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madge

nounattested in dialogue

  • //mæd͡ʒ//

The barn owl.

noun

  1. 1

    archaicThe barn owl.

  2. 2

    archaicThe magpie.

Etymology

See the etymology at magpie for a related discussion.

Forms

plural
madges
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).