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81 balcon
n. m.1. Il y a du monde au balcon! (Sexist remark): What a pair of knockers! — What big breasts!2. 'Les cocus au balcon!': This humorous jeer is often heard at student marches and its immediate effect is to get the bons bourgeois at their windows. -
82 blagueur
I.n. m.1. 'Tease', 'leg-puller', jokester.2. Prankster, one who enjoys playing practical jokes.II.adj. (of person):1. 'Jokey', humorous.2. Given to practical jokes. -
83 boudin
n. m.1. Cosh, truncheon (also: goumi).2. 'Prick', 'cock', penis.3. Tyre. On s'est retrouvés en pleine cambrousse avec deux boudins crevés: We were stranded in the middle of nowhere with two flat tyres.4. (pej.): 'Biddy', ungainly woman. Chaque fois qu'on sort ensemble, il se leve toujours un affreux boudin! Whenever we go out on a foursome, he always manages to land the ugliest girl going!5. 'Prozzie', low-class prostitute.6. Avoir du boudin: To have an unbeatable hand at cards.7. Faire du boudin: To sulk and sulk.9. 'Tiens— voilà du boudin': Humorous yet meaningless words associated with the tune of the slow march of the French Foreign Legion. -
84 capitaine
n. m. Quel est l'âge du capitaine? (joc.): Humorous stock phrase indicating that the mathematical problem posed is practically insoluble. -
85 cédule
n. m. Timetable, order of events. (The word is a humorous corruption of the English 'schedule'.) -
86 cheval
n. m.1. Butch-looking woman, one singularly lacking in femininity.2. Cheval de retour: 'Old lag', old offender, criminal who seems to regularly boomerang back to jail. (In a humorous context, the appellation can sometimes refer affectionately to someone who cannot keep away from a past occupation.)4. (Drugs): Heroin. (A translation of the American 'horse', the word is hardly ever encountered.) -
87 colle
n. f.1. 'Stodge', stodgy food.2. 'Stumper', 'poser', brain-teaser. Philippe, il faut toujours qu'il pose des colles! He always likes to quiz you with the unanswerable, does Philip!4. (sch.): Detention. Prendre une colle: To cop detention.5. Quelle colle!a (of person): What a bore!b (of situation, event): What a drag!6. Ménage à la colle: 'Open marriage', commonlaw marriage.7. Faites chauffer la colle! (Stock humorous phrase said when someone breaks crockery): Go on, break up the happy home!8. Chier dans la colle: To 'lay it on a bit thick', to exaggerate.9. C'est de la colle! It's bunkum! — Poppycock!10. Combat à la colle (Boxing): 'Duff contest', phoney fight. -
88 en-bourgeois
n. m. Plain clothes policeman, one who does not normally wear a uniform. (An alternative humorous spelling of this word is hambourgeois.) -
89 Eve
Proper name. Ne connaître quelqu'un ni d'Eve ni d'Adam: Not to know someone from Adam. (There is a jocular corruption of this expression: Ne connaître quelqu'un ni des levres ni des dents which carries its own humorous message.) -
90 fée
n. f.1. La fée électricité (joc.): 'Juice', electricity. (This expression became popular between the wars as the result of a publicity campaign. Today it merely retains humorous connotations.)2. La fée blanche: 'Snow', cocaine. -
91 javanais
n. m. 'Av-slang'. ( Javanais is a cant, a special humorous, would-be secret language born in the 1860s and still alive and kicking today. Its principle is to introduce certain syllables like pi, av or va into words to create an element of confusion for the non-speaker; jardin becomes javardin; oiseau becomes oipiseau. Another distortive process, known as verlen, is to invert letters and syllables; calibre becomes brelica, etc.) -
92 muche
n. f.1. 'Thingummy', 'whatsit', thing (also: trucmuche).2. Little known in its own right, muche is more often than not found as a humorous suffix sometimes replacing the normal ending of a word as in Ménilmuche for Ménilmontant, or just tacked on as in argomuche for argot. -
93 nickelé
