EMPAUMÉ, _adj._ (popular), c’est ----, _it’s done_.
EMPAUMER (popular and thieves’), _to apprehend_, “to smug.” See PIPER.
EMPÊCHEUR (familiar), de danser en rond, _dismal man, who plays the dog in the manger_, “mar-joy.”
EMPEREUR, _m._ (popular), _worn-out old shoe_.
EMPIERGEONNER (popular), s’----, _to get entangled_.
Margot dans sa cotte et ses bas S’empiergeonna là-bas, là-bas.
EMPIFFRAGE, _m._, EMPIFFRERIE, _f._ (popular), _gluttony_, “stodging.”
EMPILAGE, _m._, or EMPIL (popular), _cheating_.
EMPIOLER (thieves’), _to lock up_, “to give the clinch.”
EMPLANQUER (thieves’), _to come up_; _to turn up_, “to crop up.”
EMPLÂTRE, _m._ (card-sharpers’), de Thapsia, _shirt front and collar_. (Popular) Faire un ----, _to arrange one’s cards ready for playing_. (Thieves’) Emplâtre, _wax imprint taken for housebreaking purposes_.
EMPLÂTRER (popular), _to thrash_, “to wallop.” Si tu crânes, je vais t’emplâtrer, _none of your cheek, else I’ll give you a beating_. See VOIE. S’----, _to encumber oneself_.
EMPLOYÉ, _adj._ (military), dans les eaux grasses, _clerk of the victualling department_, “mucker.”
EMPOIGNADE, _f._ (popular), _dispute_, “row.”
EMPOIGNER (literary), _to criticise vigorously_; (theatrical) _to hiss_, “to give the big bird.”
EMPOISONNEUR, _m._ (popular), _the landlord of wine-shop_. Termed also “mastroquet, troquet, bistrot.”
EMPOIVRER (popular), s’----, _to get drunk_, “to get screwed.” See SCULPTER.
EMPORTER (thieves’), _to swindle_, “to stick;” (popular) ---- le chat, _to meddle with what does not concern one, and to get abused or thrashed for one’s pains_. To act as Monsieur Robert in Molière’s _Le Médecin malgré Lui_, when he upbraids Sganarelle for beating his spouse, and in return gets thrashed by both husband and wife.
EMPORTEUR, _m._, _swindler who gets into conversation with a stranger, gains his confidence, and takes him to a café where two confederates_, “le bachotteur” _and_ “la bête,” _await him_ (see BACHOTTEUR); ---- à la côtelette, _card-sharper who operates at restaurants_.
EMPOTÉ, _m._ (familiar), _slow, clumsy man_, “stick in the mud.”
EMPOUSTEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _swindler who sells spurious goods to tradesmen under false pretences_.
EMPRUNTER (popular), un pain sur la fournée, _to beget a child before marriage_; ---- un qui vaut dix, _to conceal one’s baldness by brushing the hair forward_.