subs. (old).—An egg. [From CACKLING (see CACKLE) + FART (q.v.), a discharge of wind through the anus.] A variant in English is HEN-FRUIT; Fr. un avergot (thieves’); the Breton cant has bruant, whilst in the German Gaunersprache is found Dickmann (also = the penis and testes); the Fourbesque has arbifi and alberto (the latter from the Italian albo, white).
