merguez
English
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Etymology
[edit]From French merguez, from Algerian Arabic مرقاز (margāz).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]merguez (uncountable)
- A red, spicy sausage from North Africa, made with lamb or beef.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Algerian Arabic مرقاز (margāz).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]merguez f (plural merguez)
- merguez
- (slang) a car that has been modified—as by filing away its engine number, or including components from different cars—to make it harder to identify or to conceal damage from an accident.[1]
- (slang, by extension) a seemingly normal transaction that later turns out to be a scam
References
[edit]- ^ Le Courrier de Mantes, editor (2008 January 23 (last accessed)), “Petit lexique du jargon des flics”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1], archived from the original on 5 January 2008
Further reading
[edit]- “merguez”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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