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sarge | sare |

As a noun sarge

is sergeant.

As a verb sarge

is to go out and engage women in order to pick them up.

As an adjective sare is

dry, withered.

As an adverb sare is

much, very much, greatly.

sarge

English

Etymology 1

Shortened from sergeant.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (colloquial) sergeant
  • Usage notes
    * Like mom, dad, or doctor, Sarge can function either as a title, a simple shortening of "sergeant," or a substitute name for the bearer of that title, e.g. Sarge, a character from the American comic strip .

    Etymology 2

    Coined by Ross Jeffries, after his cat Sarge.

    Verb

  • (seduction community) to go out and engage women]] in order to [[pick up, pick them up
  • * 2010 , Charlotte Allen, The New Dating Game :
  • Jeffries pioneered the coinage of distinctive seduction lingo—his most widely used neologism: “sarging ,” named after his cat Sarge and meaning trolling the bars for desirable women—as well as the use of the Internet.
    English eponyms

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    * ---- ==Jèrriais==

    Noun

    (f)
  • serge
  • ----

    sare

    English

    Alternative forms

    * sear

    Adjective

  • (British, archaic) dry, withered
  • Burn ash-wood green, 'tis a fire for a queen;
    Burn ash-wood sare , 'twool make a man sware.
  • (dialectal, Kent, archaic) tender, rotten
  • (dialectal, Northern England, archaic) melancholy, bad, severe
  • Adverb

  • (UK, dialectal, Northern England, archaic) much, very much, greatly