatouille ... se compose de pommes
de terre ... avec assaisonnement d’un morceau de lard ...
en société d’une botte d’oignons.--=DUBOIS DE GENNES.=
La mère Nassau lui vociféra une longue kyrielle d’injures
dont une partie sans doute lui avait été adressée à
elle-même le jour où elle fut surprise crachant dans le
rata.--=H. FRANCE=, _La Pucelle de Tebessa_.
Rata, used in a figurative sense, signifies _a coarse, unmeaning
article, or literary production_.
Vous avez lu la lettre si digne de ----? Xau, poli,
comme un marbre, a dû faire un signe d’assentiment, mais
il est trop occupé pour absorber ce rata soi-disant
naturaliste.--_Gil Blas_, 1887.
RATACONNICULER (obsolete), _to cobble_. Referred also to the carnal act.
RATAFIA DE GRENOUILLE, _m._ (popular), _water_. Called, in the English
slang, “Adam’s ale,” and the old term “fish broth,” as appears from the
following:--
The churlish frampold waves gave him his belly-full of
fish-broath.--=NASHE=, _Lenten Stuff_.
RATAPIAULE, _f._ (popular), _thrashing_, “walloping.”
RATAPOIL, _m._ (familiar), _epithet applied to old soldiers of the
First Empire_, and generally _to Bonapartists_. Literally rat à poil.
RATATOUILLE, _f._ (familiar and popular), flanquer une ----, _to
thrash_. See VOIE.
RATEAU, _m._ (popular), _police officer_. (Military) Faire son ----,
_to remain some time with the corps, as a punishment, at the expiration
of the twenty-eight days’ yearly service as a réserviste_.
RATIBOISÉ, _adj._ (general), _done for_; _ruined_, “gone to smash.”
J’ai fait faillite comme un vrai commerçant; ratiboisé ma
chère.--=HUYSMANS.=
RATIBOISER (general), _to take_; _to steal_, “to prig.” See GRINCHIR.
Termed in South Africa, “to jump.” An officer to whom a settler had
lent a candlestick was recommended not to allow it to be “jumped,”
mysterious words which at first were to him quite unintelligible. In
the English jargon, “to jump” a man is to rob him with violence.
RATICHE, _f._ (popular and thieves’), _church_. Blaireau de ----, _holy
water brush or sprinkler_.
RATICHON, _m._ (popular and thieves’), _priest_. Literally ratissé,
rasé, alluding to his shaven face and crown. In old English cant, “rat,
patrico.” Concerning the latter word see SANGLIER. Serpillière de ----,
_priest’s cassock_.
J’avais de plus beaux sentiments sous mes guenilles qu’il
n’y en a sous une serpillière de ratichon.--=V. HUGO.=
Un ---- de cambrouse, _a village priest_.
J’ai moi-même une affaire avec deux amis de collège (prison) chez
un particulier qui va tous les dimanches passer la journée chez un
ratichon de cambrouse (curé de campagne).--=CANLER.=
Un ----, _a comb_.
RATICHONNER (popular), _to comb one’s hair_.
RATICHONNIÈRE, _f._ (popular and thieves’), _cloister, or any religious
community_.
RATIER, _m._ (tailors’), _journeyman tailor who does night-work at
home_.
RATION DE LA RAMÉE, _f._ (thieves’), _prison food_.
RATISSE, _f._ (thieves’ and roughs’), refiler une ----, _to thrash_.
See VOIE for synonyms.
RATISSÉ, _adj._ (popular), _exhausted_, “gruelled.”
R’tourner à pied, fallait pas y penser, j’étais ratissé et
courbaturé d’m’être balladé dans la foire.--=G. FRISON=,
_Les Aventures du Colonel Ronchonot_.
RATISSER (popular), en ---- à quelqu’un, _to mock_, _to laugh at one_.
Je t’en ratisse! _a fig for you!_ Se faire ---- la couenne, _to get
thrashed_; _to get oneself shaved_. (Familiar) Se faire ----, _to lose
all one’s money at a game_, _to have_ “blewed it.”
Vous lui avez même emprunté cinq louis ... quand vous avez
été ratissé au baccarat.--J’ai été ratissé?--Raiguisé si
vous voulez.--=P. MAHALIN.=
RATISSEUSE DE COLABRES, _f._ (thieves’), _guillotine_. Colabre is the
cant for _neck_.
RATON, _m._ (thieves’), _very young thief_, “little snakesman,” see
RAT; (Breton cant) _priest_.
RATTRAPAGE, _m._ (printers’), _piece of composition which forms the
complement of another_.
