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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English rager, raiger, ragere, equivalent to rage + -er.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɹeɪd͡ʒɚ/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
[edit]rager (plural ragers)
- (uncommon) One who rages.
- 2005, Paul Blum, Teacher's Guide to Anger Management, page 51:
- Ragers are feared and detested by teachers for their potential to destroy a lesson.
- (slang, US, Australia, New Zealand) A boisterous and out of control party.
- 2016 December 7, Peter Debruge, “Film Review: 'Office Christmas Party'”, in Variety (magazine)[1], Los Angeles, C.A.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-15:
- Clearly, the kernel of inspiration behind this whole out-of-control rager was nostalgia for less politically correct times.
- 2022 March 17, Julissa James, “Inside most legendary streetwear brand party in Los Angeles”, in Los Angeles Times[2], Los Angeles, L.A.: Los Angeles Times Communications LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-07:
- Part of the Born X Raised story, almost unintentionally, has become their big — and growing only bigger — ragers.
- 2022 June 10, “Canada’s housing frenzy was the party of all parties. Get ready for a hangover”, in The Globe and Mail[3], Toronto, O.N.: The Woodbridge Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-29:
- Experts urged interventions to break the fever, but unlike the last mini-mania, in 2016-17, policy makers pretty much did nothing while the Bank of Canada, understandably concerned about the pandemic-beset economy, made sure money stayed cheap. The house party kept on partying. It was a rager, and no one called the cops.
- 2022 June 22, Selim Algar, “Incensed owner of $8M Florida mansion ransacked by teens wants them prosecuted”, in New York Post[4], New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-03:
- The homeowner theorized that the intruders saw that the house was up for sale and targeted it for their rager.
- (slang) A raging erection; a massive erection of the penis.
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “rager n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
Anagrams
[edit]Danish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]rager
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From rageren (“to brush”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “check, please: is it from ragen or rageren?”)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rager m (plural ragers, diminutive ragertje n)
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Verb
[edit]rager
- to rage
Conjugation
[edit]This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written rage- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a "soft" /ʒ/ and not a "hard" /ɡ/). This spelling change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.
Conjugation of rager (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | rager | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | rageant /ʁa.ʒɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | ragé /ʁa.ʒe/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | rage /ʁaʒ/ |
rages /ʁaʒ/ |
rage /ʁaʒ/ |
rageons /ʁa.ʒɔ̃/ |
ragez /ʁa.ʒe/ |
ragent /ʁaʒ/ |
imperfect | rageais /ʁa.ʒɛ/ |
rageais /ʁa.ʒɛ/ |
rageait /ʁa.ʒɛ/ |
ragions /ʁa.ʒjɔ̃/ |
ragiez /ʁa.ʒje/ |
rageaient /ʁa.ʒɛ/ | |
past historic2 | rageai /ʁa.ʒe/ |
rageas /ʁa.ʒa/ |
ragea /ʁa.ʒa/ |
rageâmes /ʁa.ʒam/ |
rageâtes /ʁa.ʒat/ |
ragèrent /ʁa.ʒɛʁ/ | |
future | ragerai /ʁaʒ.ʁe/ |
rageras /ʁaʒ.ʁa/ |
ragera /ʁaʒ.ʁa/ |
ragerons /ʁaʒ.ʁɔ̃/ |
ragerez /ʁaʒ.ʁe/ |
rageront /ʁaʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | ragerais /ʁaʒ.ʁɛ/ |
ragerais /ʁaʒ.ʁɛ/ |
ragerait /ʁaʒ.ʁɛ/ |
ragerions /ʁa.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rageriez /ʁa.ʒə.ʁje/ |
rageraient /ʁaʒ.ʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | rage /ʁaʒ/ |
rages /ʁaʒ/ |
rage /ʁaʒ/ |
ragions /ʁa.ʒjɔ̃/ |
ragiez /ʁa.ʒje/ |
ragent /ʁaʒ/ |
imperfect2 | rageasse /ʁa.ʒas/ |
rageasses /ʁa.ʒas/ |
rageât /ʁa.ʒa/ |
rageassions /ʁa.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ |
rageassiez /ʁa.ʒa.sje/ |
rageassent /ʁa.ʒas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | rage /ʁaʒ/ |
— | rageons /ʁa.ʒɔ̃/ |
ragez /ʁa.ʒe/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “rager”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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