noun
marge
mahj
noun
1
An edge, border, or margin.
"They pitched their tent on the marge of the lake."
2
British informal shortening of margarine.
"Pass the marge for the toast, would you?"
How to Use Marge
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishEither a literary word for an edge/border, or informal British slang for margarine.
When to use it
The margarine sense is casual British English; the "edge" sense is literary and old-fashioned.
Easily confused with
Word Forms
marged past tense, marges plural, marges plural, marges singular
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Etymology
From French marge, from Latin margo — a doublet of margin and margo.