mange
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From Middle English manjewe, manjeue, from Old French manjue, derived from mangier (“to eat”) (modern French manger (“to eat”)), from Latin manducare.
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mange (usually uncountable, plural manges)
- (veterinary medicine) A skin disease of nonhuman mammals caused by parasitic mites (Sarcoptes spp., Demodecidae spp.).
- 1621, William Rowley, Thomas Dekker, John Ford, The Witch of Edmonton:
- Not yet come! [the] worrying of wolves, biting of mad dogs, the manges, and the—
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- Colloquially used with an article, to have the mange.
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skin disease
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mange
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- Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co.
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mange
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mange
- inflection of manger:
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mange
- to eat
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mange
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mange ?
Norwegian Bokmål edit
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mange (comparative fler or flere, indefinite superlative flest, definite superlative fleste)
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mange
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- “mange” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
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mange (comparative fleire, superlative flest)
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mange
- Alternative form of mang ein
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- “mange” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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màǹgè (plural màǹgèzhì)
- pitcher; pot (in particular) a clay water pot with a long neck
- Yinzàgi è lá màǹgè kpetí u bo. ― The woman is putting a clay pitcher on her head.
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- màǹgè bàkóm̄bàgizhì (“twin shrine”)
- màǹgè bùrù (“pot with large flange”)
- màǹgègegé (“bride's pot”)
- màǹgègi (“smaller pitcher with handles”)
- màǹgègi tàdáwa (“ink pot”)
- màǹgègi yàwó (“bride's pot”)
- màǹgèta (“place for storing pots”)