Engrouiller (popular), s’——, to stick fast; to be inert, without energy.
Engueulade, engueulage, synonymous of Engueulement.
Engueulement, m. (popular), abuse in any but choice language. Also insults by an abusive and scurrilous journalist who runs down public or literary men in expressions strongly savouring of the gutter. Fair specimens of this coarse kind of pen warfare may be found daily in at least one notorious Radical print, which would be thought very tame by its habitual readers if it had not a ready stock of abuse at its disposal, the most ordinary being voleur, bandit, maquereau, scélérat, porc, traître, vendu, ventru, ventripotent, jouisseur, idiot, crétin, gâteux, &c., &c.
Enguirlander (popular), to circumvent.
Enlevé, adj. (familiar), spirited. Un article ——, un discours ——, spirited article or speech.
Enlever (theatrical), to play with spirit; (general) —— le ballon à quelqu’un, to kick one, “to root,” or “to land a kick.” (Thieves’) S’——, to be famished.
Enleveur (theatrical), actor who plays in dashing, spirited style.
Enluminer (popular), s’——, to be in the first stage of intoxication, or “elevated.” See [Sculpter].
Enluminure, f. (popular), state of slight intoxication. See [Pompette].
Ennuyer (popular), s’——, to be on the point of death.