BACHOTIER, _m._ (students’), _tutor who prepares candidates for the baccalauréat_, a “coach,” or a “crammer.”
BACHOTTER (sharpers’), _to swindle at billiards_.
BACHOTTEUR, _m._ (sharpers’), _a confederate of blacklegs at a four game of billiards_. The “bachotteur” arranges the game, holds the stakes, &c., pretending meanwhile to be much interested in the victim, or “pigeon.” His associates are “l’emporteur,” or “buttoner,” whose functions consist in entering into conversation with the intended victim and enticing him into playing, and “la bête,” who feigns to be a loser at the outset, so as to encourage the pigeon.
BÂCLER, BOUCLER (thieves’), _to shut_, _to arrest_. Bâclez la lourde! _shut the door!_ “dub the jigger.” (Popular) Bâcler, _to put_, _to place_. Bâclez-vous là! _place yourself there!_
BACREUSE, _f._ (popular), _pocket_. From creuse, _deep_.
BADAUDIÈRE, _f._, _the tribe of badauds_, _people whose interest is awakened by the most trifling events or things, and who stop to gape wonderingly at such events or things_.
Parmi tous les badauds de la grande badaudière parisienne, qui est le pays du monde où l’on en trouve le plus, parmi tous les flâneurs, gâcheurs de temps ... bayeurs aux grues.--=RICHEPIN=, _Le Pavé_.
BADIGEON, _m._ (popular), _painting of the face_; _paint for the face_, “slap.” Se coller du ----, _to paint one’s face_, “to stick on slap.”
BADIGEONNER, la femme au puits, _to lie_, “to cram.” An allusion to Truth supposed to dwell in a well. Se ----, _to paint one’s face_.
BADIGOINCES, _f._ _pl._ (popular), _lips_, _mouth_, “maw.” Jouer des ----, or se caler les ----, _to eat_, “to grub.” S’en coller par les ----, _to have a good fill_, “to stodge.” See MASTIQUER.
BADINGUISTE, BADINGÂTEUX, BADINGOUIN, BADINGUEUSARD, BADINGOUINARD, _terms of contempt applied to Bonapartists_. “Badinguet,” nickname of Napoleon III., was the name of a mason who lent him his clothes, and whose character he assumed to effect his escape from Fort Ham, in which he was confined for conspiracy and rebellion against the government of King Louis Philippe.
BADOUILLARD, _m._, BADOUILLARDE, _f._ (popular), _male and female habitués of low fancy balls_.
BADOUILLE, _f._ (popular), _henpecked husband_, or “stangey;” _fool_, or “duffer.”