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Danger vs Langer - What's the difference?

danger | langer |

As a noun danger

is (obsolete) ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise see in one's danger, below.

As a verb danger

is (obsolete) to claim liability.

As an adjective langer is

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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

    Anagrams

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    langer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, Ireland, pejorative) Fool; idiot; annoying or contemptible person (usually male).
  • * 1996 , Enda Walsh, Disco Pigs , ISBN 1854593986, p. 8:
    • "Give it up will ya! get a job, ja langer !"
  • * 2006 , September 3, Brendan O'Connor Roy: the discreet object of our desire, Irish Independent :
    • And central to it all is wind-up, making a langer out of people, to use that now unfortunate word that can still only be used correctly and said correctly by Cork people, even though the rest of the country has taken to it with gusto, embarrassing themselves like white people trying to talk black slang to be "street".
  • * 2006 November 22, Hurling abuse when there’s no team in sight, Irish Independent :
    • "Langers boy, every wan of ‘em. Golfers are only langers. They’re only golfing cos they can’t hurl. Anyone that golfs in Cork is only a failed hurler and a langer, boy. "
  • (slang, Ireland, vulgar) Penis.
  • * , "Taking on PJ" in Dublin Noir: The Celtic Tiger Vs. the Ugly American , ed. Ken Bruen, p.23, ISBN 1888451920:
    • Mike opened his knees wide, so that his langer would be framed by the gap between his legs. For first impressions a boner would have been good, but not likely.
  • * , All of These People: A Memoir , p.88, ISBN 0007176929:
    • He showed me a photograph. There was a woman and a man doing something, but I wasn't sure what. The man was standing over the woman holding his langer (the Cork word) and she was looking up at him smiling. I felt ill and started to walk backwards.

    Usage notes

    * Originally and mainly restricted to

    Synonyms

    * (annoying or contemptible person) dickhead, knob, asshole, shithead, wanker * (penis) See also

    Derived terms

    * langers, langered, acting the langer, langerload

    External links

    * The Gentrification of Langer?, Finbarr Barry, peoplesrepublicofcork * langer from the Hiberno-English archive

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