Visqueux, m. (popular), most degraded variety of prostitutes’ bullies. See [Poisson].
Visser (thieves’), to abash by a stern glance.
Visuel, m. (popular), s’en injecter, or s’en humecter le ——, to look attentively.
Vitam (Breton cant), brandy.
Vitelotte, f. (popular), red nose, one with “grog blossoms.”
Vitres, f. pl. (popular), eyes, or “glaziers.”
Vitriers, m. pl. (military), chasseurs à pied, or rifles. Thus nicknamed, either from their high knapsack compared to an itinerant glazier’s plant, or from the expression, casser les vitres, to be reckless. The appellation forms the theme of the following verse set to one of their bugle marches:—
Encore un carreau d’cassé,
V’là l’vitrier qui passe,
Encore un carreau d’cassé,