Ohé! les gendarmes, ohé! des navets!—H. Monnier.
Also is expressive of incredulity, impossibility. See [Nèfles].
Il faut avoir fait trois ans de Conservatoire pour savoir parler ... alors on sait donner aux mots leur valeur: mais sans cela!...—Des navets!—E. Monteil.
(Artists’) Navets, rounded arms or legs showing no muscle.
Navette, f. (thieves’), pedlar.
Nazaret, m. (popular), large nose, or “conk.” See [Morviau].
Naze, m. (popular and thieves’), nose, “smeller, or smelling-cheat.” The word is borrowed from the Provençal. For synonyms see [Morviau].
Nazi, m. (popular and thieves’), venereal disease, “Venus’ curse.”
Naziboter (popular), to speak through the nose. J’ai le mirliton bouché, ça me fait ——, I have a cold in the head, that makes me speak through my nose.
Nazicot, m. (popular), small nose. See [Morviau].