madge n.
1. a woman.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Appius and Virginia in (1908) 12: And all for Maud Mumble-turd, that mange-pudding Madge. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Of Virgil his Æneis VI: What shall I doo therefore? Shall I now, lyk a castaway milkmadge, On mye wooers formoure bee fawning? | |
| Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes in Dyce (1861) 516: Thous go to church in this coat bevore Madge a Sunday in her grey gown. |
2. (also madgery) the female genitals.
| Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
| ‘Ladies’ Wigs’ in Hilaria 82: Pray, ma’am, does the colour of your scratch / WEith the hair of your madgery match? | |
| late 17C ballad q. in Sporting World 19 Apr. 49/2: Her ruffledum, puffledum, frizzledum madge. | |
| Tilly Touchitt 32: He proceeded [...] to gratify his sight and touch, with every particularity poor Madge could discover to him. | |
| 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.
| New Dict. Cant (1795) n.p.: madge a sodomite. |
4. see Madge Howlet n. (1)
In compounds
a homosexual man.
| Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc. 5: Madge Coves — infamy itself — men who enact the parts of women. |
(UK Und.) a homosexual man.
| View of Society II 85: Madge Culls. This is one of the most abandoned and infamous characters that disgrace Society [...] The name of the vice which is here intended is better omitted than experienced. | |
| New Dict. Cant (1795) n.p.: madge cull a buggerer. | |
| Lex. Balatronicum. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Lingo 115: There seems to have been no shortage of terms used either by homosexuals themselves and/or by non-homosexuals, such as [...] margery, mary-ann, madge-cull and, what was once the great Australian insult, poofter. |
the vagina.