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Marge

//mɑɹd͡ʒ// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A diminutive of the female given names Marjorie or Margaret.
Noun
  1. 1
    Margin; edge; brink or verge. archaic

    "[…] And thy sea-marge, sterile and rocky-hard, / Where thou thyself dost air [...]"

  2. 2
    Margarine. Australia, Canada, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, informal, uncountable, usually

    "Or probably all meals coalesced with him in an orgy of thick bread-and-marge and an array of sauce-bottles."

  3. 3
    Mother. Multicultural-London-English

    "Had four bills and I bought me a car / Little red whip that I bought for my marge"

  4. 4
    a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To add margarine to. informal

Etymology

Etymology 1

From French marge, from Latin margo. Doublet of margin and margo.

Etymology 2

Clipping of margarine.

Etymology 3

Clipping of margarine.

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