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41 chouette
I.n. m.1. Le chouette de¼ The great thing about¼ Le chouette de l'affaire, c'est qu'on lui a prêté son propre fric: The really hilarious thing about it all was that we lent him his own money.3. (pl.): Genuine I.D. papers. Marcher sous ses chouettes: To go about under one's true identity.4. Prendre du chouette: To indulge in sodomous intercourse.II.n. f. Il était tout à la chouette à l'idée de revoir sa bonne femme: He was full of the joys of spring at the thought of seeing his missus again.III.adj.1. 'Swell', 'great', fine. C'est une chouette personne, ta frangine: Your sister is a really nice person.a To be 'in someone's good books', to be held in esteem by someone.b To 'have a crush on someone', to be enamoured with someone.IV.interj. Good-ho! — Smashing! — Great! Chouette alors! Well, that's really super! (The French and English are equally twee.) -
42 chouettos
adj. inv. (joc.): 'Swell', 'great', fine. (The word is pronounced chouettosse.) -
43 gommeux
n. m. 'Toff', 'swell', member of the social élite who rather fancies himself. (The word was fashionable up to the 1940s.) -
44 jus
n. m.1. Water.a Rain (also: jus de parapluie). Qu'est-ce qu'il tombé comme jus! It ain't half raining!b 'The drink', 'the soup' (the sea, a lake, a river). Tomber au jus: To fall overboard. Tout le monde au jus! Let's all have a swim!2. Coffee. Siroter un jus: To sip a quiet cup of coffee. Jus de chaussette: Bitter and nasty coffee. Jus de chapeau: Watery coffee.3. 'Juice', 'gas', petrol. Donner du jus: To 'step on it', to open the throttle. Aller plein jus: To 'belt along', to bomb along.5. 'Spunk', sperm. Lächer le jus: To 'juice off', to ejaculate.6. Avoir du jus de navet dans les veines: To be 'spunkless', 'spineless', to be weak-willed.7. Laisser mijoter (also: mariner) quelqu'un dans son jus: To 'let someone stew in his own juice', to let someone sweat it out (of the mess he got himself into).8. Y mettre du jus: To put some vim (and zest) into it, to 'pull out all the stops', to try one's darnedest.9. Lengthy 'blurb', verbose text. Se noyer dans le jus (sch.): To waffle on and on.10. Long-winded speech, lengthy allocution. Dévider un jus: To spout at length.11. Valoir le jus: To be worth-while. Ça vaut le jus, je t'assure! I can tell you it's well worth it!12. C'est le même jus: It's six of one and half a dozen of the other—It's the same thing.13. Jeter du jus: To 'look swell', to look great. Qu'est-ce qu'elle en jette! She's a sight for sore eyes!14. C'est du peu au jus! (mil.): Demob day is just around the corner!15. Etre dans son jus (of an antique): To be in its original (untampered-with) state. -
45 monsieur
n. m.1. Jouer au monsieur. To 'act the swell', to 'dandy about', to put on gentlemanly airs and graces.2. Un joli monsieur (iron.): A 'thoroughly nasty piece of work', an evil character. -
46 rupin
I.n. m. 'Swell', 'toff', one of the 'upper crust'. (The French and the English are equally dated.)II.adj.1. 'Swish', smart, elegant.2. 'Wellheeled', well-off, rich. Une Rolls, ça fait rupin! A Rolls-Royce certainly makes you look wealthy. -
47 rupinskoff
I.n. m. 'Swell', 'toff', one of the 'upper crust'. (Both in noun and adjective form the word has a flavour of wealthy Russian aristocracy.)II.adj.1. 'Swish', smart, elegant.2. 'Well-heeled', well-off, rich. -
48 suiffard
n. m. Dandy, 'swell', nattily dressed man. (The French and the English are equally twee and dated.) -
49 urf
adj. inv. 'Classy', 'swell', first-rate. Il s'est levé une nana tout ce qu'il y a de urf! You should see the smashing bird he's pulled! (Opinions vary drastically as to the origin and nature of this adjective; on the latter issue, it is safer to presume the adjective to be invariable.) -
50 enfler
puff up, swell -
51 épatant
smashing, swell -
52 gonfler
blow up, bulge, inflate, puff out, pump up, swell out -
53 gonfler
COS ingunfià, imbuffàEN to inflate (fig.) to swell, to put in high spirits, in great form
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