Connaissance, f. (popular), ma ——, my mistress, or sweetheart, my “young woman.”
[Connaître] (popular), le journal, to be well informed; to know beforehand the menu of a dinner; —— le numéro, to possess experience; —— le numéro de quelqu’un, to be acquainted with one’s secrets, one’s habits. La —— dans les coins, to be knowing, to know what’s o’clock. An allusion to a horse clever at turning the corners in the riding school.
Regardez-le partir, le gavroche qui la connaît dans les coins.—Richepin.
Connerie, f. (popular), foolish action or thing. From an obscene word which has the slang signification of fool.
Conobler (thieves’), to recognize.
Conobrer (thieves’), to know.
Conscience, f. (printers’), homme de ——, typographer paid by the day or by the hour.
Conscrar, conscrit, m., first-term student at the “Ecole Normale,” a higher training-school for university professors.
Conservatoire, m. (popular), pawnshop. Elève du —— de la Villette, wretched singer. La Villette is the reverse of a fashionable quarter.
Conserves, f. (theatrical), old plays. Also fragments of human flesh which have been thrown into the sewers or river by murderers, and which, when found, are taken to the “Morgue,” or Paris dead-house.