marde

French

Pronunciation

• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /maʁd/

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Noun

marde f (plural mardes)

1. (Quebec, New Brunswick, vulgar, slang) Alternative form of merde

   Ben tabarnak, ça sent la marde icitte!

   Holy fuck, it smells like shit in here!

   • 1996, Chrystine Brouillet, C'est pour mieux t'aimer, mon enfant, →ISBN, page 64:

     "Tu es trop jeune pour boire, dit Maurice.//Mange de la marde, riposta-t-elle en lui tournant aussitôt le dos."

     You're too young to drink, Maurice said.//Go eat shit! came the answer as she immediately whirled around.

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• damer, drame, merda

Romansch

Alternative forms

• mardi (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader)
• mardis (Sursilvan)
• margis (Sutsilvan)

Etymology

From Latin Mārtis diēs, variant of diēs Mārtis (“Tuesday”, literally “day of Mars)”).

Noun

marde m (plural mardes)

1. (Surmiran) Tuesday