[Pélaud], pélo, or pélot, m. (popular), sou. Corruption of palet.
Si tu fais ce coup-là, j’arrose de deux litr’s de marc! Ça y est, fais voir tes pélauds.—G. Courteline.
Pelé, m. (thieves’), main road, “high Toby.”
Pélican, m. (thieves’), peasant, or “clod.” (Popular) Se camoufler en ——, to assume the garb of a peasant. (Popular and thieves’) Un ——, a dressy prostitute of the Boulevards.
Pelle (gay girls’), faire danser un homme sur la —— à feu, to make repeated calls on a man’s purse. (Popular) Recevoir la —— au cul, to be dismissed, to get “the sack.”
Pelletas, m. (popular), poor devil.
Pélo, m. (popular). See [Pélaud].
Pelochon, or polochon, m. (popular), bolster. Se flanquer un coup de ——, to sleep, “to doss.” (Military) Mille pelochons! a mild oath, “darn it.”
Pelotage, m. (familiar), flattery, or “blarney;” taking liberties with a woman, or “fiddling.” Il y a du ——, is said of a woman with fine, well-developed bosoms, and other charms to match.
Peloter (familiar and popular), to thrash; to flatter with a view to obtaining some advantage from one.