Danger vs Sanger - What's the difference?
danger | sanger |
(obsolete) Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See In one's danger, below.
* Robynson (More's Utopia)
(obsolete) Liability.
* 1526 , Bible , tr. William Tyndale, Matthew V:
(obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness.
(obsolete) Coyness; disdainful behavior.
(obsolete) A place where one is in the hands of the enemy.
Exposure to liable harm.
An instance or cause of liable harm.
Mischief.
(obsolete) To claim liability.
(obsolete) To imperil; to endanger.
(obsolete) To run the risk.
* Oxford English Dictionary
(Australia, informal, colloquial) A sandwich.
* 1996 , , 2006,
* 2005 , R. T. Stone, The Journals: Into the Gulf , Book 2,
* 2009 , Justine Vaisutis, Australia , Lonely Planet,
* 2009 , Central Australia: Adelaide to Darwin ,
* 1895 , United States Cavalry Association, Journal of the United States Cavalry Association , Volume 8,
* 1902 , Great Britain House of Commons, Sessional Papers , Volume 69,
* 1976 , Byron Farwell, The Great Boer War ,
As nouns the difference between danger and sanger
is that danger is ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See In one's danger, below while sanger is a sandwich.As a verb danger
is to claim liability.As a proper noun Sanger is
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English
Noun
(en noun)- "You stand within his danger , do you not?" (Shakespeare, ''Merchant of Venice'', 4:1:180)
- Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in danger of this statute.
- Thou shalt not kyll. Whosoever shall kyll, shalbe in daunger of iudgement.
- (Chaucer)
- (Chaucer)
- "Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars" ((William Hazlitt), ''Table talk'').
- "Two territorial questions..unsettled..each of which was a positive danger to the peace of Europe" (''Times'', 5 Sept. 3/2).
- "We put a Sting in him, / That at his will he may doe danger with" (Shakespeare, ''Julius Caesar'', 2:1:17).
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* kicking in dangerVerb
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* (English Citations of "danger")References
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English
Etymology 1
Diminutive of sandwich; corruption of the earlier diminutive sango. Australian from 1960s.Noun
(en noun)page 140,
- I popped the last of the strawberry sangers into my mouth, craned my neck over the bureaucrat?s gelati-hued shoulder and feasted my eyes.
page 459,
- Allison did most of the talking telling Sara of her victory, of meeting Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova—who won the Family Circle Open—of rubbing the elbows with the Australian elite, and making sangers (sandwiches) for broken families in Brisbane.
page 94,
- Eat' Rock oysters, rock lobsters, yabbies and prawns; also Turkish bread ‘' sangers ’ and Tim Tam shooters
page 59,
- Winning pub-grub at this enduring pub boozer: steak sangers , veggie lasagne, lamb-shank pie, king-prawn salad and blueberry pancakes.
Synonyms
* sango (qualifier) * sarnie (qualifier)Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)page 223,
- The enemy had a line of sangers' along the far edge of nullah right across the valley, with ' sangers at intervals up the steep mountains on either side into the snows, and occupied, as far as we could guess, by some 2,000 men.
page 64,
- At 4.30 a.m., under cover of a mist in the donga, the Boers made a very severe attack on the north and west of my position, the brunt of the attack fell on two sangers' held by the Durham Company of Artillery; the Boers broke through the wire and got to within 20 yards of those ' sangers , but they both gallantly held their own and I, with the aid of the Maxim, was able to repulse the attack.
page 93,
- the Boer marksmen leaned over their sangers and fired on the helmeted heads below them.
