DURAILLE, _f._ (thieves’), _stone_; _precious stone_, “spark.”
DURE, _f._ (thieves’), _stone_; _the central prison_; ---- à briquemon, à rifle, _flint_. Voler quelqu’un à la ----, _to rob a man with violence_, “to jump a cove.”
DU VENT (popular), or de la mousse, de l’anis, des dattes, des navets, des nèfles, du flan, _derisive expressions of refusal_; might be rendered by, “you be blowed,” “don’t you wish you may get it,” “you’ll get it in a hurry,” &c.
DYNAMITARD, _m._ (familiar), _dynamiter_, one who aims at regenerating society by the free use of dynamite.
EAU, _f._ (popular), de moule, _a mixture of a little absinthe and a great deal of water_. Marchand d’---- chaude, or d’---- de javelle, _landlord of a wine-shop_.
EAU D’AF, EAU D’AFFE, _f._ (popular and thieves’), _brandy_, or “French cream,” from af, _life_.
As-tu bu l’eau d’af à c’matin? T’as l’air tout drôle, est-ce que t’es malade, ma mère?--_Catéchisme Poissard._
EAUX, _f. pl._. (popular), être dans les ---- grasses, _to hold a high official position_. Les ---- sont basses, _funds are low_, _funds are at_ “low tide.”
EBASIR (thieves’), _to knock down_; _to murder_, “to cook one’s goose.”
EBATTRE (thieves’), s’---- dans la tigne, _to try and pick pockets in a crowd_, “to fake a cly in the push.”
EBÉNO, _m._ (popular), for ébéniste, _French polisher_.
EBOURIFFANT, _adj._ (common), _excessive_, _astounding_. Vous êtes ébouriffant, _you are_ “coming it rather too strong.”
ECAILLÉ, _m._ (popular), _prostitute’s bully_, or “Sunday man.” Properly _one with scales like those of a fish_. An allusion to maquereau. See POISSON.
ECARBOUILLER (popular), s’----, _to run away_, “to bunk.”
ECART, _m._ (gambling cheats’), _sleight of hand trick by which the cheat conceals an ace under his wrist to use when convenient_.
ECARTER (familiar), du fusil, or de la dragée, _to spit involuntarily when talking_.
ECHALAS, _m._ (popular), jus d’----, _wine_. (Thieves’) Echalas d’omnicroche, _coachman of an omnibus_.
ECHALAS, _m. pl._ (popular), _thin legs_, “spindle-shanks.”
Joue des guibolles, prends tes échalas à ton cou. --=X. MONTÉPIN.=
ECHAPPÉ, _m._ (popular), de Charenton, _crazy fellow_ (Charenton is the Paris dépôt for lunatics); ---- d’Hérode, _unsophisticated man_, or “greenhorn.”