daunger
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Middle English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Late Anglo-Norman daunger, from an earlier dangier, dongier
Noun[edit]
daunger (plural daungers)
- danger (peril, hazard)
- coyness, disdainful behavior
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wyfe of Bathes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, lines 521-24:
- With daunger oute we al oure chaffare; / Greet prees at market maketh deere ware, / And to greet cheep is holde at litel prys: / This knoweth every womman that is wys.
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Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- English: danger
See also[edit]
Old French[edit]
Noun[edit]
daunger oblique singular, m (oblique plural daungers, nominative singular daungers, nominative plural daunger)
- (Anglo-Norman) Late Anglo-Norman spelling of dangier