BADOUILLER (popular), _to frequent low public balls_; _to wander about without a settled purpose_, “to scamander;” _to have drinking revels_, “to go on the booze.”
BADOUILLERIE, _f._ (popular), _dissipated mode of living_.
BAFFRE, _f._ (popular), _a blow in the face with the fist_, a “bang in the mug.”
BAFOUILLER, (popular), _to jabber_; _to splutter_; _to sputter_.
BAFOUILLEUR, BAFOUILLEUX, _m._, BAFOUILLEUSE, _f._, _one who sputters_.
BAGNIOLE, _f._ (popular), _carriage_, “trap,” or “cask.”
BAGNOLE, _f._ (popular), diminutive of bagne, _convict settlement, hulks: wretched room or house_, or “crib;” _costermonger’s hand-barrow_, “trolly,” or “shallow.”
La maigre, salade ... que les bonnes femmes poussent devant elles dans leur bagnole à bras.--=RICHEPIN=, _Le Pavé_.
BAGOU, BAGOÛT, _m._ (familiar), (has passed into the language), _facility of speech_ (used disparagingly). Quel ---- mes amis! _well, he is the one to talk!_ Avoir un fier ----, _to have plenty of jaw_.
On se laissa bientôt aller à la joie ravivée sans cesse au bagout du vieux, qui n’avait jamais été aussi bavard.--=RICHEPIN=, _La Glu_.
(Thieves’) Bagou, _name_, “monniker,” “monarch.”
BAGOULARD, _m._ (popular), _a very talkative man_, a “clack-box,” or “mouth-all-mighty.” C’est un fameux ----, “He’s the bloke to slam.”
BAGOULER (popular and thieves’), _to prattle_, to do the “Poll Parrot;” _to give one’s name_, or “dub one’s monniker.”
BAGUE, _f._ (thieves’), _name_, “monniker,” “monarch.”
BAGUENAUDE (thieves’ and cads’), _pocket_, “cly,” “sky-rocket,” or “brigh;” ---- à sec, _empty pocket_; ---- ronflante, _pocket full of money_. Faire la retourne des baguenaudes, _to rob drunkards who go to sleep on benches_.
... Une bande de filous, vauriens ayant travaillé les baguenaudes dans la foule.--=RICHEPIN=, _Le Pavé_.
BAGUENOTS, _m. pl._ (popular), faire les ----, _to pick pockets_, “to fake a cly.”
BAGUETTES, _f. pl._ Properly rods, _or drum-sticks_. (Military) Avaler ses ----, _to die_. (Familiar) Baguettes de tambour, _thin legs_, _spindle-shanks_; _lank hair_.
BAHUT, _m._ (popular), _furniture_, “marbles.” Properly _large dresser, or press_; (cadets’) ---- spécial, _the military school of Saint-Cyr_; (students’) ---- paternel, _paternal house_. Bahut, _a crammer’s establishment_; _college, or boarding-school_.