ASPHYXIER (popular), _to drink_; ---- le perroquet, _to drink a glass of absinthe_, green, like a parrot; ---- un pierrot, _to drink a glass of white wine_. Pierrot, a pantomimic character, with face painted white, and costume to match.
ASPIC, _m._ (popular), _a slanderer_, an allusion to “aspic,” a _viper_; (thieves’) _a miser_, or “hunks.”
ASSEOIR (popular), s’----, _to fall_. Envoyer quelqu’un s’----, _to throw one down_, _to silence, get rid of one_. Allez vous ----, _shut up_, _go to_ “pot” (an allusion to the customary intimation of the judge to a witness whose examination is concluded). S’---- sur le bouchon, _to sit on mother earth_. S’---- sur quelqu’un, _to silence one_, _sit upon him_. S’---- sur quelquechose, _to attach but slight importance to a thing_.
ASSEYEZ-VOUS DESSUS ET QU’ ÇA FINISSE! (familiar), _silence him! sit upon him!_
ASSIETTE, _f._ (popular), avoir l’---- au beurre, _to be lucky_, _fortunate in life_.
ASSIS, _m._ (literary), _clerks_, or “quill drivers.”
Oh! c’est alors qu’il faut plaindre... les malheureux qu’un travail sédentaire courbe sur un bureau.... c’est alors qu’il convient de se lamenter sur le sort des assis.--=RICHEPIN=, _Le Pavé_.
ASSISTER (thieves’), _to bring victuals to a prisoner from outside_.
ASSOCIÉE, _f._ (printers’), mon ----, _my wife_, _my_ “old woman.”
ASSOMMOIR, _m._ (familiar), _name of a wine-shop at Belleville, and which is now common to all low drinking-shops_. From assommer, _to knock over the head_.
ASTEC, _m._ (familiar), _stunted and weakly person_, or “barber’s cat;” (literary) _a weak, despicable adversary_. An allusion to the Mexican dwarfs.
ASTIC, _m._ (thieves’), _steel_, _sword_, or “poker” (from the German stich); (soldiers’) _a mixture of pipe-clay for the furbishing of the brass fixtures of equipment_. Aller à l’----, _to clean one’s equipment_.
ASTICOT, _m._ (popular), _vermicelli_; _mistress of a bully or thief_, “mollisher;” ---- de cercueil, _glass of beer_ (a play on the words “ver” and “bière,” asticot being a _flesh-worm_).
ASTIQUAGE or ASTIQUE, _m._ (military), _cleaning the equipments_.
ASTIQUER (popular), _to beat_, or “to towel;” _to tease_. Literally _to clean_, _to furbish_. S’----, _to have angry words, as a prelude to a set to_; _to fight_. Literally _to make oneself neat_, or “smug.”