RAVAGE, _m._ (popular), _sundry pieces of metal found in the gutters or
on the banks of the river_.
RAVAGER (thieves’), _to steal linen from a lavoir public_, _or
washerwoman’s punt_.
RAVAGEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _thief who exercises his industry on
washerwomen’s punts established on the banks of the Seine_; (popular)
_man who drags the banks of the river, or the gutters, in the hope
of finding lumps of metal or other articles_, _a kind of_ “mudlark.”
Concerning the latter term, the _Slang Dictionary_ says a mudlark is a
man or woman who, with clothes tucked above the knee, grovels through
the mud on the banks of the Thames, when the tide is low, for silver
or pewter spoons, old bottles, pieces of iron, coal, or any article of
the least value, deposited by the retiring tide, either from passing
ships or the sewers.
RAVAUDAGE, _m._ (popular), faire du ----, _to make love to several
girls at a time, so as not to remain_ “in the cold.”
RAVERTA, _m._ (Jewish tradesmen’s), _servant_.
RAVESCOT, _m._ (obsolete), _venereal act_.
RAVIGNOLÉ, _m._ (thieves’), _new offence_.
RAVINE, _f._ (popular), _wound_; _scar_.
RAVINÉ, _adj._ (familiar), _the worse for wear_. Des dents ravinées,
_bad teeth_.
RAYON, _m._ (popular), sur l’œil, _black eye_, “mouse.” (Thieves’)
Rayon de miel, _lace_, or “driz.”
RAZE, or RAZI, _m._ (thieves’), _priest_, _parson_, “devil-dodger;”
---- pour l’af, _actor_, “cackling cove, or faker.”
RÉAC, _m._ (familiar and popular), _Conservative_.
C’était à la Salamandre ou au Sacré Bock que se tenaient
les inspecteurs masqués de la Commune ... Vermorel y était
traité de bourgeois, Rochefort, de réac.--_Mémoires de
Monsieur Claude._
RÉAFFURER (thieves’), _to win back_.
REBÂTIR (thieves’), un pante, _to kill a man_, “to give one his gruel,
to quash.” Also “to hush.” You know, if I wished to nose (_to peach_),
I could have you twisted (_hanged_); not to mention anything about the
cull (_man_) that was hushed for his reader (_pocket-book_).
RÉBECCA, _f._ (popular), _impudent girl with a saucy tongue_, a
“sauce-box, or imperence.”
REBECQUAT, _m._ (thieves’ and roughs’), _insolence_; _resistance_. Pas
de ---- ou bien je t’encaisse, _don’t show your teeth, else I’ll give
you a thrashing_.
REBECTAGE, _m._ (thieves’), _medicine_; _Cour de cassation_. Se cavaler
au ----, _to appeal for the quashing of a judgment_.
REBECTER (popular), se ----, _to get reconciled_.
REBECTEUR, _m._ (popular), _doctor_, “pill-box;” _surgeon_, “sawbones.”
REBÉQUETER (popular), _to repeat_; _to ruminate_.
REBIFFE, _f._ (thieves’), _revolt_; _revenge_; ---- au truc, _repeating
an offence_. Faire de la ----, _to oppose resistance_.
REBIFFER (popular and thieves’), _to begin again_; ---- au truc, _to
return to one’s old ways_, _to be at the_ “old game” _again_; _to do
anything again_.
“Tiens, mon petit, rebiffe au truc; c’est moi qui verse.”
Elle rapporte un nouveau rafraîchissement d’absinthe au
chanteur.--=LOUISE MICHEL.=
REBOMBER (familiar), se ---- le torse, _to recover one’s spent energy
by taking refreshment_.
REBONDIR (popular), _to turn out of doors_, _to expel_. Envoyer ----,
_to turn out_, _to send to the deuce_.
REBONNETAGE, _m._ (popular), _reconciliation_; (thieves’) _flattery_,
“soft sawder.”
REBONNETER (popular and thieves’), _to flatter_. The word bonneter was
formerly used with nearly the same signification, and the English had a
similar expression, “to bonnet,” used by Shakespeare:--
He hath deserved worthily of his country; and his ascent
is not by such easy degrees as those who having been
supple and courteous to the people, bonneted, without any
further deed to heave them at all into their estimation and
report.--_Coriolanus._
Rebonneter pour l’af, _to give ironical praise_. Se ----, _to console
oneself_. Also _to be of better behaviour_, _to turn over a new leaf_.
REBONNETEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _confessor_.
Si ce que dit le rebonneteur (confesseur) n’est pas de la
blague, un jour nous nous retrouverons là-bas.--=VIDOCQ.=
REBONNIR (thieves’), _to say again_.
