marge

noun

1. (archaic)Margin; 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; […]”

   “Upon an easy slope it lies at large, / And scarcely overlaps the long curved crest / Which swells out two leagues from the river marge, […]”

   “Till I came to the marge of Lake Lebarge, and a derelict there lay; / It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice it was called the "Alice May." / And I looked at it, and I thought a bit, and I looked at my frozen chum: / Then "Here," said I, with a sudden cry, "is my cre-ma-tor-eum."”

2. (Australia, Canada, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, uncountable, usually)Clipping of margarine.

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

3. (Multicultural-London-English)Mother.

   “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.”

verb

1. (informal)To add margarine to.

name

1. A diminutive of the female given names Marjorie or Margaret.