Du gas, m. (sailors’), my lad.
Va bien. On t’emplira, du gas,
Répond le capitaine.
J’y fournirai, t’y fourniras
Moi l’huile à ta lanterne,
Toi l’huil’ de bras.
Richepin, La Mer.
Dumanet (familiar), appellation given to a private soldier, answers to the English “Thomas Atkins.” Dumanet is the name of one of the characters of a play.
[Dun], parler en ——, art of disguising words by means of the syllable “dun.” The letter n is substituted for the first letter of the word when it is a consonant, added when a vowel. The last syllable is followed by du, which acts as a prefix to the first. Thus “maison” becomes “naisondumai,” “Paris” becomes “Narisdupa.”
Dunik (Breton), mass.