Flancher (thieves’), to play cards; (popular) to laugh at; to back out; to hesitate; to dilly-dally, “to make danger” (sixteenth century).
Flanchet, m. (thieves’), share; participation in a theft. Foutu ——, bad job.
C’est un foutu flanchet.
Douze longes de tirade,
Pour une rigolade.
Vidocq.
Flancheur, m. (thieves’), an informer, a “nark;” one who backs out; a player; (popular) —— de gadin, one who takes part in a game played with a cork, topped by a pile of halfpence, which the players try to knock off by aiming at it with a penny. (Popular and thieves’) Enfonceur de —— de gadin, poor wretch who makes a scanty living by robbing of their halfpence the players at the game described above. He places his foot on the scattered coins, and works it about in such a manner that they find a receptacle in the interstices of his tattered soles.
Flâne, f. (popular), laziness.
Flanelle, f. (prostitutes’), one who does not pay. (General) Faire ——, to visit a house of ill-fame with platonic intentions.