Vocabulaire du Jour
"Je Fume"
Les Aventures du Petit Nicolas
pp 109-123
en avoir assez - to have had enough
le baba - familiar term for a rum
cake
un bureau de tabac - a shop selling magaizines,
post cards, stamps . . . and cigarettes
une caisse - a case/box/crate
chiffoné - rumpled, crumpled
claquer les portes - to slam the doors
se cotiser - to subscribe; to group together
déçu - decieived; disappointed
empester - to infect, taint, corrupt
frapper - to hit/know
le front - th forehead
frotter - to rub
des bouts - the ends, tips garnement -
scamp, rogue
malin - malicious, cunning, evil
palissade - wooden fence
pardi - you bet
pavé - paved/paving stone
pique - pike, quarrel; spade (suit in
cards)(I think in the story it is a picket from a picket fence.)
priver - to deprive, to abstain
remplir - to fill back up
la baignoire - the bathtub
rudement - roughly, harshly, severely
terrain - a piece of ground, field
le ventre - the stomach