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