Talk:dangerous

RFV discussion: February–April 2022

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dangerous

• (obsolete) Hard to suit; difficult to please.
  • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Freres 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:

    My wages ben fule straite, and eke full smale; / My lorde is harde to me and daungerous.

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• (obsolete) Reserved; not affable.
  • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Prologues”, 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:

    Of his speech daungerous

    (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Removed / moved to Middle English by Astova. J3133 (talk) 21:06, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

These should be citeable from EEBO (note alternative spelling daungerous). This, that and the other (talk) 08:43, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 02:10, 13 April 2022 (UTC)