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Middle English
Etymology
Late Anglo-Norman daunger, from an earlier dangier, dongier
Noun
daunger (plural daungers)
- danger (peril, hazard)
- coyness, disdainful behavior
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wyfe of Bathes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
→OCLC; republished in [
William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
[
Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes ,
1542,
→OCLC, lines
521-24:
With daunger oute we al oure chaffare; / Greet prees at market maketh deere ware, / And to greet cheep is holde at litel prys: / This knoweth every womman that is wys.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants
See also
Old French
Noun
daunger oblique singular, m (oblique plural daungers, nominative singular daungers, nominative plural daunger)
- (Anglo-Norman) Late Anglo-Norman spelling of dangier