chourin

Updated: May 31, 2025

While I am thus showing off my small acquaintance with the Romany language, I must notice a few words of French slang which our thieves have borrowed from the gipsies. From Les Mysteres de Paris honest folk have learned that the word chourin means "a knife." This is pure Romany tchouri is one of the words which is common to every dialect.

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