CRAPOUSSIN, _m._ (popular), _small man_; _child_, or “kid.”
CRAPULOS, CRAPULADOS, _m._ (familiar and popular), _one-sou cigar_.
CRAQUELIN, _m._ (popular), _liar_. From craque, _fib_.
CRASSE, _f._ (familiar), _mean or stingy action_. Baron de la ----, see BARON.
CRAVACHE, _f._ (sporting), être à la ----, _to be at a whip’s distance_.
CRAVATE, _f._ (popular), de chanvre, _noose_, or “hempen cravat;” ---- de couleur, _rainbow_; ---- verte, _women’s bully_, “ponce.” See POISSON.
CRAYON, _m._, _stockbroker’s clerk_. The allusion is obvious.
CRÈCHE, _f._ (cads’), faire une tournée à la ----, or à la chapelle, _is said of a meeting of Sodomists_.
CRÊPAGE, _m._ (popular), _a fight_; _a tussle_. Un ---- de chignons, _tussle between two females_, in which they seize one another by the hair and freely use their nails.
CRÊPER (popular), le chignon, or le toupet, _to thrash_, “to wallop.” See VOIE. Se ---- le chignon, le toupet, _to have a set to_.
CRÉPIN, _m._ (popular), _shoemaker_, or “snob.”
CRÉPINE, _f._ (thieves’), _purse_, “skin,” or “poge.”
CREUSE, _f._ (popular), _throat_, “gutter lane.”
CREUX, _m._ (thieves’), _house_; _lodgings_, “diggings,” “ken,” or “crib.” (Popular) Bon ----, _good voice_. Fichu ----, _weak voice_.
CREVAISON, _f._ (popular), _death_. Faire sa ----, _to die_. Crever, _to die_, is said of animals. See PIPE.
CREVANT, _adj._ (swells’), _boring to death_; _very amusing_.
Que si vous les interrogez sur le bal de la nuit, ils vous répondront invariablement, C’était crevant, parole d’honneur.--=MAHALIN.=
CREVÉ (popular), _dead_. (Familiar) Petit ----, _swell_, or “masher.” See GOMMEUX.
CRÈVE-FAIM, _m._ (popular), _man who volunteers as a soldier_.
CREVER (popular), _to dismiss from one’s employment_; _to wound_; _to kill_; ---- la sorbonne, _to break one’s head_.
Mais c’ qu’est triste, hélas! C’est qu’ pour crever à coups d’botte Des gens pas palas. On vous envoie en péniche A Cayenne-les-eaux.
Crever la pièce de dix sous _is said of the practices of Sodomists_; ---- la paillasse, _to kill_.
Verger, il creva la paillasse A Monseigneur l’Archevêque de Paris.
The above quotation is from a “complainte” on the murder of the Archbishop of Paris, Monseigneur Sibour, in the church Sainte-Geneviève, by a priest named Verger. A complainte is a kind of carol, or dirge, which has for a theme the account of a murder or execution. (Familiar) Crever l’œil au diable, _to succeed in spite of envious people_. Tu t’en ferais ----, _expressive of ironical refusal_. It may be translated by, “don’t you wish you may get it?” Se ----, _to eat to excess_, “to scorf.”