Adjudant, m. (military), tremper un ——, to dip a piece of bread in the first, and consequently the more savoury broth yielded by the “pot au feu,” a practice indulged in by cooks.
Adjuger (gamesters’), une banque à un opérateur, to cheat, to “bite,” at cards.
Adroit, adj. (popular), du coude, fond of the bottle, or skilful in “crooking the elbow.”
[Aff], affe, f. (popular), eau d’——, brandy, or “French cream.” See [Tord-boyaux].
La v’là l’enflée, c’est de l’eau d’affe (eau-de-vie), elle est toute mouchique celle-là.—Vidocq.
Affaire, f. (thieves’), projected crime; projected theft or swindle, “plant;” —— juteuse, profitable transaction; —— mûre, preconcerted crime or theft about to be committed. (Familiar) Avoir son ——, to have received a “settler;” to be completely drunk, or “hoodman;” to have received a mortal wound, in other words, “to have one’s goose cooked.” (Popular) Avoir une —— cachée sous la peau, to be pregnant, or “lumpy.” Faire l’—— à quelqu’un, to kill, “to do for one.”
Affaler (popular), s’——, to fall, “to come a cropper.”
T’es rien poivre, tu ne tiens plus sur tes fumerons.... tu vas t’affaler.—Richepin, Le Pavé.
Affe. See [Aff].
Affistoler (familiar), to arrange, to dress. Mal affistolé, badly done, badly dressed.