attrape, n.f., bite, trick, take-in, sell, hoax.
attrape, n.m. — nigaud; fool-trap. — mouche; catch-fly. C’est un — tout; he is a grabber.
attrape-lourdaud, n.m., (—, or —-—s) clap-trap; catch-penny.
attrape-parterre, n.m., (—, or —-—s) (l.u.) clap-trap for the pit, clap-trap.
attraper, v.a., to entrap, to ensnare, to trap; to take in, to catch; to overreach; to cheat, to trick; to overtake; to get, to secure; to receive; to compass; to take, to surprise; to hit, to reach; to seize. — un renard dans un piège; to entrap a fox. Prenez garde à vous, il vous attrapera; look to yourself, he’ll take you in. Il en a attrapé de plus fins que vous; he has taken in more cunning people than you are. Attrape qui peut; scramble for it. Attrapé! caught! Il a attrapé un bon bénéfice; he has got a good living. — un rhume; to catch a cold. — un coup; to get a blow. — quelqu’un sur le fait; to catch any one in the act. La pierre l’a attrapé à la tempe; the stone hit him on the temple. — le sens, la pensée, d’un auteur; to catch the sense, to hit upon the meaning of an author. — un caractère; to hit off a character. — la ressemblance; to hit off the likeness. Attrape! take that!
s’attraper, v.r., to be caught; (man.) to clip.
attrapeu-r, n.m., -se, n.f., deceiver, deluder, cheat, trickster.
attrapoire, n.f., trap, pit-fall, snare; wile, trick.
attrayant, -e, adj., attractive, inviting, winning, engaging, charming.
attribuer, v.a., to attach, to annex; to attribute, to ascribe, to impute (a thing to any one); to assign, to confer. — des privilèges à une charge; to assign; to attach privileges to an office.