Jaeger

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See also: jaeger, jager, jeger, Jager, jäger, Jäger, and jæger

English

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

From the company name of Dr Gustav Jaeger's Sanitary Woollen Systems Co. Ltd.

Noun

Jaeger (plural Jaegers)

  1. The proprietary name of a range of woollen clothing; an item of woollen clothing.
    • 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 5, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 110:
      'I have a good comfortable dressing-gown of Jaeger material.'
    • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), page 445:
      His nether half was clad in lightweight Jaeger combinations which stretched to the ankle and through the fly-slit of which depended the royal member with its innocent pink tip.

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Jaeger

  1. Alternative form of Jäger: (informal) Jägermeister
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