bidon

dummy, fake (slang)
(original meaning: can/drum/flask)
(and, from googleimages... also a pregnant woman's stomach)










context: The Wire (Sur Ecoute), s4 ep13

Keema: Herc, qu'est-ce que tu as fait, exactement ?

Herc: J'ai perdu la caméra que j'avais prise sans l'accord de mon lieutenant, et les preuves obtenues grâce à cette camera, je les ai attribuées à un informateur bidon.

Bunk: Fiston, ils vont botter ton petit cul de blanc-bec comme si t'étais une mule.

microcéphale

an abnormally small-headed person


context: Francoise Sagan - Bonjour Tristesse, "Je m'amusai beaucoup jusqu'au moment où Anne déclara que l'associé de mon pere etait microcéphale. C'etait un homme qui buvait beaucoup, mais qui etait gentil...."

évier, lavabo

lavabo (un)




























évier (un)

liquéfier

NOT 'liquidifier'.

vomir

NOT 'vomiter'.

encrasser / écraser

encrasser - to clog up

googleimages tells me this is mostly used when talking about engines


écraser


















to crush; to run over

(there's actually no pictures of roadkill that aren't at least slightly distressing)

mare (la)

pond

also, sometimes when the coffee filter paper doesn't really hold and some bits come through, and then at the end you've got all the grainy stuff

not actually related to marre as in « j'en ai marre » - I'm fed up, I've had enough

se la péter

to show off; boast

original context: « oh, tu vas le mettre sur ton profil facebook ? tu te la petes ? »

garce (une)

tart; slag

in googleimaging a picture I found this blog, which is another french-word-a-day thing with more of a story-thing going on - apparently it's kinda inappropriate to turn up to your ex's wedding in a short dress, precision-smoking a cigarette

this picture unrelated to that, apparently the word just comes up often in wedding situations

this picture kinda inappropriate, in fact

original context a poster around town for this play:































("my roomate's a slag"?)