ETRENNER (general), _to receive a thrashing_, “to get a drubbing.” See VOIE.
ETRIERS, _m. pl._ (cavalry), avoir les ---- trop courts _is said of a man with bandy legs_.
ETRILLAGE, _m._ (popular), _loss of money_.
ETRILLER (general), _to fleece_, “to shave.”
ETROITE, _f._ (popular), faire l’----, _to be affected_, or “high falutin;” _to play the prude_.
ETRON DE MOUCHE, _m._ (thieves’), _wax_, conveniently used for taking the impress of keyholes.
ETRUSQUE, _adj._ (familiar), _old-fashioned_.
ET TA SŒUR (popular), _expression of refusal, disbelief, or a contemptuous reply to insulting words_.
Une fille s’était empoignée avec son amant, à la porte d’un bastringue, l’appelant sale mufe et cochon malade, tandis que l’amant répétait, “et ta sœur?” sans trouver autre chose.--=ZOLA.=
ETUDIANT DE LA GRÈVE, _m._ (popular), _mason_.
ETUDIANTE, _f._ (familiar), _student’s mistress_, _his_ “tartlet.”
ETUI, _m._ (popular), _skin_, or “buff;” ---- à lorgnette, _coffin_. (Soldiers’) Etuis de mains courantes, _boots_.
EVANOUIR (popular), s’----, _to make off_, or “to bunk;” _to die_. See PIPE.
EVANOUISSEMENT, _m._ (popular), _flight_.
EVAPORER (popular), _to steal adroitly_. S’----, _to vanish_, “to mizzle.”
EVENTAIL À BOURRIQUE, _m._ (popular), _stick_, or “toco.”
EVENTRER UNE NÉGRESSE (popular), _to drink a bottle of wine_.
EVÊQUE DE CAMPAGNE, _m._ (popular), _a hanged person_. From the expression, Bénir des pieds, _to be hanged_, and properly _to bless with one’s feet_.
EVER GOAD HE VUGALE (Breton), _drunkard_. Literally _drinker of his children’s blood_.
EXBALANCER (thieves’), _to send one away; to dismiss him_.
EXCELLENT BON, _m._ (familiar), _young dandy_.
EXÉCUTER (familiar), s’----, _to comply with a request_; _to fulfil one’s promise_; _to pay unwillingly rather than otherwise_.
EXHIBER (cads’), _to look at_, “to pipe.” Nib de flanche, on t’exhibe, _stop your game, they are looking at you_. Exhiber son prussien, _to run away_.
EXHUMÉ, _m._ (familiar), _swell_, “masher.” An allusion to the cadaverous appearance of most French “mashers.” See GOMMEUX.
EXPLIQUER (military and popular), s’----, _to fight a duel_; _to fight_.
Sauf el’ bandeau Qu’a s’coll’ chaqu’ fois su’ l’coin d’la hure, Après qu’ nous nous somm’s expliqués, C’est pas qu’ j’aim’ y taper dans l’nez; J’haï ça; c’est cont’ ma nature.