Bernic : interj. A barnacle is a mollusc edible (gastropods), To shell conique.
Express that the hope that we have is ill-founded and will be disappointed.
– Quote from the French writer Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850): “You need money to be happy; without money, bernique! ".
– Quote from the American writer John Fante (1909-1983): “Arturo Bandini harnessed to his machine two days in a row without stopping, determined to succeed; but bernique it didn't work" in the novel Ask the dust (1939)