Va, la môme, et n’fais pas four.
Richepin.
Une ——, or mômeresse, mistress, “blowen.” C’est ma ——, elle est ronflante ce soir, It is my girl, she has money to-night. Un —— d’altèque, handsome young man. Taper un ——, to commit a theft; to commit infanticide.
Car elle est en prison pour un môme qu’elle a tapé.—From a thief’s letter, quoted by L. Larchey.
Madame Tire-mômes, midwife. Termed in the seventeenth century, “madame du guichet, or portière du petit guichet.” (Convicts’) Môme bastaud, convict who is a Sodomist, a kind of male prostitute.
Mômeuse, f. See [Mômière].
Momicharde, f. (popular), little girl.
Envoie les petites ... qu’elles aboulent, les momichardes!—Louise Michel.
[Mômière], f. (thieves’), midwife. Termed also “Madame Tire-mômes, Madame Tire-monde, or tâte-minette.”
Momignard, m. (popular and thieves’), child, or “kid;” baby; —— d’altèque, a fine child.