单词 | marge |
释义 | margen.1 Now chiefly poetic. 1. a. An edge or border of something; esp. a river bank, shore; = margin n. 1a, 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > [noun] brerdc1000 hemc1200 barmc1340 cantc1375 margina1382 boardc1400 borderc1400 brinkc1420 edgea1450 verge1459 brim1525 rind1530 margent1538 abuttal1545 marge1551 skirt1566 lip1592 skirt1598 limb1704 phylactery1715 rim1745 rand1829 1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. ii. lxxvi The marge or edge of the circumference of the circle. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. viii. sig. H7 As by the flowrie marge Of a fresh streame I with that Elfe did play. View more context for this quotation 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion ii. 25 So Pleasantlie in-Il'd on mightie Neptunes marge. 1753 T. Warton Ode Approach of Summer 92 Near the rush'd marge of Cherwell's flood. 1849 M. Arnold Strayed Reveller, & Other Poems 16 The ivy-wreath'd marge Of thy cup. 1850 W. Wordsworth Prelude viii. 226 The western marge of Thurston-mere. 1898 W. K. Johnson Terra Tenebrarum 72 By the marble marge of unstirred wells. 1928 E. Blunden Undertones of War xv. 165 The late owner had constructed two or three ponds in the grounds with white airy bridges spanning them, weeping willows at their marges. 1955 Times 7 June 7/4 The cosy but poetical sobriquet of ‘marge’—was once freely used by writers to describe the bank or shore of a mere, tarn, or torrent in which some sensitive young person contemplated the act of suicide. 1995 S. Barry Steward of Christendom 76 The bullet touched the grassy marge. b. In extended use. ΚΠ 1850 A. H. Clough Dipsychus ii. iv. 59 This narrow interspace, this marge, This list and selvedge of a glorious time. 1852 M. Arnold Empedocles on Etna, & Other Poems 97 For surely once, they feel, we were Parts of a single continent. Now round us spreads the watery plain—Oh might our marges meet again! 1876 F. W. Farrar In Days of Youth vi. 59 That great future which blooms..beyond the marge of death. 1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 70 Mind to-morrow's early meeting! We must have our journey marge Ample for the wayside wonders. 1929 C. Aiken Sel. Poems 329 Peer from the luminous grave's-edge into darkness That's filled from hub to marge with staring faces. 1942 K. A. Porter Let. 14 June (1990) iv. 239 Our future Tolstoi or Flaubert or even another Henry James is lurking out there on the marge, and we shan't snare him, or at least not this summer. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written text > layout > [noun] > space on page between edge and body of text margina1387 margent?a1475 marge1577 society > communication > printing > printed matter > arrangement or appearance of printed matter > [noun] > margin margent?a1475 marge1577 side lay1888 1577 M. Hanmer tr. Socrates Scholasticus vi. xii, in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. 370 (note) In the marge of the greeke copie there was written as followeth. 1657 J. Sergeant Schism Dispach't 74 As cited in the marge by himself. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Vivien in Idylls of King 128 Every page having an ample marge. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). margen.2 colloquial. Short for margarine n.Not in North American use. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fat or oil > [noun] > used in baking suet1675 shortening1796 marge1919 lard1974 margarine1996 the world > food and drink > food > fat or oil > [noun] > vegetable oil or margarine palm oil1625 vegetable oil1651 butter of mace1694 Negro-oil1753 sunflower oil1768 Galam butter1782 vegetable butter1790 vegetable fat1797 winter oil1811 butter substitute1834 red palm oil1836 butter oil1844 shea butter1847 palm butter1848 vegetable lard1859 palm-kernel oil1863 butterine1866 margarine1873 oleomargarine1873 bosch1879 oleo1884 oleo oil1884 vegetable shortening1892 Nucoline1894 almond butter1895 nut butter1896 Nutter1906 marge1919 Maggie Ann1931 sun oil1937 vanaspati1949 maggie1971 canola oil1982 1919 ‘Success’ Cookery Bk. (ed. 3) 59 4 oz. marg. and 3 oz. sugar. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. viii. [Lestrygonians] 145 Potatoes and marge, marge and potatoes. 1933 ‘G. Orwell’ Down & Out xxiv. 179 ‘No butter, only marg,’ she said, surprised. 1960 J. Betjeman Summoned by Bells vii. 70 In quieter tones we asked in Hall that night Neighbours to pass the marge. 1974 W. Foley Child in Forest ii. 161 The remembered slice of marge-spread toast. 1985 L. Blue Kitchen Blues 132 Stew them in a little lake of marge until soft. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Margen.3 U.S. slang. A lesbian whose appearance, behaviour, identity, etc., is seen as traditionally feminine; = femme n. 2b. See also Margery n.2 2. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [noun] > a homosexual person > female > whose appearance, behaviour, or identity is regarded as traditionally feminine bitch1923 Margery1936 femme1947 Marge1957 mom1957 lipstick lesbian1983 1957 J. M. Reinhardt Sex Perversions & Sex Crimes 48 Marge noun, The very feminine passive dyke. 1967 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang (new ed.) (Suppl.) Marge, a female homosexual who takes the passive, female role. 1983 L. R. N. Ashley in Maledicta 1982 6 133 From the Twenties:..Marge. 1991 L. Faderman Odd Girls & Twilight Lovers vii. 167 A functioning couple for them meant dichotomous individuals, if not male and female, then butch and femmes, or—as they later were called in some areas of the country,—‘masons and orders’ or ‘butch and Marge’. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † margev. Obsolete. rare. 1. intransitive. To be adjacent to. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > nearness > be near [verb (intransitive)] > be adjacent joinc1325 adjoin1425 marge1494 limit1613 sidea1647 verge1789 abut1826 1494 Loutfut MS f. 36v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) And thir leste [sc. petals] contenis & margis to the ȝalow coulour that is in the myddis of the ros. 2. transitive. To border, edge. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > form the edge of [verb (transitive)] > provide with an edge listc1330 urlec1330 borderc1400 embordera1533 edge1555 lip1607 inverge1611 marginate1611 brim1623 rim1709 margin1715 skirt1717 skirt1787 marge1852 1852 Fraser's Mag. 46 166 Little bays, marged with printless yellow sands. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < |
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