BOUTIQUER (popular), _to do anything with reluctance_; _to do it badly_.
BOUTIQUIER, _m._ (familiar), _narrow-minded or mean man_. Literally _shopkeeper_.
BOUTOGUE, _f._ (thieves’), _shop_, or “chovey.”
BOUTON, _m._ (thieves’), _master key_; (popular) _twenty-franc piece_; ---- de guêtre, _five-franc gold-piece_; ---- de pieu, _bug_, or “German duck.”
BOUTONNER (familiar), _to touch with the foil_; _to annoy, to bore_.
BOUTURE, _f._ (popular), de putain, low, insulting epithet, which may be rendered by the equally low one, _son of a bitch_. Bouture, _slip of a plant_.
BOXON, _m._ (popular), _brothel_, or “nanny-shop.”
BOYAU, _m._ (popular), rouge, _hard drinker_, or “rare lapper.”
BOYE, _m._ (thieves’), _warder_, or “bloke;” _convict who performs the functions of executioner at the convict settlements of Cayenne or New Caledonia_.
BRAC, _m._ (thieves’), _name_, “monniker,” or “monarch.”
BRACONNER (gamesters’), _to cheat_, or “to bite.” Properly _to poach_.
BRADER (popular), _to sell articles dirt cheap_.
BRAILLANDE, BRAILLARDE, _f._ (thieves’), _drawers_. From the old word braies, _breeches_.
BRAILLARD, _m._ (popular), _street singer_, or “street pitcher.” According to the _Slang Dictionary_, the latter term applies to negro minstrels, ballad-singers, long-song men, men “working a board” on which has been painted various exciting scenes in some terrible drama, &c.
BRAISE, _f._ (popular), _money_, “loaver.” See QUIBUS.
J’ai pas d’braise pour me fend’ d’un litre, Pas même d’un meulé cass’ à cinq.
BRAISEUR (popular), _man who is very free with his money_.
BRANCARD (popular), _superannuated gay woman_.
BRANCARDS, _m. pl._ (popular), _hands_, or “flappers;” _legs_, or “pins;” ---- de laine, _weak or lame legs_.
Un poseur qui veut me la faire à la redresse, que ces deux flûtes repêchées par vous dans la lance du puits n’avaient jamais porté une femme, je me connais en brancards de dames, c’est pas ça du tout.--=MACÉ=, _Mon Premier Crime_.
BRANCHE, _f._ (popular), _friend_, “mate.” Ma vieille ----, _old fellow!_ “old cock!” (Familiar) Avoir de la ----, _to have elegance_, “dash.”
BRANCHER (thieves’ and cads’), _to lodge_, “to perch,” or “roost.”
BRANDILLANTE, BRANDILLEUSE, _f._ (thieves’), _bell_, or “ringer.”