DAUPHIN, _m._ (popular), _girl’s bully_, “ponce,” see POISSON; (thieves’) _short crowbar used by housebreakers_, “jemmy.”
DAVID, _m._ (popular), _silk cap_. From the maker’s name.
DE (familiar), se pousser du ----, _to place the word “de” before one’s name to make it appear a nobleman’s_.
DÉ, _m._ (popular), or ---- à boire, _drinking glass_. Dé! _yes_. Properly _thimble_.
DÉBÂCLE, _f._ (thieves’), _accouchement_. Properly _breaking up_, _collapse_.
DÉBÂCLER (thieves’ and popular), _to open_; _to force open_; ---- la lourde, _open the door_.
DÉBÂCLEUSE, _f._ (thieves’ and popular), _midwife_. Termed also “tâte-minette, Madame Tire-monde.”
DÉBAGOULER (popular), _to speak_, “to jaw.”
DÉBALINCHARD, _m._ (popular), _one who saunters lazily about_.
DÉBALLAGE, _m._ (popular), _undress_; _getting out of bed_; _dirty linen_. Etre floué or volé au ----, _to be grievously disappointed with a woman’s figure when she divests herself of her garments_. Gagner au ----, _to appear to better advantage when undressed_.
DÉBALLER (popular), _to strip_. Se ----, _to undress oneself_.
DÉBANQUER (gamesters’), _to ruin the gaming bank_.
DÉBARBOUILLER (popular), à la potasse, _to strike one in the face_, “to give one a bang in the mug;” _to clear up some matter_.
DÉBARDEUR, _m._, DÉBARDEUSE, _f._ (familiar), _dancers at fancy balls dressed as a_ débardeur _or lumper_.
DÉBARQUER (popular), se ----, _to give up_; _to relinquish anything already undertaken_, to “cave in.”
DÉBAUCHER (popular), _to dismiss_. Etre débauché, _to get the sack_. The reverse of embaucher, _to engage_.
DÉBECQUETER (popular), _to vomit_, “to cast up accounts,” “to shoot the cat.”
DÉBECTANT (popular), _annoying_; _tiresome_; _dirty_; _disgusting_.
DÉBINAGE, _m._ (familiar), _slandering_; _running down_. From débiner, _to talk ill_, _to depreciate_.
DÉBINER (popular), _to depreciate_; ---- le truc, _to disclose a secret_; _to explode a dodge, or fraud_.
Parbleu! je n’ignore pas ce que peuvent dire les blagueurs pour débiner le truc de ces fausses paysannes.--=RICHEPIN=, _Le Pavé_.
Se ---- des fumerons, _to run away_, “to leg it.” Se ----, _to abuse one another_, “to slang one another;” _to run away_, “to brush,” see PATATROT; _to grow weak_.