DAMER (popular), une fille, _to seduce a girl, to make a woman of her_.
DANAÏDES, _f._ (thieves’), faire jouer les ----, _to thrash a girl_.
DANDILLER (thieves’), _to ring_; _to chink_. Le carme dandille dans sa fouillouse, _the money chinks in his pocket_.
DANDINAGE, _m._, DANDINETTE, _f._ (popular), _thrashing_, “hiding.”
DANDINE, _f._ (popular), _blow_, “wipe,” “clout,” “dig,” “bang,” or “cant.” Encaisser des dandines, _to receive blows_.
DANDINER (popular), _to thrash_, “to lick.” See VOIE.
DANSE, _f._ (familiar), du panier, _unlawful profits on purchases_. Flanquer une ---- à quelqu’un, _to thrash or_ “lick” _one_. See VOIE.
DANSER (popular), _to lose money_; _to pay_, “to shell out.” Il l’a dansée de vingt balles, _he had to pay twenty francs_. Danser devant le buffet, _to be fasting_, “to cry cupboard;” ---- tout seul, _to have an offensive breath_. Faire ---- quelqu’un, _to make one stand treat_; _to make one pay_, or “fork out;” _to thrash_, “to wallop.” See VOIE. La ----, _to be thrashed_; _to be dismissed from one’s employment_, “to get the sack.”
Luysard estampillait six plombes. Mezigo roulait le trimard, Et, jusqu’au fond du coquemart, Le dardant riffaudait ses lombes.
DARDELLE, _f._ (urchins’), _penny_ (gros sou).
DARIOLE, _f._ (popular), _slap or blow in the face_, “clout,” “bang,” or “wipe.” Properly _a kind of pastry_.
DARIOLEUR, _m._ (popular), _inferior sort of pastry cook_.
DARON, _m._ (thieves’), _father_, “dade,” or “dadi;” _gentleman_, “nib cove;” ---- de la raille, or de la rousse, _prefect of police, head of the Paris police_.
DARONNE, _f._ (thieves’), _mother_; ---- du dardant, _Venus_; ---- du grand Aure, _holy Virgin_; ---- du mec des mecs, _mother of God_.
DATTES, _f. pl._ (popular), des ----! _contemptuous expression of refusal_; might be rendered by “you be hanged!” See NÈFLES.
Elle se r’tourne, lui dit: des dattes! Tu peux t’fouiller vieux pruneau! Tu n’tiens plus sur tes deux pattes. Va donc, eh! fourneau!
DAUBE, _f._ (popular), _cook_, or “dripping.”
DAUCHE (popular), mon ----, _my father_; ma ----, _my mother_; “my old man, my old woman.”
DAUFFE, _f._, DAUFFIN, DAUPHIN, _m._ (thieves’), _short crowbar_. Termed also “l’enfant, Jacques, biribi, sucre de pommes, rigolo,” and in the language of English housebreakers, that is, the “busters and screwsmen,” “the stick, James, Jemmy.”