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Danger vs Dander - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between danger and dander

is that danger is (obsolete) ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise see in one's danger, below while dander is dandruff—scaly white dead skin flakes from the human scalp or dander can be (slang) passion, temper, anger usually preceded by "have" or "get" and followed by "up".

As verbs the difference between danger and dander

is that danger is (obsolete) to claim liability while dander is to wander about.

danger

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See In one's danger, below.
    • "You stand within his danger , do you not?" (Shakespeare, ''Merchant of Venice'', 4:1:180)
  • * Robynson (More's Utopia)
    • Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in danger of this statute.
  • (obsolete) Liability.
  • * 1526 , Bible , tr. William Tyndale, Matthew V:
    • Thou shalt not kyll. Whosoever shall kyll, shalbe in daunger of iudgement.
  • (obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness.
    • (Chaucer)
  • (obsolete) Coyness; disdainful behavior.
    • (Chaucer)
  • (obsolete) A place where one is in the hands of the enemy.
  • Exposure to liable harm.
    • "Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars" ((William Hazlitt), ''Table talk'').
  • An instance or cause of liable harm.
    • "Two territorial questions..unsettled..each of which was a positive danger to the peace of Europe" (''Times'', 5 Sept. 3/2).
  • Mischief.
    • "We put a Sting in him, / That at his will he may doe danger with" (Shakespeare, ''Julius Caesar'', 2:1:17).

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * kicking in danger

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To claim liability.
  • (obsolete) To imperil; to endanger.
  • (obsolete) To run the risk.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "danger")

    Related terms

    * dangerous * dungeon * domain * dame * endanger

    References

    * Oxford English Dictionary

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    dander

    English

    (wikipedia dander)

    Etymology 1

    Alteration of dandruff

    Noun

    (-)
  • Dandruff—scaly white dead skin flakes from the human scalp.
  • Hair follicles and dead skin shed from mammals.
  • Allergen particles that accumulate on and may be shed from the skin and fur of domestic animals, especially from household pets such as cats and dogs.

    • Etymology 2

    (en)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (slang) Passion, temper, anger. Usually preceded by "have" or "get" and followed by "up".
    • He'll get his dander up if his team is criticized.
    She has her dander up every day about discrimination against women.

    See also

    * knee-jerk (Passion, temper, anger)

    Etymology 3

    Alteration of dandle or daddle

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To wander about.
  • * , Episode 16
    • So as neither of them were particularly pressed for time, as it happened, and the temperature refreshing since it cleared up after the recent visitation of Jupiter Pluvius, they dandered along past by where the empty vehicle was waiting without a fare or a jarvey
  • To maunder, to talk incoherently.
    • Derived terms
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