Puisque je ne l’ai plus, elle, pas plus que je n’ai du fade, Charlot peut aiguiser son couperet, je ne regrette plus ma tête.--_Mémoires de Monsieur Claude._
FADÉ, _adj._ (popular), _drunk_, or “screwed.” See POMPETTE. Etre bien ----, _to be quite drunk_, or “scammered;” _to have received a good share_; _to be well treated by fate_. Is used also ironically or sorrowfully: Me voilà bien ----! _a bad job for me! Here I am in a fine plight!_ (Thieves’) Etre ----, _to have received one’s share of ill-gotten gains_; _to have had one’s_ “whack.”
FADER (thieves’), _to divide the booty among the participators in a robbery_, “to nap the regulars,” or “to cut up.”
FADEURS, _f. pl._ (popular), des ----! _nonsense!_ “all my eye!” Concerning this English rendering the supplementary _English Glossary_ says: “All my eye, _nonsense, untrue_. Sometimes ‘All my eye and Betty Martin.’ The explanation that it was the beginning of a prayer, ‘O mihi beate Martine,’ will not hold water. Dr. Butler, when headmaster of Shrewsbury, ... told his boys that it arose from a gipsy woman in Shrewsbury named Betty Martin giving a black eye to a constable, who was chaffed by the boys accordingly. The expression must have been common in 1837, as Dickens gives one of the Brick Lane Temperance testimonials as from ‘Betty Martin, widow, one child, and one eye.’--_Pickwick_, ch. xxxiii.”
FAFELARD, _m._ (thieves’), _passport_; _bank note_, or “soft;” ---- à la manque, _forged note_, or “queer soft;” ---- d’emballage, _warrant of arrest_.
FAFFE, _m._ (thieves’), _paper_; ---- à roulotter, _cigarette paper_; _bank note_, or “soft.”
FAFIOT, _m._ (popular and thieves’), _document_, or “fakement;” _shoe_, or “trotter case.” See RIPATON. Fafiot, _bank note_, or “soft.”
Fafiot! n’entendez-vous pas le bruissement du papier de soie?--=BALZAC.=
Fafiot garaté, _banknote_, or “soft.” An allusion to the signature of the cashier M. Garat, which notes of the Banque de France formerly bore.
On invente les billets de banque, le bagne les appelle des fafiots garatés, du nom de Garat, le caissier qui les signe.--=BALZAC.=
Un ---- en bas âge, _a one hundred franc note_. Un ---- femelle, _a five hundred franc note_. Un ---- lof, _a false begging petition; forged certificate, or false passport_, “fakement.” Un ---- mâle, _a one thousand franc note_.