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wager
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?we?d??/
- Rhymes: -e?d??(?)
Etymology 1
From Middle English wajour, wageour, wager, from Old Northern French wageure, from wagier (“to pledge”) (compare Old French guagier, whence modern French gager). See also wage.
Noun
wager (plural wagers)
- Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.
- 1842-43, Edgar Allan Poe, "The Mystery of Marie Roget"
- “This thicket was a singular, an exceedingly singular one. It was unusually dense. Within its naturally walled enclosure were three extraordinary stones, forming a seat with a back and footstool.[...] , whose boys were in the habit of closely examining the shrubberies about them in search of the bark of the sassafras. Would it be a rash wager – a wager of one thousand to one – that a day never passed over the heads of these boys without finding at least one of them ensconced in the umbrageous hall, and enthroned upon its natural throne? Those who would hesitate at such a wager, have either never been boys themselves, or have forgotten the boyish nature."
- 1842-43, Edgar Allan Poe, "The Mystery of Marie Roget"
- That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.
- (law) A contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event.
- 1673, Sir William Temple, Advancement of Trade in Ireland
- Besides these Plates, the Wagers may be as the Persons please among themselves, but the Horses must be evidenced by good Testimonies to have been bred in Ireland.
- If any atheist can stake his soul for a wager against such an inexhaustible disproportion, let him never hereafter accuse others of credulity.
- 1673, Sir William Temple, Advancement of Trade in Ireland
- (law) An offer to make oath.
Derived terms
- wager of battel, wager of battle
- wager of law
Translations
Verb
wager (third-person singular simple present wagers, present participle wagering, simple past and past participle wagered)
- (transitive) To bet something; to put it up as collateral
- (intransitive, figuratively) To suppose; to dare say.
Synonyms
- (to daresay): lay odds
Translations
Etymology 2
From the verb, wage +? -er.
Noun
wager (plural wagers)
- Agent noun of wage; one who wages.
- 1912, Pocumtack Valley Memorial Association, History and Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, p. 65:
- They were wagers of warfare against the wilderness and the Indians, and founders of families and towns.
- 1912, Pocumtack Valley Memorial Association, History and Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, p. 65:
Middle English
Noun
wager
- Alternative form of wajour
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wagger
English
Etymology
wag +? -er
Noun
wagger (plural waggers)
- One who, or that which, wags.
- a finger-wagger
- waggers of tongues
- A truant, notably who ditches school.
Anagrams
- Wragge
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