RELUIRE DANS LE VENTRE (popular), _to make one’s mouth water_.
RELUIT, _m._ (thieves’), _day_, or “lightmans;” _eye_, or “ogle.” See
CHASSER.
RELUQUER (popular and thieves’), _to gaze_, “to stag;” _to look
attentively_, “to dick.” Le sergo nous reluque, _the policeman has
his eye on us_, “the bulky is dicking.” Reluquer une affaire, _to
contemplate a theft_.
Il y a deux ou trois affaires que je reluque, nous les
ferons ensemble.--=VIDOCQ.=
Les jours où il lansquine, il y a un tas de pantes à reluquer les
flûtes des gonzesses qui carguent leurs ballons. _When it is raining,
there are a lot of fellows who look at the legs of the girls who tuck
up their clothes._ The old French had relouquer and reluquer with the
same signification. The Norman patois has “louquer,” which reminds one
of the English to look.
RELUQUEUR, _m._ (popular), _one who plays the spy_, a “nose.”
RELUQUEUSE, _f._ (popular), _opera glass_.
REMAQUILLER (popular and thieves’), _to do again_.
REMBALLÉ, RETOQUÉ, or REQUILLÉ (students’), être ----, _to be
disqualified at an examination_, “to be spun, or ploughed.”
REMBARBE, or RANQUESSÉ, _m._ (thieves’), _rentier, that is, man of
independent means_.
REMBOURRER (familiar), se ---- le ventre, _to make a good meal_, “to
have a tightener.”
REMBROCABLE, _adj._ (thieves’), _perceptible_, _visible_.
REMBROCAGE DE PARRAIN, _m._ (thieves’), _act of bringing one into the
presence of a witness_.
REMBROCANT, _m._ (thieves’), _looking-glass_.
REMBROQUER (thieves’), _to recognize_.
RÊME, _m._ (thieves’), _one who scolds, who growls_, a “crib-biter.”
REMÈDE D’AMOUR, _m._ (popular), _ugly face_, or “knocker-face.”
REMERCIER SON BOULANGER (familiar and popular), _to die_, “to kick the
bucket.” For synonyms see PIPE.
_Beauvallet_, d’une voix tonnante.--Le pauvre homme!
comment, il a “claqué?”
_Arsène Houssaye._--Mon Dieu, oui, il a “dévissé son
billard,” comme on dit à la cour.
_Mademoiselle Augustine Brohan._--Vous vous trompez, mon
cher directeur.... A la cour de Napoléon III., on dit
maintenant: il a “remercié son boulanger.”--=P. AUDEBRAND.=
The above conversation, according to the author of _Petits Mémoires
d’une Stalle d’Orchestre_, took place at the Théâtre Français, of which
M. Arsène Houssaye was then the manager. To explain this invasion of
the Parisian jargon in the house of Molière, it must be said, that it
coincided with the publication of a decree by M. Achille Fould, then
Secretary of State. Being aware that the idiom of the hulks and gutter
was used to an alarming extent on the Parisian stage, his Excellency
had declared that the Government, declining to be an accomplice of
these literary misdemeanours, had prohibited the use of the degrading
lexicology, and had ordered a “commission de censure” (whose functions
are somewhat similar, in theatrical matters, to those of the Lord
Chamberlain in England) to taboo any play offering such enormities.
The injunction had been specially enforced with respect to the Théâtre
Français as being the official guardian of the purity of the French
language and the leading playhouse. But the offended comedians, in
retaliation, began to affect making use of the “langue verte.”
REMETTEZ DONC LE COUVERCLE (roughs’), _a polite invitation to one who
has an offensive breath to cease talking_.
REMISAGE, _m._ (thieves’), _place kept by a receiver of stolen
property, chiefly vehicles of every description_.
Dans les remisages ... vont s’engouffrer tous les camions,
voitures, carrioles volés, pendant que les chevaux s’en
vont au marché, et que les victimes sont déjà au fond de
l’eau!--_Mémoires de Monsieur Claude._
REMISER (popular), le fiacre à quelqu’un, _to shut one up_.
Comme il a voulu faire du pétard, j’y ai salement remisé
son fiacre.--=G. COURTELINE.=
Remiser son fiacre, _to hold one’s tongue_; _to die_. Se faire ----,
_to get sat upon_.
REMISEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _a receiver of stolen property_, or “fence.”
REMISIER, _m._ (familiar), _tout at the Stock Exchange_.
