Margo vs Marge - What's the difference?
margo | marge |
, a phonetic rendering of (etyl) Margot.
* 1998 , A Patchwork Planet , A.A.Knopf Inc., page 3:
*:"I like names that end with an a, don't you? Or other vowels? Most often it seems to be an a. But wait: Margo' s name ends with an o, for mercy's sake! Barnaby's mother. Or it used to be o. Then she met Barnaby's father and added a t."
Border; margin; edge; verge.
* 1610 , , act 4 scene 1
* 1874 ,
* {{quote-book
, year=1907
, title=(The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses)
, author=Robert W. Service
, chapter=(The Cremation of Sam McGee)
, passage=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."}}
(colloquial, UK, NZ) margarine.
Marge is a descendant of margo.
As proper nouns the difference between margo and marge
is that margo is {{given name|female|from=French}}, a phonetic rendering of French Margot while Marge is a short form of the female given name Margaret.As nouns the difference between margo and marge
is that margo is border, margin while marge is border; margin; edge; verge.margo
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Sophia looked at me. I told her, "Mom thought Margot with a t was higher class."
Anagrams
* ----marge
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) marge, from (etyl) margo, of (etyl) origin.Noun
(en noun)- [...] And thy sea-marge , sterile and rocky-hard,
- Where thou thyself dost air [...]
- the long curved crest
- Which swells out two leagues from the river marge .