Marse vs Marge - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between marse and marge

is that marse is alternative form of nodot=yes|lang=en, often used as a general title of respect while marge is border; margin; edge; verge.

As a proper noun Marge is

a short form of the female given name Margaret.

marse

English

Alternative forms

* Marse

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete, dialectal, US, Caribbean) , often used as a general title of respect.

* ante 1887 , Innes Randolph, "Good Ol' Rebel Soldier":

I followed old Marse Robert for four year near about / Got wounded in three place and starved at Point Lookout

* {{quote-book, year=1941, author=Bernice Bowden, title=Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=My white folks was Ad White what owned me. Called him Marse' Ad. Don't call folks ' marse much now-days. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1941, author=Work Projects Administration, title=Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=All of marse Butler's people were Creek Indians. }}

Anagrams

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marge

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) marge, from (etyl) margo, of (etyl) origin.

Noun

(en noun)

Border; margin; edge; verge.

* 1610 , , act 4 scene 1

[...] And thy sea-marge , sterile and rocky-hard,

Where thou thyself dost air [...]

* 1874 ,

the long curved crest

Which swells out two leagues from the river marge .

* {{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."}}

Etymology 2

Shortened from the word margarine .

Noun

marge (uncountable )

(colloquial, UK, NZ) margarine.

Anagrams

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