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.