bean : noun Dry bean. (word coming from fayol or Provencal fayol, and Latin phaseolus "Flageolet").
Dry bean: eat beans, a leg with beans.
Go peck some beans: go to prison.
Having eaten beans: being pregnant.
According to the Larousse dictionary at the start of the 1833th century, Fayot was a re-enlisted member of the navy. The origin of this meaning, dated XNUMX, would be in the analogy between the sailor who returns to the army as beans come back to the menu.
Fayot, and its derivative fayoter, in the sense of being zealous, comes from the conduct of certain sailors to be better served in beans during periods of food restriction.
When all the fresh provisions were consumed, the sailors were sailing "under Cap Fayot" and even when the pulses were running out, it was the end of the beans. In military slang, a fayot is a re-enlisted non-commissioned officer.
By extension (military and school slang.) The fayot is a person who is zealous to be seen well by his superiors. It's a bean! (ass-licking).
This term of bean appeared in the slang of the military navy in 1833 to designate the sailor who re-enlisted.