different between gagger vs gager

English

Etymology

gag +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æ??(r)

Noun

gagger (plural gaggers)

1. A piece of iron embedded in the sand of a mold to keep the sand in place.
2. (slang) An actor or performer who relies on gags (quips).
3. (slang, archaic) A hoaxer; a deceiver.
4. One who exhibits a gag reflex.
   • 2016, William S. Kroger, Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis in Medicine, Dentistry and Psychology

     When it is known that the patient is a gagger, dentures should not be constructed or even impressions made until after several therapeutic hypnotic sessions.

English

Etymology

gage +? -er

Noun

gager (plural gagers)

1. 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

1. to guarantee
2. 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

1. Alternative form of gauger