adj. Avoir les pieds nickelés:a To be a 'jammy bugger', to have the luck of the devil. (The Pieds-Nickelés, the creation of the humorous cartoonist Louis Forton, are three happy-go-lucky characters who boomerang from rags to riches and back to rags in every episode. Their ability to fall back on their feet and laugh at adversity was and is their trademark as their hilarious cartoon capers are forever being revived.)b To sit tight, to refuse to budge. (This expression is often used in a work context when referring to an obstreperous employee.) -
94 parti
I.past part. C'est parti, mon kiki! (joc. interj.): That's it! — Off we jolly well go! (This humorous rhyming catch phrase usually punctuates the successful start of a venture or action.)II.adj. 'Sozzled', 'sloshed', drunk. Un peu qu'il était parti à la fin de la noce! He was blind-drunk by the end of the wedding-do! -
95 pendre
v. intrans. Ça te pend au nez! (joc. & iron.): Like two and two make four, you're sure to cop it! (When the context is deemed to be particularly humorous, this expression often has the appendage: comme un sifflet de deux ronds.) -
96 périscope
n. m.1. (joc.): 'Prick', 'cock', penis. (The word is humorous because of the 'Up periscope!' naval terminology familiar to all W.W. II film-buffs.)2. Jeter un coup de périscope: To 'have a shufty', to glance discreetly at. -
97 pied
n. m.1. Faire du pied à quelqu'un: To 'play footsie', to make amorous foot-play advances.a (lit.): To 'skedaddle', to 'scram', to move away niftily.b (fig.): To get out of a scrape in the nick of time.3. S'être levé du pied gauche: To be in a foul mood (because one has got out of bed on the wrong side). Partir du pied gauche (of venture, undertaking): To make a bad start.4. Lever le pied:a To ease off the accelerator pedal, to reduce one's speed in a motor car.b To take things at a more leisurely pace (and let others do the rushing about).c (of shady entrepreneur): To do a 'moonlight flit', to disappear with the takings.5. S'en aller les pieds devant: To 'pop one's clogs', to 'snuff it', to die.6. Faire des pieds et des mains pour¼: To 'try every trick in the book', to worry more about the ends than the means where success is concerned. Il a fait des pieds et des mains pour un petit rôle de rien du tout: For a two-bit part in that play he literally flogged his granny!7. Ça lui fera les pieds! (That will) serve him jolly well right! C'est bien fait pour tes pieds! Well you asked for it, didn't you?!8. Etre bête comme ses pieds: To be 'as thick as two short planks', to be totally stupid. Quel pied! What a nurk! — What a fool!9. Prendre son pied (also: aller au pied): To have a 'come', to experience an orgasm. (The origin of the expression could be sought in the picturesque avoir les pieds en bouquets de violettes which is both descriptive and humorous.)10. Ça, c'est le pied! This is great! — This is fantastic! (In this instance pied has taken a far more metaphorical meaning.)11. En avoir son pied de quelque chose: To be fed up to the back teeth with something.12. Aller au pied (Underworld slang): To 'split the takings', to have a share-out.13. Il y a du pied dans la chaussette! There's no rush! — We've plenty of time! -
98 pousser
v. trans. & intrans.1. To 'go too far', to overdo things. Une fois ça va, deux fois peut-être, mais faut pas pousser avec moi! Once is alright, twice is enough, but don't push me too far! (There is a would-be humorous extension to faut pas pousser in the expression: Faut pas pousser grand-mère dans les orties.) 2 En pousser une (also: pousser une goualante):a To burst out into song.b To moan, to complain.c To let out a cry of pain.3. A la va-comme-je-te-pousse: 'Any-old-how', in a slapdash manner, without care and attention. -
99 sein
n. m.1. Le coup du troisième sein. Faire le coup du troisième sein is a humorous expression describing the ploy where a mother breast-feeding a hungry baby offers it more from the first breast, which is still empty.2. Tu mefais mal aux seins! You get on my tits! — You're a bloody nuisance! -
100 tondu
I.n. m. (joc.): 'Baldie', bald-headed man. (This humorous appellation got an extra boost from the comic cartoon-strip 'Tif et Tondu'.)II.adj. 'Cleaned-out', 'skint', penniless through reckless gambling or careless spending.
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