Le trait’ de p’tit’ gouape et d’fripouille!
Gill.
Faire du ——, is said also of some event which causes great excitement.
Avant-hier a été donné aux ambassadeurs un dîner de douze couverts qui certainement fera du potin dans le monde qui s’amuse.—Figaro, Oct., 1886.
(Familiar and popular) Potin, scandalous report. Synonymous of cancans. Concerning the latter expression Madame de Genlis quotes the following conversation between General Decaen, who was at the time aide-de-camp to his brother, and who had been arrested by the gendarmerie on his way to the camp:—
Comment vous nommez-vous? lui demanda le brigadier.
—Decaen.
—D’où êtes-vous?
—De Caen.
—Qu’êtes-vous?