merguez

merguez

English

Etymology

From French merguez, from Algerian Arabic مرقاز‎ (margāz).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɛə.ˈɡɛz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mɛɹ.ˈɡɛz/

Noun

merguez (uncountable)

1. A red, spicy sausage from North Africa, made with lamb or beef.

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Algerian Arabic مرقاز‎ (margāz).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛʁ.ɡɛz/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

merguez f (plural merguez)

1. merguez
2. (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]
3. (slang, by extension) a seemingly normal transaction that later turns out to be a scam

References

1. Le Courrier de Mantes, editor (accessed 23 January 2008), “Petit lexique du jargon des flics”, in (please provide the title of the work)‎, archived from the original on 2008-01-05

Further reading

• “merguez”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.