daunger

Middle English

Etymology

Late Anglo-Norman daunger, from an earlier dangier, dongier

Noun

daunger (plural daungers)

1. danger (peril, hazard)
2. 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

• daungerous

Descendants

• English: danger

See also

• daungere

Old French

Noun

daunger oblique singular, m (oblique plural daungers, nominative singular daungers, nominative plural daunger)

1. (Anglo-Norman) Late Anglo-Norman spelling of dangier