REBOUCLER (thieves’), _to re-imprison_.
REBOUIS, _adj. and m._ (thieves’), _dead_, said of one who has been
“put to bed with a shovel;” _corpse_, “cold meat, or pig;” _shoe_,
“trotter-case.” English thieves call cleaning their boots “japanning
their trotter-cases.”
REBOUISER (thieves’), _to kill_, “to give one his gruel,” see
REFROIDIR; _to patch up a shoe_. Rabelais termed this “rataconniculer,”
and also uses the word with another signification, as appears from the
following:--
Et si personne les blasme de soi faire rataconniculer ainsi
sus leur grosse, vu que les bestes sus leurs ventrées
n’endurent jamais le masle masculant, elles respondront que
ce sont bestes, mais elles sont femmes.--_Gargantua._
Also _to notice_, _to gaze on_.
Faut pas blaguer, le treppe est batte;
Dans c’taudion i’s’trouve des rupins.
Si queuq’s gonziers traînent la savate,
J’en ai r’bouisé qu’on d’s escarpins.
_Chanson de l’Assommoir._
REBOUISEUR, _m._ (popular), _cobbler_, in old French “taconneur;” _old
clothes man who repairs second-hand clothes before selling them_.
REBOURS, _m._ (roughs’), _moving of one’s furniture on the sly_,
“shooting the moon.”
RECALER (artists’), _to correct_. (Popular) Se ----, _to recover one’s
strength_, and generally _to improve one’s outward appearance_.
Dédèle s’r’cale les joues et Trutru r’prend des forces pour
masser d’plus belle.--_Le Cri du Peuple._
Also _to better one’s position_.
RECARRELURE, _f._ (popular), _meal_.
RECARRER (popular), se ----, _to strut_.
RÉCENT, _adj._ (popular), avoir l’air ----, _to walk steadily though
drunk_.
RECEVOIR (popular), la pelle au cul, _to be dismissed from one’s
employment_, “to get the sack;” (military) ---- son décompte, _to die_,
“to lose the number of one’s mess.”
RECHÂSSER (popular), _to survey attentively_, “to stag;” _to see_. From
châsse, _eye_.
RÉCHAUFFANTE, _f._ (thieves’), _wig_, “periwinkle;” (military) _great
coat_.
RÉCHAUFFER (popular), _to annoy_, _to bore_.
RÈCHE, _m._ (popular), _a sou_.
RÉCIDIVISTE, _m._ (familiar), _old offender_. According to a new
law, repeating a certain specified offence makes one liable to be
transported for life.
REÇOIT-TOUT, _m._ (popular), _chamber-pot_, or “jerry.”
RECOLLARDÉ, _adj._ (thieves’), _caught again_.
RECOLLER (popular), _to be convalescent_. Se ----, _to have a
reconciliation with a woman, and cohabit with her again_.
RECONDUIRE (theatrical), _to hiss_, “to goose, or to give the big
bird;” (popular) ---- quelqu’un, or faire la conduite à quelqu’un, _to
thrash one_, “to wollop.” (Military) Se faire ----, _to be compelled to
retreat in hot haste_.
RECONNAISSANCE, _f._ (printers’), _thin flat ruler of metal or wood
used by printers_.
RECONNEBLER (thieves’), _to recognize_.
C’est bon, je vois bien que je suis reconneblé (reconnu) et
qu’il n’y a pas moyen d’aller à Niort (de nier).--=CANLER.=
RECONOBRER (thieves’), _to recognize_. Me reconobres-tu pas? _Don’t you
know me again?_
Il faut d’abord défrimousser ces gaillards-là de manière à
ce qu’ils ne soient pas reconobrés.--=VIDOCQ.= (_We must at
first disfigure these here fellows, so that they may not be
known._)
RECOQUER (popular), se ----, _to recover one’s strength_; _to dress
oneself in new attire_. From coque, _hull_.
RECORDÉ, _adj._ (thieves’), _killed_, “hushed.”
RECORDER (thieves’), _to warn one of some impending danger_; _to kill
one_, “to quash, to hush.” Se ----, _to plot_, _to concert together_.
RECOURIR À L’ÉMÉTIQUE (thieves’), _to get forged bills discounted_.
RECUIT, _adj._ (popular), _ruined again_.
RÉCURER (popular), la casserole, or se ----, _to take a purgative_. Se
faire ----, _to be under treatment for syphilis_.
REDAM, _m._ (thieves’), _pardon_. From rédemption.
