Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a woman.

1575		R.B. Appius and Virginia : Maud mumble turde, that mampodding madge / By the Gods if she hie not, ile geue her my badge.
1582		Stanyhurst Of Virgil his Æneis VI: What shall I doo therefore? Shall I now, lyk a castaway milkmadge, On mye wooers formoure bee fawning?
1592		R. Wilson The three ladies of London n.p.: Tell me, is it not a Lords life in summer to lowse one vnder a hedge, / And then leauing that game, may go clepe and coll his Madge?
1599		G. Peele Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes in Dyce (1861) 516: Thous go to church in this coat bevore Madge a Sunday in her grey gown.
1600		Dekker The shomakers holiday n.p.: [C]ome out you powder-beefe-queanes, what Nan, what Madge-mumble-crust, come out you fatte Midriffe-swag, belly-whores.

2. (also madgery) the female genitals.

1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1798		‘Ladies’ Wigs’ in Hilaria 82: Pray, ma’am, does the colour of your scratch / WEith the hair of your madgery match?
1845		late 17C ballad q. in Sporting World 19 Apr. 49/2: Her ruffledum, puffledum, frizzledum madge.
c.1886		Tilly Touchitt 32: He proceeded [...] to gratify his sight and touch, with every particularity poor Madge could discover to him.
2024		J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 208: The pain in the madge, the puffledum madge. [...] The visceral fear of being converted to mince from within.

3. (UK Und.) a homosexual man.

a.1790

H.T. Potter New Dict. Cant (1795) n.p.: madge a sodomite.

4. see Madge Howlet n. (1)