Marge Simpson

plural Marge Simpsons

1. figurativelyinformalA wife who endures an irresponsible husband, especially a woman with a tall bouffant hairstyle.

   It’s incredible! I love the expression you captured so well. The "hair" though is really funny. The Marge Simpson of pigeons!

   2025 October 13, CollinZero, “My new drawing”, in reddit.com, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2026

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   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.")

   2015, Adam Schatz, “Drawing Blood”, in The New Yorker, F-R Pub. Corp., page 60

   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

   2008 March 3, Sasha Frere-Jones, “Amy's Circus”, in The New Yorker, F-R Pub. Corp., page 76

   While hard-housing with BK in Dublin, Muzik was delighted to come across an impromptu appearance by the Marge Simpson of soul. (Macy Gray)

   2002 January, “Saints & Sinners”, in Muzik, page 19