REDIN, _m._ (thieves’), _purse_, “skin.” The word has the same
signification in the Italian jargon, and comes from retino, _small
net_. Hence reticule, a _lady’s bag_, corrupted into ridicule.
REDOUBLEMENT, _m._ (thieves’), de fièvre, _fresh charge brought
against a prisoner who is being tried for an offence_; ---- de fièvre
cérébrale, _fresh charge against a prisoner who is being tried for
murder_.
Pour peu que des parrains ne viennent pas leur coquer
un redoublement de fièvre cérébrale, ma largue et mes
gosselines se tireront de ce mauvais pas.--=VIDOCQ.=
REDOUILLER (popular), _to push back_; _to repel_; _to ill-treat_, “to
manhandle.”
REDRESSE, _f._ (thieves’), être à la ----, _to be cunning_, _knowing_,
“downy.”
I am ... we all are, down to the dog. And he’s the downiest
one of the lot--=CH. DICKENS.=
Mec à la ----. See MEC. Chevalier de la ----, _professional parasite_,
_spunger_, “quiller.”
REDRESSEUR, _m._ (obsolete), _thief_, _pickpocket_, “fogle-hunter.” In
old English cant, “foyster.”
REDRESSEUSE, _f._ (obsolete), _prostitute and thief_, “mollisher.”
RÉDUIT, _m._ (thieves’), _purse_, “skin.”
RÉEMBALLER (popular), _to imprison afresh_.
REFAIRE (familiar and popular), _to dupe_, “to do.”
Z... un autre journaliste, après avoir longtemps bohémisé,
carotté, refait tous ses camarades.--=A. SIRVEN.=
Refaire au même, _to pay back in the same coin_, _to give a Roland for
an Oliver_. Se ----, _to recoup one’s losses at a game_. (Popular)
Refaire dans le dur, _to dupe_, “to bilk.” Se ---- le torse, _to have
refreshment_. (Thieves’) Se ---- de sorgue, _to have supper_.
REFAIT, _adj._ (general), être ----, _to be duped_, or “done.”
La voiture remonte péniblement la chaussée. Le cocher,
qu’on a pris le matin et qui a peur d’être refait, juronne
entre ses dents.--=P. MAHALIN.=
(Thieves’) Etre ---- sans donjon, _to be apprehended again as a rogue
and vagabond_.
REFAITE, _f._ (thieves’), _meal_; ---- du matois, _breakfast_; ---- de
jorne, _dinner_; ---- de côni, _last sacraments of the church_; ---- du
séchoir, _meal after a funeral_; ---- de sorgue, _supper_.
Je vous dis que lorsque j’ai quitté le tapis, il allait
achever sa refaite de sorgue et qu’il venait de donner
l’ordre de seller son gaye.--=VIDOCQ.=
REFAITER (thieves’), _to partake of a meal_.
REFAITIER, _m._ (thieves’), _master of a victualling house_, “boss of a
grubbing ken.”
REFFOLER (thieves’), _to steal by surprise_.
REFILÉ, _m._ (popular), aller au ----, _to confess_. Ne pas aller au
----, _to deny_.
REFILER (thieves’), _to restore_; _to give_, “donnez.”
Au clair de la luisante,
Mon ami Pierrot,
Refile-moi ta griffonnante,
Pour broder un mot.
Ma camouche est chtourbe,
Je n’ai plus de rif;
Déboucle-moi ta lourde
Pour l’amour du Mec.
_Au Clair de la Lune en Argot._
Refiler, _to pass from one person to another_, “to sling;” _to pass
on to a confederate by throwing_, “to ding;” ---- un pante, _to dog
a man_, “to pipe;” (popular) ---- des beignes, _to strike one on the
face_, “to fetch one a wipe in the mug;” ---- une ratisse, _to thrash_,
“to wallop;” ---- une poussée, _to hustle_, “to shove;” ---- la pâtée,
_to feed_. S’en ---- sous le tube, _to take a pinch of snuff_.
REFONDANTE, _f._ (thieves’), _lucifer match_, “spunk.”
REFOULER (popular), _to refuse_; _to hesitate_; ---- au travail,
_to leave off working_; ---- à Bondy, _to rudely send one about his
business_. It is to Bondy that the contents of cesspools are conveyed.
RÉFRACTAIRE, _m._ (familiar), _more or less talented man who will not
bend to the fashion or ideas of the day_.
REFROIDI, _m. and adj._ (thieves’), _corpse_, “cold meat;” _dead_,
“easy.”
REFROIDIR (thieves’), _to kill_.
