EXTRA, _m._ (popular), _good dinner_; _guest at a military mess_.
EXTRAIT DE GARNI, _m._ (popular), _dirty servant_; _slattern_.
EXTRAVAGANT, _m._ (popular), _glass of beer of unusual size_, “galopin” being the appellation for a small one. The latter term is quite recent as used with the above signification. According to the _Dict. Comique_ it meant formerly _a small measure for wine_:--
Galopin, c’est une petite mesure de vin, ce qu’on appelle à Paris un demi-setier.--=LE ROUX.=
F, être de l’---- (popular), that is, être fichu, flambé, foutu, fricassé, frit, fumé, _to be lost, ruined_, “cracked up,” “gone to smash.”
FABRICANT, _m._ (popular), de culbutes, or de fourreaux, _tailor_, “rag-stabber.” Je me suis carmé d’une bath pelure chez le ---- de culbutes, _I have bought a fine coat at the tailor’s_.
FABRICATION, _f._ (thieves’), passer à la ----, or être fabriqué, _to be apprehended_. Faire passer à la ----, _to apprehend_.
FABRIQUER (thieves’), _to apprehend_, “to smug;” _to steal_, “to claim;” ---- un gas à la flan, à la rencontre, or à la dure, _to rob from the person with violence_, “to jump;” ---- un poivrot, _to rob a drunkard_.
FAÇADE, _f._ (popular), _head_, or “nut;” _face_, or “mug.” (Cocottes’) Se faire la ----, _to paint one’s face_, in other words, “to stick slap” _on one’s face_.
FACE, _f._ (popular and thieves’), _a sou_.
Je ne donnerais pas une face de ta sorbonne si l’on tenait l’argent.--=BALZAC.=
FACE! _an exclamation used when a smash of glass or crockery is heard_, the word being the French rendering for the exclamation “heads!” at pitch and toss.
FACILE À LA DÉTENTE (popular), _is said of one who readily settles a debt, or opens the strings of his purse_.
FACTIONNAIRE, _m._ (popular), poser un ----, _to ease oneself_. Relever un ----, _to slip out of a workshop in order to go and drink a glass of wine kept ready by a comrade at a neighbouring wine-shop_.
FACTURIER, _m._ (theatrical), _one whose spécialité is to produce songs termed_ “couplets de facture,” _for the stage or music halls_.
FADAGE, _m._ (thieves’), _the act of sharing the plunder_, or “cutting it up.”
FADARD, _adj. and m._ (popular), _dandy_, or “gorger.” For synonyms see GOMMEUX.
FADE, _m._ (popular), _a fop or empty swell_, a “dundreary;” _one’s share in the reckoning_, or “shot;” _a workman’s wages_. Toucher son ----, _to receive one’s wages_. (Thieves’) Fade, _a rogue’s share in the proceeds of a robbery_, or “whack;” _money_, or “pieces.”