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marge

marge

139 7.9
A soft spread made from vegetable oils used instead of butter
  • noun
  • /mɑrdʒ/
  • UK
translation icon : margarina
  • For a healthier option, many people use marge in their baking recipes.

Examples

  • The chef recommended using marge to make the dish lighter and more flavorful.

  • The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, But the queerest they ever did see Was that night on the marge Of Lake Lebarge

    Just Getting Started (2017)

  • They'd barbecue some burgers on the grill, and Marge would make her potato salad.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • She spread a thick layer of marge on her toast instead of butter.

Synonyms

margarine
vsmarge
20 1.0

A soft spread made from vegetable oil used instead of butter

is an informal short spoken form rather than the neutral standard name
oleo
vsmarge
  • Archaic
1 8.8

A spread made from vegetable oils used instead of butter

is an informal short spoken form rather than the familiar written label
oleomargarine
vsmarge
  • Archaic
6.9

A spread made from vegetable oils used instead of butter, often on bread

is an informal short spoken form rather than the longer formal written variant

Antonyms

butter
635 1.0

A soft yellow food made from cream used for cooking and spreading

How Butter-like

butter
635 1.0
ghee
3 5.8
marge
  • UK
139 7.9
spread
12 1.1

Surface Forms

marge singular
marges plural

Etymology

The word marge is a short form of margarine, and that name comes from the Greek root margar meaning 'pearl' because early makers thought the fat looked like little pearls, so they used a pearl-related name. So marge is a spread made from oils that you use like butter.