Un —— en bas âge, a one hundred franc note. Un —— femelle, a five hundred franc note. Un —— lof, a false begging petition; forged certificate, or false passport, “fakement.” Un —— mâle, a one thousand franc note.
Le billet de mille francs est un fafiot mâle, le billet de cinq cents francs un fafiot femelle.—Balzac.
Un —— sec, a genuine certificate or passport. Fabriquer des fafiots, or du fafelard à la manque, to forge bank notes, “to fake queer soft.”
Fafioteur, m. (thieves’), paper manufacturer or merchant; banker, “rag-shop boss;” writer; (popular) cobbler, or “snob.”
Faflard. See [Fafelard].
Fagaut (thieves’), the word faut disguised. Il ne —— dégueularder sur sa fiole, we must say nothing about him.
Fagot, cotteret, or falourde, m. (thieves’), convict, probably from his being tied up like a bundle of sticks. Un —— à perte de vue, one sentenced to penal servitude for life, or “lifer.” Un —— affranchi, a liberated convict, or “lag.” Un —— en campe, an escaped felon. (Familiar) Un ——, a candidate for the Ecole des Eaux et Forêts, a government training school for surveyors of State forests and canals.
Fagotin, m. (popular), vagrant, tramp, “abraham-man,” or “piky.”
Faiblard, m. (popular), sickly looking, weak person. Called in English slang “barber’s cat,” a term used in connection with an expression too coarse to print, according to the Slang Dictionary.