RÉMONE, _f._ (popular), faire de la ----, _to bluster_.
RÉMONENCQ, _m._ (literary), _old clothes man_; _marine store dealer_. A
character of Balzac’s _La Comédie Humaine_.
REMONTÉE, _f._ (popular), _afternoon_.
REMONTER (popular), sa pendule, _to occasionally chastise one’s better
half_; ---- le tournebroche, _to remind one of the non-observation of
some rule_.
REMORQUE, _f._ (boulevardiers’), se laisser aller à la ----, _is said
of a man who allows himself to be enticed into inviting a girl to
dinner_.
REMOUCHAGE, _m._ (thieves’), _revenge_.
REMOUCHER (thieves’), _to revenge oneself_; _to kill_, “to hush;”
(popular and thieves’) _to look_, “to ogle.”
R’mouchez-moi un peu c’larbin
Sous sa fourrure ed’cosaque.
Comme i’pu’ bon l’eau d’Lubin!
I’s’gour’ dans son col qui craque
Comme un’ areng dans sa caque.
Oh! la! la! c’t’habillé d’vert!
Oui, mais moi, v’là que j’me plaque.
C’est pas rigolo, l’hiver.
=RICHEPIN.=
Remouche le pante, “ogle the cove.” Remoucher, _to spy_, “to nose.”
Tandis que je le remouchions à la Porte Saint-Denis, il est
sorti par la barrière des Gobelins.--=BIZET.=
REMOUCHICOTER (popular), _to go about in quest of a love adventure, or
seeking to pick a quarrel with anyone_.
REMPARDEUSE, _f._ (popular), _prostitute who frequents the ramparts_.
REMPLIR LE BATTANT (popular), _to eat_, “to grub.”
REMPLUMER (popular), se ----, _to grow fat_; _to grow rich_, _to
become_ “rhino fat.”
REMPORTER UNE VESTE (popular), _to be unsuccessful_.
REMUE-POUCE, _m._ (thieves’), _money_, “dinarly.”
REMUER (thieves’), la casserole, _to be in the police force_, a
detective being termed “cuisinier.” (Popular) Remuer, _to stink_; ----
la commode, _to sing_.
En v’là un qui vous bassine, à remuer la commode ses dix
heures par jour!--=RIGAUD.=
REMUEUR DE CASSEROLES, _m._ (thieves’), _spy_, _informer_, “nark.”
Ce nouveau copain-là ne me dit rien de bon; je crois que
nous brûlons et que nous avons affaire à un remueur de
casseroles.--_Mémoires de Monsieur Claude._
RENÂCHÉ, _m._ (thieves’), _cheese_, “casey.”
RENÂCLANT, _m._ (thieves’), _nose_, “snorter.” See MORVIAU.
RENÂCLE, _f._ (thieves’), _the police_.
Ils nous regardèrent effrontément; ils dirent après avoir
vidé deux verres de mêlé-cassis: attention, la renâcle (la
police) est en chasse.--_Mémoires de Monsieur Claude._
RENÂCLER (popular), _to scold_; _to grumble_; _to feel disinclined_.
De temps en temps, quand les clients renâclent, il vide
lui-même sa coupe en levant les yeux au ciel avec tous les
signes de la béatitude.--=HECTOR FRANCE=, _Les Va-nu-pieds
de Londres_.
The word has passed into the language. Also _to be afraid_.
Quoi de plus propre en effet à faire renâcler les
poivrots.--_La petite Lune._
RENÂCLEUR, _m._ (popular), _grumbler_, “crib-biter;” (thieves) _police
officer_, or “reeler;” _detective_, “nark, or nose.”
Et comme vous êtes des renâcleurs venus pour nous
boucler, vous allez aussi éternuer avec la largue et ses
jobards.--_Mémoires de Monsieur Claude._
RENAISSANCE, _f._ (popular), _shoddy_.
RENARD, _m._ (popular), _apprentice_; _mixture of broth and wine_.
Il va prendre son renard: un bouillon et une chopine de vin
dedans.--_Le Sublime._
Also _vomit_. Piquer un ----, _to vomit_, “to shoot the cat.” Queue
de ----, _vomited matter_. (Thieves’) Renard, _spy at the hulks_.
(Booksellers’) Renard, _valuable work found by an amateur at a
bookstall among worthless books_.
RENARDER (popular), _to vomit_, “to shoot the cat.”