subs. phr. (common).—A tailor.
ENGLISH SYNONYMS, snip; cabbage contractor; steel-bar driver; goose persuader; sufferer; ninth part of a man, etc.
FRENCH SYNONYMS. Gobe-prune (thieves’); emmailloteur (popular); mangeur de prunes (general); pique-poux; pique-prunes; pique-puces; croque-prunes; frusquineur.
