Argot and slang : $b a new French and English dictionary of the cant words, quaint expressions, slang terms and flash phrases used in the high and low life of old and new ParisBarrère, Albert
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Argot and slang : $b a new French and English dictionary of the cant words, quaint expressions, slang terms and flash phrases used in the high and low life of old and new Paris
Barrère, Albert
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C’est-y que t’es maboul?
dit l’chef.--J’suis pas maboul, que je réponds.
--=G. COURTELINE.=
MAC, _m._ (popular), abbreviation of “maquereau,” _girl’s bully_, or
“Sunday man.” For synonyms see POISSON. The term also applies to any
man living at a woman’s expense.
MACA, _f._ (popular), _mistress of a bawdy-house_. Termed also “Mère
Maca” or “macquecée.” Maca suiffée, _a rich proprietress of a house of
ill-fame_. Maca, _the Paris Morgue or dead-house_. From machabée.
MACABÉE, _m._ (common). See MACHABÉE.
MACACHE (military), _no_; ---- bono, _no good_.
Allons, les deux rosses, debout!...--Pourquoi donc faire
faut-y qu’on se lève?--Pour aller, reprit l’adjudant,
casser la glace des abreuvoirs. Là dessus, assez
causé: debout!...--Debout à trois heures du matin? Ah!
macache.--=G. COURTELINE.=
MACADAM, _m._ (familiar and popular), faire le ----, _to walk to and
fro on the pavement as a prostitute_. Fleur de ----, _street-walker_.
See GADOUE. Le général ----, _the public_. (Popular) Macadam, _sweet
white wine of inferior quality_.
Chez nous c’est sous le noir et bas plafond d’un bouge
que les voyous blafards, couleur tête de veau, font la
vendange. Ils ont pour vin doux et nouveau le liquide
appelé macadam, une boue jaunâtre fade.--=RICHEPIN=, _Le
Pavé_.
MACAIRE, _m._ (familiar and popular), un Robert ----, _a swindler_,
_one of_ the “swell mob.” Robert Macaire is a character in a play
called _L’Auberge des Adrets_.
MACAIRISME, _m._ (familiar), _any act referring to swindling
operations_.
MACARON, _m._ (popular), huissier, _kind of attorney_; (thieves’)
_informer, one who_ “blows the gaff,” a “snitcher.”
Cet homme qui criait si fort contre ceux que les gens de
sa sorte nomment des macarons s’est un des premiers mis à
table.--=VIDOCQ.= (_That very man who complained so much of
those whom such people term traitors has been one of the
first to inform._)
MACARONNAGE, _m._ (thieves’), _informing against_, “blowing the gaff.”
MACARONNER (thieves’), _to inform against_, “to blow the gaff,” or “to
turn snitch.” Se ----, _to run away_, “to guy.” See PATATROT.
MACCHOUX, _m._ (popular), _prostitute’s bully_, or “Sunday man.” See
POISSON.
MACÉDOINE, _f._ (engine drivers’), _fuel_.
MACHABÉ, _adj._ (popular), _drunk_. J’ai trop picté, je suis à moitié
----, _I have been drinking too much, I am half drunk_
MACHABÉE, _m._ (popular), _gay girls’ bully_, or “ponce”; see POISSON;
_Jew_, “mouchey, Ikey, or sheney;” _body of a drowned person_.
Je ne vois d’autre origine à cette expression que la
lecture du chap. xii. du deuxième livre des Machabées, qui
a encore lieu aux messes des morts; ou plutôt c’est de là
que sera venue la danse macabre, dont l’argot a conservé le
souvenir.--=MICHEL.=
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