Menage vs Menace - What's the difference?
menage | menace |
A household; a domestic situation.
* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 39:
A group of people living together in a sexual relationship.
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a perceived threat or danger
* Dryden
the act of threatening
an annoying and bothersome person
To make threats against (someone); to intimidate.
* Shakespeare
To threaten (an evil to be inflicted).
* Shakespeare
To endanger (someone or something); to imperil or jeopardize.
As a noun menage
is condiment set (found on dining tables).As a verb menace is
.menage
English
Alternative forms
* menageNoun
(en noun)- It smelled of ether and something else, possibly laudanum. I had never tried the mixture but it seemed to go pretty well with the Geiger ménage .
menace
English
Etymology 1
First attested ante 1300: from the (etyl) manace, menace, from the (etyl) .Noun
(menaces)- the dark menace of the distant war
References
* “menace, n.'']” listed in the '' [2nd Ed.; 1989
Etymology 2
First attested in 1303: from the (etyl) menacer, manecier, manechier and the (etyl) manasser, from the assumed , whence .Verb
(transitive'' or ''intransitive )- to menace a country with war
- My master did menace me with death.
- By oath he menaced / Revenge upon the cardinal.
References
* “menace, v.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989 ----