Mardi s’il fait chaud (popular), never (obsolete), at Doomsday, “when the devil is blind.”
Mare, or mariolle, adj. (popular and thieves’), clever, sharp, cunning, “leary,” or one who is “fly to wot’s wot.”
Marécageux, adj. (popular), œil ——, eye with languid expression, with a killing glance.
Margauder (familiar), to run down a person or thing.
Margoulette, f. (popular), rincer la —— à quelqu’un, to treat one to drink. Débrider la ——, to eat, “to put one’s nose in the manger.” See [Mastiquer]. Déboîter la —— à quelqu’un, to damage one’s countenance. Mettre la —— en compote, superlative of above.
Margoulin, m. (commercial travellers’), retailer.
Margoulinage (commercial travellers’), retailing.
Margouliner (commercial travellers’), to retail.
Margoulis, m. (popular), scandal.
Marguerites, f. pl. (popular), or —— de cimetière, white hairs in the beard.