BENOÎTONNER, _to live and dress after the style of the Benoîtons_ (which see).
BENOÎTONNERIE, _f._, _style and ways of the Benoîtons_.
BÉQUET, _m._ (shoemakers’), _patch of leather sewn on a boot_; (wood engravers’) _small block_; (printers’) _a composition of a few lines_; _paper prop placed under a forme_.
BÉQUETER (popular), _to eat_, “to peck,” or “to grub.”
BÉQUILLARD, _m._ (popular), _old man_, _old_ “codger;” (thieves’) _executioner_.
BÉQUILLARDE, _f._ (thieves’), _guillotine_.
BÉQUILLE, _f._ (thieves’), _gallows_, “scrag.” Properly _crutch_.
BÉQUILLÉ, _m._ (thieves’), _hanged person_, _one who has_ “cut caper sauce.”
BÉQUILLER (popular), _to hang_; _to eat_, “to grub.”
BÉQUILLEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _executioner_; _man who eats_.
BERCE. Cheval qui se ----, _horse which rocks from side to side when trotting, which_ “wobbles.”
BERDOUILLARD (popular), _man with a fat paunch_, “forty guts.”
BERDOUILLE, _f._ (popular), _belly_, “tripes.”
T’as bouffé des haricots que t’as la berdouille gonfle.--=RICHEPIN=, _Le Pavé_.
BERGE, _f._, or LONGE (thieves’), _year_; _one year’s imprisonment_, “stretch.”
BERGÈRE, _f._ (popular), _sweetheart_, “poll;” _last card in a pack_.
BÉRIBONO, BÉRICAIN (thieves’), _silly fellow easily deceived_, a “flat,” a “go along.”
BERLAUDER (popular), _to lounge about_, “to mike;” _to go the round of all the wine-shops in the neighbourhood_.
BERLINE DE COMMERCE, _f._ (thieves’), _tradesman’s clerk_.
BERLU, _m._ (thieves’), _blind_, or “hoodman.” From avoir la berlue, _to see double_.
BERLUE, _f._ (thieves’), _blanket_, “woolly.”
BERNARD, _m._ (popular), aller voir ----, or aller voir comment se porte madame ----, _to ease oneself_, “to go to Mrs. Jones.”
BERNARDS, _m. pl._ (popular), _posteriors_, “cheeks.”
BERNIQUER (popular), _to go away with the intention of not returning_.
BERRI, _m._ (popular), _rag-picker’s basket_.
BERRY, _m._ (Ecole Polytechnique), _fatigue tunic_.
BERTELO, _m._ (thieves’), _one-franc piece_.
BERTRAND, _m._ (familiar), _a swindler who is swindled by his confederates, who acts as a cat’s-paw of other rogues_.
BESOIN, _m._ (popular), autel de ----, _house of ill-fame_, or “nanny-shop.”
BESOUILLE, _f._ (thieves’), _belt_. From bezzi, Italian, _small coin kept in a belt_.