Tuiler (popular), to measure, to judge of one’s character or abilities; to survey one with suspicious eye. Se ——, to reach the stage of intoxication when the drunkard looks apoplectic, when he is as “drunk as Davy’s sow.”
Tulipe orageuse, f., a step of the cancan, a pas seul danced in such places as Bullier or L’Elysée Montmartre by a young lady with skirts and the rest tucked up so as to disclose enough of her person to shock the sense of decorum of virtuous lookers-on, whose feelings must be further hurt by the energetic and suggestive gyratory motions of the performer’s body. This pas is varied by the “présentez armes!” when the lady handles her leg as a soldier does his musket on parade. Other choregraphic embellishments are, “le passage du guet, le coup du lapin, la chaloupe en détresse, le pas du hareng saur,” &c.
[Tune], or thune, f. (thieves’), money, or “pieces;” five-franc piece.
J’suis un grinche, un voleur, un escarpe; je buterais le Père Eternel pour affurer une tune, mais ... trahir des amis, jamais!—Vidocq.
La ——, or tunebée (old cant), the old prison of Bicêtre. In the fifteenth century the king of mendicants was called Roi de Thune, or Tunis, as mentioned by V. Hugo in his description of La Cour des Miracles under Louis XI. (see Notre Dame de Paris), in imitation of the title of Roi d’Egypte, which the head of the gipsies bore at that time. It is natural that rogues should have given the appellation to the prison of Bicêtre, where so many of the members of the “canting crew” were given free lodgings, and which was thus considered as a natural place of meeting for the subjects of the King of Thune.
Tuneçon, f. (old cant), prison, or “stir.”
Tuner (old cant), to beg, “to maunder.” The latter term seems to be derived from mendier, to beg.
Tuneur, m. (old cant), beggar, “maunderer.”
Tunnel, m. (medical students’), the anus.
Tunodi (Breton cant), to talk cant, “to patter flash.”