BIBELOT (familiar), _any object_; (soldiers’) _belongings_; _knapsack or portmanteau_; (printers’) _sundry small jobs_. Properly _any small articles of artistic workmanship_; _knick-knacks_.
BIBELOTER (popular), _to sell one’s belongings_, _one’s_ “traps;” ---- une affaire, _to do some piece of business_. Se ----, _to make oneself comfortable_; _to do something to one’s best advantage_.
BIBELOTEUR, _m._ (familiar), _a lover of knick-knacks_; _one who collects knick-knacks_.
BIBELOTIER, _m._, _printers’ man who works at sundry small jobs_.
BIBI, _m._ (popular), _term of endearment generally addressed to young boys_; _woman’s bonnet out of fashion_. C’est pour ----, _that’s for me_, _for_ “number one.” La Muse à ----, _the title of a collection of poems by Gill_, literally _my own muse_. A ----! (printers’) _to Bedlam!_ abbreviation of Bicêtre, _Paris depôt for lunatics_. (Thieves’) Bibi, _skeleton key_, or “betty;” (military) _infantry soldier_, “mud-crusher,” “wobbler,” or “beetle-crusher.”
BIBINE, _f._, _the name given by rag-pickers to a wine-shop_, or “boozing-ken.”
BIBOIRE, _f._, (schoolboys’), _small leather or india-rubber cup_.
BIBON, _m._ (popular), _disreputable old man_.
BICARRÉ, _m._ (college), _fourth year pupil in the class for higher mathematics_.
BICEPS, _m._ (familiar), avoir du ----, _to be strong_. Tâter le ----, _to try and insinuate oneself into a person’s good graces_, “to suck up.”
BICH, KORNIK, or KUBIK (Breton), _devil_.
BICHE, _f._ (familiar), _term of endearment_, “ducky!”; _girl leading a gay life_, or “pretty horse-breaker.”
BICHER (popular), _to kiss_. (Rodfishers’) Ça biche, _there’s a bite_; and in popular language, _all right_.
BICHERIE, _f._ (familiar), _the world of_ “biches” or “cocottes.” Haute ----, _the world of fashionable prostitutes_.
C’est là où ... on voit défiler avec un frou-frou de soie, la haute et la basse bicherie en quête d’une proie, quærens quem devoret.--=FRÉBAULT=, _La Vie à Paris_.
BICHON, _m._, _term of endearment_. Mon ----! _darling_. (Popular) Un ----, _a Sodomist_.
BICHONNER COCO (soldiers’), _to groom one’s horse_.
BICHONS, _m. pl._ (popular), _shoes with bows_.
BICHOT, _m._ (thieves’), _bishop_. Probably from the English.