DA (popular), mon ----, _my father_, “my daddy.” Ma ----, _my mother_, “my mammy.”
DAB, dabe, _m._ (thieves’), _father_, or “dade;” _master_; _a god_.
Mercure seul tu adoreras, Comme dabe de l’entrottement.
Le ---- de la cigogne, _the procureur général_, or _public prosecutor_. Grand ----, _king_.
Ma largue part pour Versailles... Pour m’faire défourailler. Mais grand dab qui se fâche, Dit par mon caloquet, J’li ferai danser une danse Où i n’y a pas d’plancher.
DABE, _m._ (popular), d’argent, _speculum_. (Prostitutes’) Cramper avec le ---- d’argent, _to be subjected to a compulsory medical examination of a peculiar nature_.
DABÉRAGE, _m._ (popular), _talking_, “jawing.”
DABESSE, _f._ (thieves’), _mother_; _queen_.
DABICULE, _m._ (thieves’), _the master’s son_.
DABOT, DABMUCHE, _m._ (thieves’), _the prefect of police_, or _head of the Paris police_; _a drudge_. Formerly it signified an unlucky player _who has to pay all his opponents_.
DABUCHE, _f._ (thieves’), _mother_; _grandmother_, or “mami;” _nurse_.
DABUCHETTE, _f._ (thieves’), _young mother_; _mother-in-law_.
DABUCHON, _m._ (popular), _father_, “daddy.”
DACHE, _m._ (thieves’), _devil_, “ruffin,” or “black spy;” (military) _hairdresser to the Zouaves_, _a mythical individual_. Allez donc raconter cela à ----, _tell that to the “Marines“_.
DADA, _m._ (military), aller à ----, _to perform the act of coition_, or “chivalry.” The old poet Villon termed this “chevaulcher.”
DAIL, _m._ (thieves’), je n’entrave que le ----, _I do not understand_.
DAIM, _m._ (popular), _swell_, or “gorger,” see GOMMEUX; _fool_, or “duffer;” _gullible fellow_, “gulpy;” ---- huppé, _rich man_, _one with plenty of_ “tin.”
DALE, DALLE, _f._ (thieves’), _money_, “quids,” or “pieces,” see QUIBUS.
Faut pas aller chez Paul Niquet, Ça vous consomme tout vot’ pauv’ dale.
_Five-franc piece_; (popular) _throat_, or “red lane;” ---- du cou, _mouth_, “rattle-trap.” Se rincer, or s’arroser la ----, _to drink_, “to have something damp.” See RINCER.
J’ai du sable à l’amygdale. Ohé! ho! buvons un coup, Une, deux, trois, longtemps, beaucoup! Il faut s’arroser la dalle Du cou.
DALZAR, _m._ (popular), _breeches_, “kicks,” “sit-upons,” or “kicksies.”
DAME, _f._ (popular), blanche, _bottle of white wine_; ---- du lac, _woman of indifferent character who frequents the purlieus of the Grand Lac at the Bois de Boulogne_.