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gager
English
Etymology
gage +? -er
Noun
gager (plural gagers)
- A measurer.
See also
- gauger
Anagrams
- Garge, Grega, agger, eggar, regag
French
Etymology
From gage or from Old French guagier, itself from guage or from a derivative of Frankish *waddi, *wadja, possibly through a Vulgar Latin intermediate *wadiare from *wadium. Compare English to wage and wager, which came from the same source via an Anglo-Norman/Old Northern French variant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a.?e/
Verb
gager
- to guarantee
- to wager or bet
Conjugation
This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written gage- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a “soft” /?/ and not a “hard” /?/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.
Further reading
- “gager” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle English
Noun
gager
- Alternative form of gauger
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eager
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?i??/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?i???/
- Rhymes: -i???(?)
Etymology 1
From Middle English egre, eger, from Old French egre (French aigre), from Latin acer (“sharp, keen”); see acid, acerb, etc. Compare vinegar, alegar.
Alternative forms
- aigre (obsolete)
- eagre (obsolete)
Adjective
eager (comparative more eager, superlative most eager)
- Desirous; keen to do or obtain something.
- 1887, John Keble, s:The Christian Year
- When to her eager lips is brought / Her infant's thrilling kiss.
- a crowd of eager and curious schoolboys
- 1887, John Keble, s:The Christian Year
- (computing theory) Not employing lazy evaluation; calculating results immediately, rather than deferring calculation until they are required.
- an eager algorithm
- (dated) Brittle; inflexible; not ductile.
- gold itself will be sometimes so eager, (as artists call it), that it will as little endure the hammer as glass itself
- (obsolete) Sharp; sour; acid.
- (obsolete) Sharp; keen; bitter; severe.
Synonyms
- keen
- raring
- fain (archaic)
Derived terms
- eager beaver
- eagerly
- eagerness
Translations
Etymology 2
See eagre.
Noun
eager (plural eagers)
- Alternative form of eagre (tidal bore).
Further reading
- eager in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- eager in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- eager at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- aeger, agree, eagre, geare, æger
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