Canard, m. (familiar), newspaper; clarionet; (tramcar drivers’) horse. (Popular) Bouillon de ——, water. (Thieves’) Canard sans plumes, bull’s pizzle, or rattan used for convicts.
Canarder (popular), to take in, “to bamboozle;” to quiz, “to carry on.”
Canardier, m. (popular), journalist; vendor of newspapers; (journalists’) one who concocts “canards,” or false news; (printers’) newspaper compositor.
Canarie, m. (popular), simpleton, or “flat.”
[Canasson], m. (popular), horse, or “gee;” old-fashioned woman’s bonnet. Vieux ——! old fellow! “old cock!”
Cancre, m. (fishermens’), jus de ——, landsman, or “land-lubber.” Cancre, properly poor devil.
Cancrelat, m. (popular), avoir un —— dans la boule, to be crazy. For other kindred expressions, see [Avoir]. Cancrelat, properly kakerlac, or American cockroach.
Cane, f. (thieves’), death.
Canelle, f. (thieves’), the town of Caen.