Mariol, mariolle, adj. and m. (popular and thieves’), cunning, “downy, or fly to wot’s wot.”
Mariolisme, m. (popular and thieves’), cunning.
Mariolle, m. and adj. (popular and thieves’), cunning, knowing man, a deep or artful one, “one who has been put up to the hour of day, who is fly to wot’s wot.” Termed also a “file,” originally a term for a pickpocket, when to file was to cheat and to rob.
C’est d’nature, on a ça dans l’sang:
J’suis paillasson! c’est pas d’ma faute,
Je m’fais pas plus marioll’ qu’un aut’e:
Mon pèr’ l’était; l’Emp’reur autant!
Gill, La Muse à Bibi.
Marionnette, f. (popular), soldier, or “grabby.”
Mari Robin (Breton cant), gendarmes.