L'argot. Also see: verlan.

A small selection:

  • baiser - to fuck. "Je veux te baiser"= I wanna shag you. "Baise-toi!" = fuck off. Note: the dictionary probably says this means to kiss - don't use it as such unless you want serious misunderstandings.
  • bander - to have a hard-on. "Je bandes", "Je bandes pour toi" and "bandeur". Also débander, the reverse, commonly used as an insult - "tu débandes?" means 'are you chicken?'
  • les bloblos (f)- big, fat, droopy boobies.
  • bosser - to work (at your job).
  • bourré(e) - pissed blind drunk.
  • branleur, branleuse - wanker. Also branlage, (wanking) se branler (to wank)
  • casser la gueule à quelqu'un - to beat the shit out of someone
  • cette putain de machine - this fucking machine. Can refer to anything, but handy for geeks.
  • la chiasse - the shits, diarrhoea. Also chier, to shit, and les chiottes, the bog (Yankee can)
  • le clito - fairly obvious
  • le con - cunt, or female genitalia. Also connard as insult or connasse.
  • les couilles - balls
  • le cul - arsehole.
  • de merde - fucking, used as an intensifier, as in "putain de merde!"
  • les doudounes - tits
  • la drague - cruising (gay men) as in "faire la drague"
  • déconner - to fuck someone around, or trick them. "Sans déconner?" = No shit?
  • emmerdant - annoying. As in "Que tu es emmerdant!"
  • enculer - to bugger. "Va t'enculer!" = bugger off.
  • fils de putain = sonofabitch
  • le flic - cop
  • le foutre - sperm, jizz
  • foutre - to fuck up. "C'est foutu" = it's fucked, done for. NB not used now to mean having sex(see baiser)
  • gerber - to puke
  • la gouine - lesbian, dyke
  • jouir - to come, in the sexual sense
  • le keuf - analogous to the London phrase for a cop "the filth"
  • mec - man, as in Hey man. "Alors, mec!"
  • merde - shit. merdeux = shitty.
  • une meuf - a woman. Verlan slang; femme reversed.
  • nique ta mère - Fuck your mother.(insult, not serious!)
  • l'oignon - arse.
  • la pipe - blowjob. "Faire une pipe" to give a blowjob.
  • pipi - "Faire une pipi" - to have a wee.
  • pisser - as above.
  • pouffiasse - bitch, whore. Insult.
  • putain - whore, but also used as a general interjection, as in "putain de merde"
  • péter - to fart.
  • ramoner - to screw, fuck
  • salaud - bastard. Salope for a girl.
  • le zizi - willy.