subs. (American thieves’).—1. See quot. 1882.
1859. G. W. MATSELL, Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon, s.v.
1882. J. D. MCCABE, New York by Sunlight and Gaslight, xxxiv. 510 (in list of slang terms). MADGE, private places.
2. (venery).—See quots. For synonyms, see MONOSYLLABLE. Also MADGE-HOWLET.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
1811. GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v. MADGE. The private parts of a woman.
1850. HALLIWELL, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, etc., s.v. MADGE (3). The pudendum muliebre. South.
3. (Scots’).—A woman: partly in sport, and partly in contempt.—JAMIESON.
