BAUSSER (popular), _to work_, “to graft.”
BAVARD, _m._ (popular), _barrister_, _lawyer_, “green bag;” (military) _punishment leaf in a soldier’s book_.
BAVARDE, _f._ (thieves’), _mouth_, “muns,” or “bone box.”
Une main autour de son colas et l’autre dans sa bavarde pour lui arquepincer le chiffon ronge.--=E. SUE.=
BAVER (popular), _to talk_, “to jaw;” ---- des clignots, _to weep_, “to nap a bib;” ---- sur quelqu’un, _to speak ill of one_, _to backbite_. Baver, also _to chat_. The expression is old.
Venez-y, varletz, chamberières, Qui sçavez si bien les manières, En disant mainte bonne bave.
BAVEUX, _m._ (popular), _one who does not know what he is talking about_.
BAYAFE, _m._ (thieves’), _pistol_, “barking iron,” or “barker.”
BAZAR, _m._ (military), _house of ill-fame_, “flash drum;” (servants’) _house where the master is particular_, “crib;” (popular) _any house_; (prostitutes) _furniture_, “marbles;” (students) _college or school_, “shop.”
BAZARDER (popular), _to sell off anything, especially one’s furniture_; _to barter_; (military) _to pillage a house; to wreck it_.
BÉ, _m._ (popular), _wicker-basket which rag-pickers sling to their shoulders_.
BÉAR, _adj._ (popular), laisser quelqu’un ----, _to leave one in the lurch_.
BEAU, _m._, _old term for swell_; ex-----, _superannuated swell_.
BEAU BLOND (thieves’), _a poetical appellation for the sun_.
BEAUCE, _f._ (thieves’), plume de ----, _straw_, or “strommel.”
BEAUCE, _m._, BEAUCERESSE, _f._, _second-hand clothes-dealers of the Quartier du Temple_.
BEAUGE, _m._ (thieves’), _belly_, “guts.”
BEAUSSE, _m._ (thieves’), _wealthy man_, “rag-splawger,” _or one who is_ “well-breeched.”
BÉBÉ, _m._ (popular), _stunted man_; _female dancer at fancy public balls in the dress of an infant_; _the dress itself_; _term of endearment_. Mon gros ----! _darling! ducky!_
BEC, _m._ (popular), _mouth_, “maw;” ---- salé, _a thirsty mortal_. Claquer du ----, _to be fasting_, “to be bandied.” Rincer le ---- à quelqu’un, _to treat one to some drink_. Se rincer le ----, _to wet one’s whistle_. Tortiller du ----, _to eat_, “to peck.” Casser du ----, _to have an offensive breath_. Avoir la rue du ---- mal pavée, _to have an irregular set of teeth_. Ourler son ----, _to finish one’s work_. (Sailors’) Se calfater le ----, _to eat or drink_, “to splice the mainbrace.” (Thieves’) Bec de gaz, bourrique, flique, cierge, arnif, peste, laune, vache, _police-officer or detective_, “pig,” “crusher,” “copper,” “cossack,” “nark,” &c.