Floue, f. (thieves’), crowd, “push or scuff.” The anagram of foule, crowd, or else from flouer, to swindle, through an association of ideas.
Floué, adj. (general), swindled, taken in, “sold,” “done brown.”
Alors, en deux mots, il leur raconte la scène, le traité brûlé, l’affaire flambée ...—Ah! la drogue ... je suis flouée ... dit Séphora.—A. Daudet.
Flouer, f. (general), to cheat, “to do,” “to bilk;” (thieves’) to play cards, playing being, with thieves, synonymous of cheating.
S’il y avait des brèmes on pourrait flouer.—Vidocq.
Flouerie, f. (general), swindle, “take in,” or “bilk.”
La flouerie est au vol ce que la course est à la marche: c’est le progrès, le perfectionnement scientifique.—Philipon.
[Floueur], m. (thieves’), card-sharper who entices country folks or strangers into a café where, aided by confederates, he robs them at a swindling game of cards.
Floume, f. (thieves’), woman, “muslin,” or “hay bag.”
Floutière (thieves’), nothing.