CHOURINEUR, _m._, for SURINEUR (thieves’), _one who uses the knife_; _knacker_. “Le Chourineur” is one of the characters of Eugène Sue’s _Mystères de Paris_.
CHRÉTIEN, _adj._ (popular), _mixed with water_, “baptized.”
CHRÉTIEN, _m._ (popular), viande de ----, _human flesh_.
CHRYSALIDE, _f._ (popular), _old coquette_.
CHTIBES, _f. pl._ (popular), _boots_, “hock-dockies.”
CHYBRE, _m._ (popular), see FLAGEOLET; (artists’) _member of the Institut de France_.
CHYLE, _m._ (familiar), se refaire le ----, _to have a good meal_, a “tightener.”
CIBLE, _f._ (popular), à coups de pieds, _breech_. See VASISTAS.
CIBOULE, _f._ (popular), _head_, or “block.” See TRONCHE.
CIDRE ÉLÉGANT, _m._ (familiar), _champagne_, “fiz,” or “boy.”
CIEL, _m._ (fishermens’), le ---- plumant ses poules, _clouds_.
Les nuages, c’était le ciel plumant ses poules, Et la foudre en éclats, Michel cassant ses œufs. Il appelait le vent du sud cornemuseux, Celui du nord cornard, de l’ouest brise à grenouille, Celui de suroit l’brouf, celui de terre andouille.
CIERGE, _m._ (thieves’), _police officer_, or “reeler.” For synonyms see POT-À-TABAC.
CIG, _m._, CIGALE, or SIGUE, _f._ (thieves’), _gold coin_, or “yellow boy.”
CIGALE, _f._ (popular), _female street singer_. Properly _grasshopper_; also _cigar_.
CIGOGNE, _f._ (thieves’), _the “Préfecture de Police” in Paris_; _the Palais de Justice_; _court of justice_. Le dab de la ----, _the public prosecutor_; _the prefect of police_.
Je monte à la cigogne. On me gerbe à la grotte, Au tap, et pour douze ans.
CIGUE, _f._ (thieves’), abbreviation of cigale, _twenty-franc piece_.
CIMAISE (painters’), faire sa ---- sur quelqu’un, _to show up one’s own good qualities, whether real or imaginary, at the expense of another’s failings_, in other words, _to preach for one’s own chapel_.
CINGLER (thieves’), se ---- le blair, _to get drunk_, or “canon.”
CINQ-À-SEPT, _m._, _a kind of tea party from five o’clock to seven in the fashionable world_.
CINQ-CENTIMADAS, _m._ (ironical), _one-sou cigar_.
CINTIÈME, _m._ (popular), _high cap generally worn by women’s bullies_, or “pensioners.”
CINTRER (popular), _to hold_; (thieves’) ---- en pogne, _to seize hold of_; _to apprehend_, or “to smug.” See PIPER.