/mɑɹd͡ʒ/, /mɑːd͡ʒ/
OriginFrom French marge, from Latin margo. Doublet of margin and margo.
- archaicMargin; edge; brink or verge.
“[…] And thy sea-marge, sterile and rocky-hard, / Where thou thyself dost air [...]”
“[F]lowers that in perennial blow / Round the moist marge of Persian fountains cling; […]”
“So be it: there no shade can last / In that deep dawn behind the tomb, / But clear from marge to marge shall bloom / The eternal landscape of the past; / A lifelong tract of time reveal'd; […]”
- Australia, Canada, Ireland, New-Zealand, UKMargarine.
“Or probably all meals coalesced with him in an orgy of thick bread-and-marge and an array of sauce-bottles.”
- Multicultural-London-EnglishMother.
“Had four bills and I bought me a car / Little red whip that I bought for my marge”
“I think about my family too. My dad and his failing heart. My marge and her church. I think about what they'll do once I'm gone. Think about the way out, the blue space above.”
- informalTo add margarine to.
- A diminutive of the female given names Marjorie or Margaret.
Formsmarges(plural) · marg(alternative) · marges(present, singular, third-person) · marging(participle, present) · marged(participle, past) · marged(past) · Marj(alternative)