La madame du pavillon qui met ses bas?—Plus que ça de quilles.—Gavarni.
The synonyms are, “flûtes, guibes, guibonnes, guibolles, trimoires, gambettes, échalas, ambes, train numéro onze, bâtons de cire, bâtons de tremplin,” and, in the English slang, “gambs, pins, spindle-shanks, Shanks’ mare, stumps, pegs, timbers, stems,” &c. Jouer des ——, to bolt, “to skedaddle.” For synonyms see [Patatrot]. (Popular and thieves’) Quilles d’échasse, long-legged man, “daddy long-legs.”
J’te connais, toi, l’gros, et toi aussi, les quilles d’échasse.—Louise Michel.
Quimper (thieves’), to fall; —— la lance, to void urine.
[Quinquets], m. pl. (popular), eyes. Termed also “mirettes, reluits, calots, chas, or châsses, châssis, falots, lampions, apics, ardents;” in the English slang, “peepers, glaziers, ogles, daylights, top-lights.” Allumer ses ——, to gaze about attentively, “to stag.” Eteindre les ——, to put out a person’s eyes. (Roughs’) Remoucher un pante avec des quinquets comme des roues de derrière, to look at a man with eyes like crown pieces, “to pipe at a cove with glaziers like hind coach-wheels.” Baisser les abat-jour de ses ——, to shut ones eyes; to go to sleep.
Il est temps de baisser les abat-jour de nos quinquets. Bonsoir donc et bonne nuit.—Dubois de Gennes.
Quinte, f. (popular), avoir —— et quatorze, to suffer from a venereal disease; to be unlucky, “down on one’s luck.” J’en ai-t’y de la chance! En v’la une quinte et quatorze. That’s just my cursed ill-luck! (Popular and military) Avoir ——, quatorze, et le point, to be suffering from a complicated venereal disease.
Notre héros ... ne le porta pas cependant en paradis. Une belle Italienne lui donna son compte. Quinte, quatorze et le point. Jeu complet. Il est mort à l’hôpital.—Hector France, Le Roman du Curé.
English sailors use the term, “to take one’s coals in,” to express that they have caught the venereal disease. “It means,” says the Slang Dictionary, “that they have gotten that which will keep them hot for a good many months.” Quinte mangeuse is the quinte majeure at the game of piquet.
Quinze, m. (popular), vingts, blind man. Alluding to an inmate of the Government home for the blind, known under the name of Les Quinze-Vingts; —— cents francs, one-year volunteer in the army. He has to pay the State a sum of 1,500 francs for his outfit; —— broquilles, a quarter of an hour; (familiar and popular) —— ans et pas de corset! “sweet sixteen!” is said of any female whose charms have still a youthful appearance.