MADAME (popular), Milord quépète, _lazy woman, who likes to lie in bed_; ---- Tiremonde (expression used by Rabelais), or Tire-pousse, _midwife_; (shopmen’s) ---- Canivet, _a female customer who cannot make up her mind, and leaves without purchasing anything, after having made the unfortunate shopman display all his goods_. MADELEINE, _f._ (card-sharpers’), faire suer la ----, _to cheat_, or “bite,” _with great difficulty_. MADELEN (Breton cant), _salt_. MADEMOISELLE MANETTE, _f._ (popular), _portmanteau_, or “peter.” MADRICE, _f._ (thieves’), _cunning_. Il a de la ----, _he is cunning_, or “is fly to wot’s wot.” MADRIN, MADRINE, _adj._ (thieves’), _cunning_, “leary, or fly to wot’s wot.” MADROUILLAGE, _m._ (thieves’), _bungle_. MA FIOLE (thieves’), _me_; _myself_, “my nibs.” Est-ce que tu te fiches de ----? _are you laughing at me?_ MAGASIN, _m._ (military), _military school_, “shop” at the R. M. Academy; (popular) ---- de blanc, or de fesses, _brothel_. MAGISTRAT’MUCHE, _f._ (thieves’), _magistracy_. Un pant’ de la ----, _a magistrate_, a “beak.” Termed “queer cuffin” in old cant. MAGNANIÈRE, _f._ (thieves’), de ----, _in order that_. Il fagaut dévider la retentissante de ---- à ne pas faire de l’harmonarès, _we must break the bell so as not to make any noise_. MAGNÉE, _f._ (thieves’), _prostitute_, or “bunter.” See GADOUE. MAGNES, _f. pl._ (popular), _affectation_, “high-falutin” _airs_. Faire des ----, _to make ceremonies_. As-tu fini tes ----? _none of your airs!_ “stop bouncing!” _I don’t take that in!_ From manières. MAGNETTE, _f._ (thieves’), _name_, or “monarch;” ---- blague, _false name_. Il fagaut la ---- blague de magnanière que tu ne sois paga, _you must take a false name lest you should be caught_. MAGNEUSE, MAGNUCE, MANIEUSE, _f._ (popular). Michel says: “Fille de joie, femme qui se déprave avec des individus de son sexe ... quelque allusion malveillante, et sans doute calomnieuse, à une communauté religieuse. Je veux parler des Magneuses, qui devaient ce nom à leur fondatrice.” MAGUER (popular), se ----, _to hurry_. MAIGRE, m. (thieves’), du ----! _silence!_ “mum your dubber.” Also _take care what you say_, or “plant the whids.” En vain se démanche-t-il à faire le signe qui doit le sauver, du maigre! du maigre! crie-t-il à tue-tête.--=VIDOCQ.= MAILLARD, _m._ (popular), fermer ----, _to sleep_, “to have a dose of balmy.” Fermeture ----, _sleep_, “balmy.” Etre terrassé par ----, _to be extremely sleepy_. In the above expressions an allusion is made to Maillard, the inventor of a peculiar kind of shutters. MAILLOCHER (bullies’), _is said of a bully who watches a prostitute to see she does not secrete any part of her earnings, which are the aforesaid_ “pensioner’s” _perquisites_.