Gandouse, f. (popular), mud, dirt.
Gannaliser (familiar), to embalm. From Gannal, name of a practitioner. The expression is little used.
Gant, m. (popular), moule de ——, box on the ear. Properly mould for a glove.
Ganter (cocottes’), 5½, to be close-fisted; —— 8½, to be open-handed.
Gantière, f. (familiar), disreputable establishment where the female assistants make a show of selling gloves or perfumery, but where they retail anything but those articles.
Gants de pied, m. pl. (military), wooden shoes.
Garçon, m. (popular), à deux mains, slaughterer; —— de bidoche, butcher boy. (Thieves’) Garçon, thief, “prig.” Un brave ——, an expert thief. Un —— de campagne, or de cambrouse, highwayman. Termed formerly in the English cant “bridle-cull.”
La cognade à gayet servait le trèpe pour laisser abouler une roulotte farguée d’un ratichon, de Charlot et de son larbin, et d’un garçon de cambrouse.—Vidocq. (The horse-police were keeping back the crowd in order to open a passage for a cart which contained a priest, the executioner, his assistant, and a highwayman.)
Gardanne, f. (familiar), odd piece of silk.
Garde, m. and f. (popular), national, lot of bacon rind. Gardes nationaux, beans. (Familiar) Descendre la ——, to die, “to kick the bucket.” See [Pipe]. Vieille ——, superannuated cocotte, or “played out tart.”