Musiquer (card-sharpers’), to mark a card with the nail.
Musser (popular), to smell.
Mutilés, m. pl. (military), soldiers of the punishment companies in Africa, who are sent there as a penalty for purposely maiming themselves in order to escape military service.
Mylord, m. (popular), hackney coach, “growler.”
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Nageant, or nageoir, m. (thieves’), fish.
Nageoires, f. pl. (popular), large whiskers in the shape of fins; arms, or “benders;” hands, or “fins.” Un monsieur à ——, a prostitute’s bully, or “pensioner.” For list of synonyms see [Poisson].
Naïf, m. (printers’), employer, or “boss.” The expression is scarcely used nowadays.
Le vieux pressier resta seul dans l’imprimerie dont le maître, autrement dit le “naïf,” venait de mourir.—Balzac.