Mais on s’enrhum’ du cerveau.
L’lend’main, on fait l’chat qui r’niffe,
Et l’blair coul’comme un nez d’veau.
Richepin.
Fortification, f. (popular), cushion of a billiard table. Etre protégé par les fortifications, to have one’s ball under the cushion.
[Fortin], m. (thieves’), pepper. From fort, strong.
Fortinière, f.. (thieves’), pepper-box.
Fosse aux lions, f. (familiar), box at the opera occupied by men of fashion.
Fossile, m. (literary), a disrespectful epithet for the learned members of the Académie Française.
Fou, adj. (popular and thieves’), abbreviation of foutu, lost, done for.