different between dagger vs dudgeon

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English daggere, probably adapted from Old French dague (1229), related to Occitan, Italian, Spanish daga, Dutch dagge, German Degen, Middle Low German dagge (“knife's point”), Old Norse daggardr, Welsh dager, dagr, Breton dac, Albanian thikë (“a knife, dagger”), thek (“to stab, to pierce with a sharp object”).

In English attested from the 1380s.The ultimate origin of the word is unclear. Grimm suspects Celtic origin.Others have suggested derivation from an unattested Vulgar Latin *daca "Dacian [knife]", from the Latin adjective d?cus. Chastelain (Dictionaire etymologique, 1750) thought that French dague was a derivation from German dagge, dagen, although not attested until a much later date).

The knightly dagger evolves from the 12th century. Guillaume le Breton (died 1226) uses daca in his Philippide. Other Middle Latin forms include daga, dagga, dagha, dagger, daggerius, daggerium, dagarium, dagarius, diga; the forms with -r- are late 14th century adoptions of the English word).OED points out that there is also an English verb dag (“to stab”) from which this could be a derivation, but the verb is attested only from about 1400.

Relation to Old Armenian ????? (daku, “adze, axe”) has also been suggested. Alternatively, a connection from Proto-Indo-European *d??g-u- and cognate with Ancient Greek ???? (th?g?, “to sharpen, whet”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?dæ??(?)/
• Rhymes: -æ??(r)

Noun

dagger (plural daggers)

2. (weaponry) A stabbing weapon, similar to a sword but with a short, double-edged blade.
4. (typography) The text character †; the obelus.
5. (basketball, American football) A point scored near the end of the game (clutch time) to take or increase the scorer's team lead, so that they are likely to win.

Synonyms

• (stabbing weapon): dirk, knife
• (text character): obelisk, obelus
• (anything that causes pain like a dagger) barb

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• poniard
• rondel
• stiletto

Verb

dagger (third-person singular simple present daggers, present participle daggering, simple past and past participle daggered)

1. To pierce with a dagger; to stab.

Etymology 2

Perhaps from diagonal.

Noun

dagger (plural daggers)

1. A timber placed diagonally in a ship's frame.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

References

Anagrams

• dragge, ragged

English

Etymology 1

Middle English dogeon, apparently from Anglo-Norman or Middle French, but the ultimate origin is obscure. Compare French douve (“stave”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?d??n/

Noun

dudgeon (plural dudgeons)

1. (obsolete) A kind of wood used especially in the handles of knives; the root of the box tree.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Gerarde (1597) to this entry?)

2. (obsolete) A hilt made of this wood.
   • "And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood" (Shakespeare, Macbeth)
3. (archaic) A dagger which has a dudgeon hilt.

Etymology 2

Origin uncertain:

• Perhaps the same as Etymology 1, above
• Perhaps from Welsh dygen (“anger, grudge”) (from dy- + cwyn (“complaint”)), though the OED rejects this.
• Possibly from dudgen (“trash, something worthless”).
• Possibly borrowed from Italian aduggiare (“to overshadow”), similar to the semantic development of umbrage.

Noun

dudgeon (uncountable)

1. A feeling of anger or resentment.

Usage notes

Usually found only in set terms, see below.

Derived terms

• humdudgeon
• in high dudgeon

References

Further reading

• “dudgeon”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.