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Eager vs Yager - What's the difference?

eager | yager |

As nouns the difference between eager and yager

is that eager is alternative form of lang=en (tidal bore) while yager is a heavy, muzzle-loading hunting rifle.

As an adjective eager

is sharp; sour; acid.

eager

English

(Webster 1913)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) eger, from (etyl) egre (French aigre), from (etyl) ; see acid, acerb, etc. Compare vinegar, alegar.

Adjective

(er)
  • (obsolete) Sharp; sour; acid.
  • * Shakespeare
    • like eager droppings into milk
  • (obsolete) Sharp; keen; bitter; severe.
  • * Shakespeare
    • eager words
  • * Shakespeare
    • a nipping and an eager air
  • (rfc-sense) Excited by desire in the pursuit of any object; ardent to pursue, perform, or obtain; keenly desirous; hotly longing; earnest; zealous; impetuous; vehement.
  • * Keble
    • When to her eager lips is brought / Her infant's thrilling kiss.
  • * Hawthorne
    • a crowd of eager and curious schoolboys
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=19 citation , passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. […]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.}}
  • Brittle; inflexible; not ductile.
  • * John Locke
    • Gold will be sometimes so eager , as artists call it, that it will as little endure the hammer as glass itself.
  • (comptheory) Not employing lazy evaluation; calculating results immediately, rather than deferring calculation until they are required.
    • an eager algorithm
    Synonyms
    * raring
    Derived terms
    * eager beaver * eagerly * eagerness

    Etymology 2

    See (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (tidal bore).

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    yager

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, obsolete) A heavy, muzzle-loading hunting rifle
  • *{{quote-book, year=1857, author=Mayne Reid, title=The War Trail, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=There are fourscore of them; and but that each carries a yager rifle in his hand, a knife in his belt, and a Colt's pistol on his thigh, you could not discover the slightest point of resemblance between any two of them. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1874, author=Mayne Reid, title=The Death Shot, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Many present identify it as the yager usually carried by Clancy. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1879, author=William F. Cody, title=The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=We were each armed with a Mississippi yager and two Colt's revolvers. }}
  • A , an elite soldier of the Austrian army
  • *{{quote-book, year=1863, author=Arthur J. L. (Lieut.-Col.) Fremantle, title=Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Most of the officers were dressed in
  • *{{quote-book, year=1901, author=Maurus Jokai, title=Manasseh, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=A battalion of yagers , the pride of the Austrian army, charged up the fatal hill and succeeded in taking it, after which the rattle of musketry beyond announced that the fight was being continued on the farther side. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1926, author=John Marshall, title=The Life of George Washington, Vol. 3 (of 5), chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Three days after this affair, Colonel Richard Butler, with a detachment of infantry, assisted by Major Lee with a part of his cavalry, fell in with a small party of chasseurs and yagers' under Captain Donop, which he instantly charged, and, without the loss of a man, killed ten on the spot, and took the officer commanding the chasseur, and eighteen of the ' yagers , prisoners. }}

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