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Leger vs Aeger - What's the difference?

leger | aeger |

As adjectives the difference between leger and aeger

is that leger is light (not heavy) while aeger is (dated|british school slang) absent and excused from one’s classes due to illness.

As a noun aeger is

(dated|british school slang) an excused absence from classes due to illness.

leger

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) light; slender; slim; trivial
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • Lying or remaining in a place; hence, resident.
    • leger ambassador

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything that lies in a place; that which, or one who, remains in a place.
  • A minister or ambassador resident at a court or seat of government; also lieger, leiger.
  • * Fuller
    • Sir Edward Carne, the queen's leger at Rome
  • A ledger.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To engage in bottom fishing.
    • (Webster 1913) ----

    aeger

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (dated, British school slang) Absent and excused from one’s classes due to illness
  • (dated, British school slang) Relating to such an excused absence

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dated, British school slang) An excused absence from classes due to illness
  • (dated, British school slang) A note excusing a student from classes due to illness