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(thieves': soulas, Old French = 'solace' or 'comfort'); rebâtir un pante (thieves'); sonner (popular); lingrer (popular); envoyer ad patres (popular = 'to send to one's fathers'); envoyer en paradis (general = 'to send to kingdom-come'); envoyer en parade (thieves' = 'to send on parade'); capahuter (thieves' = to get rid of an accomplice to secure his share of the booty; sometimes rendered by refroidir à la capahut); décrocher (military: literally 'to unhook,' 'to take down'); descendre quelqu'un (popular = to bring down); couper le sifflet (popular = to cut one's whistle); watriniser (popular: in reference to M. Watrin, who was murdered by the Decazeville miners in 1886. Cf., the English 'to burke'); moucher le quinquet (popular: 'to snuff the lamp'); faire saigner du nez (thieves = 'to give a bloody nose'); sabler (thieves'); faire banque (common); suager (thieves': from suer, 'to sweat');
German Synonyms. Abfetzen (to kill by cutting or stabbing); abmeken, abmacken (Hebrew mocho = to put aside, to destroy, or to give 'tit for tat.' North German afmurksen); bekern machen (from the Hebrew peger. Used of animals it is the equivalent of krepieren); hargenen or horeg sein ('to kill' or 'murder.' Horeg, the murderer; Horug, the murdered; nehrog, murdered; nehrog werden, to be murdered; Hereg or Harigo, the murder); heimthun, or heimerlich spielen (heim, a corruption of the Hebrew chajim = life); Kappore machen or fetzen (literally 'to make purified.' From the Hebrew kophar); memissen or memissren; die Neschome nehmen (Hebrew neschomo, the soul or life); pegern or peigern; rozechenen or rozchenen (Hebrew, rozach = to kill); schächten (Hebrew, schochat).
Italian Synonym. Sbasire (literally 'to cause to faint' or 'swoon.' Sbasire su le funi = to swoon on the rope, i.e., to be hanged).
Spanish Synonyms. Apretar á uno la nuez (properly to clutch the Adam's apple, i.e., the throat); apiolar (properly 'to gyve a hawk' or 'to tie game together by the legs'; and metaphorically, 'to seize' or apprehend); despabilar (literally 'to snuff a candle.' Cf., Fr. moucher le quinquet and the Eng. 'to put on an extinguisher'); apercollar (also, 'to seize one by the collar').
1851-61. H. Mayhew, London Lab. and Lon. Poor, vol. III., p. 360. When the clarences, the cabs that carry four, came in, they cooked the hackney-coachmen in no time.
1853. Rev. E. Bradley ('Cuthbert Bede'), Adventures of Verdant Green, p. 270. Billy's too big in the Westphalia's gig-lamps, you're the boy to cook Fosbrooke's goose.
1861. A. Trollope, Framley Parsonage, ch. xlii. Chaldicotes, Gagebee, is a cooked goose, as far as Sowerby is concerned. And what difference could it make to him whether the Duke is to own it or Miss Dunstable.
1865. G. A. Sala, Trip to Barbary, ch. v. The first Napoleon . . . once nearly killed himself by his addictedness to Provençal cookery. Yes; a mess of mutton and garlic—'tis said it was poisoned—very nearly cooked the goose of Achilles.
1877. Five Years' Penal Servitude, ch. ii., p. 128. Seeing how the fellow was acting he sent him two 'shise' notes, which gave him a dose that cooked him. I saw the man myself, serving his time at Dartmoor.
