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The enigmatic "Madge" is a "what", not a "who". It is, a common, but crude, contemporary reference to the [[vagina]].<ref>The meaning of "Madge" is explained by [[Rowland Bowen]] in his ''Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development'', pp. 63&ndash;64. According to [[John Arlott]], the meaning of "Madge" was uncovered in the 1950s, from [[Francis Grose]]'s ''[[A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue]]'' (1785), to be "the private parts of a woman". (''Arlott on Cricket'', edited by [[David Rayvern Allen]], Fontana/Collins, 1985 edition, {{ISBN|0-00-637007-1}}, p. 10.)</ref>

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