Madge
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English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mæd͡ʒ/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ædʒ
Proper noun
Madge
- A diminutive of the female given name Margaret or, rarely, Madonna.
- ~1886 William Ernest Henley, A Ballade of Ladies' Names, Gleeson White:Ballades and Rondeaus, Read Books 1887, page 19:
- Fie upon Caroline, Madge, Amelia - / These I reckon the essence of prose!
- ~1886 William Ernest Henley, A Ballade of Ladies' Names, Gleeson White:Ballades and Rondeaus, Read Books 1887, page 19:
- A surname.
- A town in Washburn County, Wisconsin, United States.
- (obsolete, slang) The vulva.
- 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, section VI:
- SALLY, who began to be tir'd with her Canonis'd Suitor, drew up the Curtain, alias her Hoop-Petticoat, &c. and clapping her Hand upon Madge, said, Ecce Signum, Doctor. This is my only Support, and I hope will continue so to my Life's End.