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語源 1

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

名詞

marge (plural marges)

1. (archaic) Margin; edge; brink or verge.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

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

   • 1820, William Wordsworth, “The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets. Sonnet I.”, in The River Duddon: A Series of Sonnets: Vaudracour and Julia; and Other Poems. […], London: […] [Andrew and Robert Spottiswoode] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, […], →OCLC, page 3:

     [F]lowers that in perennial blow / Round the moist marge of Persian fountains cling; […]

   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XLV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 68:

     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; […]

   • 1870–1874, James Thomson, “The City of Dreadful Night”, in The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems, London: Reeves and Turner, […], published 1880, →OCLC, part I, page 5:

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

   • 1907, Robert W[illiam] Service, “The Cremation of Sam McGee”, in Songs of a Sourdough, Toronto, Ont.: William Briggs, →OCLC, stanza 10, page 38:

     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."

語源 2

Clipping of margarine.

別の表記

• marg

名詞

marge (usually uncountable, plural marges)

1. (informal, UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, Canada) Margarine.
   • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 246:

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

語源 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

名詞

marge (plural marges)

1. (MLE) Mother.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:mother

   • 2015, Stormzy, “Shut Up” (track 15), in Gang Signs & Prayer, performed by Stormzy:

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

   • 2018, Guy Gunaratne, In Our Mad and Furious City, London: Tinder Press, →ISBN, page unknown:

     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.

アナグラム

• Mager, e-gram, gamer, grame, magre, regma