jaspiner

Updated: May 9, 2025

Now, I retain in my memory, from reading the Memoirs of Vidocq thirty years ago, one or two phrases of this French thieves' slang, and I at once replied that I knew a few words of it myself, adding "Tu sais jaspiner en bigorne?" you can talk argot? "Oui, monsieur." "Et tu vas roulant de vergne en vergne?" and you go about from town to town?

Charles Godfrey Leland - The English Gipsies and Their Language