Argot and slang

The cover image was created by the transcriber, and is placed in the public domain.
Footnotes have been moved to the end of the poem or extract in which they occur.
Variant spelling and use of accents, inconsistent hyphenation and capitalization are retained, as are English words spelt in the French manner. There are many words with irregular placing of the apostrophe in possessive plurals (e.g. womens’, Fishermens’) these have not been changed.
The table of contents has been created by the transcriber.
Argot and Slang
A NEW FRENCH AND ENGLISH DICTIONARY
OF THE
CANT WORDS, QUAINT EXPRESSIONS, SLANG TERMS AND FLASH PHRASES
USED IN THE HIGH AND LOW LIFE OF OLD AND NEW PARIS
ALBERT BARRÈRE
OFFICIER DE L’INSTRUCTION PUBLIQUE
NEW AND REVISED EDITION