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Marge Simpson
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English
Etymology
From Marge Simpson, a fictional character in the television show The Simpsons.
Noun
en informal figurative A wife who endures an irresponsible husband, especially a woman with a tall bouffant hairstyle.
en The New Yorker In Libya, the family was given a house but no keys, because the Great Leader had abolished private property; they returned home one day to find it occupied by another family. Food was scarce; sometimes they subsisted on bananas. Clementine was fired from her job reading the news in French on Libyan radio: she could not contain her laughter while quoting Qaddafi's threat to invade the United States and assassinate President Reagan. (She's the Marge Simpson of "The Arab of the Future," rolling her eyes as her husband quotes the maxims of Qaddafi's manifesto, "The Green Book.") 60 https://archive.org/details/newyorker20150000unse_oct19/mode/2up?q=%22the+marge+simpson+of%22 2015 F-R Pub. Corp. Drawing Blood Adam Schatz
en F-R Pub. Corp. The New Yorker a twenty-four-year-old girl from Southgate, London, who says she has the musical taste of "an old Jewish man" and wears her hair in a vertical pile she refers to as "my hive." (Is there a TMZ video of anyone else arranging her hair in publie? Winchouse is the Marge Simpson of junkie retro soul https://archive.org/details/new-yorker-the/2000-2009/2008/New%20Yorker%2C%20The%20%282008-03-03%29%20%28unz.org%29/mode/2up?q=%22the+marge+simpson+of%22 Amy's Circus Sasha Frere-Jones 76 Mar 3, 2008
en While hard-housing with BK in Dublin, Muzik was delighted to come across an impromptu appearance by the Marge Simpson of soul. (Macy Gray) https://archive.org/details/muzik080_january_2002/mode/2up?q=%22the+marge+simpson+of%22 January 2002 Muzik Saints & Sinners 19
en October 13, 2025 CollinZero drawing 1o3bzct nj76cj2 My new drawing It’s incredible! I love the expression you captured so well. The "hair" though is really funny. The Marge Simpson of pigeons! August 6, 2026 https://web.archive.org/web/20260806151646/https://www.reddit.com/r/drawing/comments/1o3bzct/comment/nj76cj2/
en terms derived from The Simpsons
en Fictional characters The Simpsons
en eponyms