Les chiens bourrés de boulettes, étaient morts. J’ai
refroidi les deux femmes.--=BALZAC.=
Refroidir à la capahut, _to kill an accomplice for the purpose of
robbing him of his share of booty_. From the name of a celebrated
bandit, the head of a large gang of murderers named “chauffeurs,” who
spread terror towards the year III. of the Republic, in the vicinity
of Paris. The different modes of taking life are expressed thus:
“chouriner, or suriner, estourbir, scionner, buter, basourdir, faire
un machabée, faire flotter, crever la paillasse, laver son linge dans
la saignante, dévisser le trognon, faire suer un chêne, or faire suer
le chêne coupé, capahuter, décrocher, descendre, ébasir, endormir,
couper le sifflet, watriniser, entailler, entonner, estrangouiller,
tortiller la vis, tourlourer, terrer, cônir, expédier, faire, faire la
grande soulasse, rebâtir, sauter à la capahut, sonner, lingrer, envoyer
ad patres, démolir, moucher le quinquet, saigner, sabler, tortiller
le gaviot, faire banque, érailler, escarper, suager, faire le pante
au machabée;” in the English slang, “to settle his hash, to cook his
goose, to give one his gruel, to quash, to hush.”
RÉGALER (popular), ses amis, _to take a purgative_; ---- son cochon,
_to treat oneself to a good dinner_, _to have a_ “tightener;” ---- son
suisse _is said of two playing for drink, who win an equal number of
games_; (thieves’) ---- la veuve, _to set up the guillotine_.
REGARGARDE! (thieves’), _look!_ “nark!”
RÉGATTE, _f._ (rag-pickers’), _meat_.
REGATTER (rag-pickers’), _to eat_, “to grub.”
RÉGIMENT, _m._ (popular), des boules de Siam, _Sodomites_. S’engager
dans le ---- des cocus, _to marry_, “to get spliced.” (Military) Le
chien du ----, _the adjutant_.
REGINGLARD, _m._ (popular), _thin, sour wine_.
REGISTRE, _m._ (printers’), faire le ----, _to pour out the contents of
a bottle so that each has an equal share_.
RÉGLETTE, _f._ (printers’), arroser la ----, _to pay for one’s footing_.
RÉGLISSE. See JUS.
REGON, _m._ (thieves’), _debt_.
REGONSER (thieves’), _to dog_, “to pipe.”
REGOÛT, _m._ (thieves’), _unpleasantness_.
Il faut espérer que l’ouvrage de la chique aura été
maquillé sans regoût.--=VIDOCQ.=
Du ----, _uneasiness_; _remorse_; _fear_. Faire du ----, _to make
revelations_.
REGUICHER (thieves’), _to attack_.
V’là qu’on me tire par la jambe; j’me cavale, mais y
zétaient du monde, on me reguiche, je m’ai défendu et me
v’là.--=LOUISE MICHEL.=
RÉGUISÉ, or RAIGUISÉ, _adj._ (popular), être ----, _to be thrashed_;
_swindled_; _ruined_, or “smashed;” _to be deceived_, or “done;” _to be
sentenced to death_.
RÉGUISER, or RAIGUISER (popular), _to thrash_; _to ruin_.
REJACTER (thieves’), _to say again_.
RÉJOUISSANCE, _f._ (familiar), _bones placed into the scale by butchers
with the meat and charged as meat_. Une femme qui a plus de ---- que de
viande, _a bony, skinny woman_.
RELANCEUR DE PLEINS, _m._ (thieves’), _variety of card-sharpers_.
RELEVANTE, _f._ (thieves’), _mustard_.
RELÈVE, _f._ (popular), être à la ----, _to be in better circumstances_.
RELEVER (popular), la ----, or relever le chandelier, _to live on a
prostitute’s earnings_. From the practice of placing the fees of such
women under a candlestick.
RELEVEUR, _m._ (popular), de fumeuse, _blackguard who lives on a
prostitute’s earnings_, “pensioner.” See POISSON. (Thieves’) Releveur
de pésoche, _money collector_.
RELICHER (popular), _to toss down a glass of wine or liquor_; _to
kiss_. Se ----, or se ---- le morviau, _to kiss one another_.
RELIÉ, _adj._ (popular), _dressed_. Etre élégamment ----, _to sport
fine clothes_.
RELINGUE, _m._ (thieves’), _old offender_.
Il y avait là des relingues (récidivistes), allant voir ce
qui leur arriverait un jour ou l’autre.--=LOUISE MICHEL.=
RELINGUER (thieves’), _to stab repeatedly_.
RELIQUER (thieves’), _to say_.