Bidache, f. See [Bidoche].
Bidard, m. (popular), lucky.
Bidet, m. (convicts’), string which is contrived so as to enable prisoners to send a letter, and receive the answer by the same means.
[Bidoche], or barbaque, f. (popular), meat, “bull;” (military) piece of meat.
Bidon de zinc, m. (military), blockhead. Properly a can, flask.
Bidonner (popular), to drink freely, “to swig;” (sailors’) —— à la cambuse, to drink at the canteen, “to splice the mainbrace.”
Bie (Breton cant), beer; water.
Bien (popular), pansé, intoxicated, “screwed.” Mon ——, my husband, or “old man;” my wife, or “old woman.” Etre du dernier —— avec, to be on the most intimate terms with. Etre ——, to be tipsy, “screwed.” Etre en train de —— faire, to be eating. Un homme ——, une femme ——, means a person of the middle class; well-dressed people.
Bienséant, m. (popular), the behind, or “tochas.” See [Vasistas].
Bier (thieves’), to go.