Dattes, f. pl. (popular), des ——! contemptuous expression of refusal; might be rendered by “you be hanged!” See [Nèfles].
Elle se r’tourne, lui dit: des dattes!
Tu peux t’fouiller vieux pruneau!
Tu n’tiens plus sur tes deux pattes.
Va donc, eh! fourneau!
Parisian Song.
Daube, f. (popular), cook, or “dripping.”
Daubeur, m. (popular), blacksmith.
Dauche (popular), mon ——, my father; ma ——, my mother; “my old man, my old woman.”
Dauffe, f., dauffin, dauphin, m. (thieves’), short crowbar. Termed also “l’enfant, Jacques, biribi, sucre de pommes, rigolo,” and in the language of English housebreakers, that is, the “busters and screwsmen,” “the stick, James, Jemmy.”