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Wager vs Wanger - What's the difference?

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In lang=en terms the difference between wager and wanger

is that wager is a contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event while wanger is the penis.

As nouns the difference between wager and wanger

is that wager is something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge while wanger is a rest or cushion for the cheek; a pillow.

As a verb wager

is to bet something; to put it up as collateral.

wager

English

(Webster 1913)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) wageure'', from ''wagier'' "to pledge" (compare Old French guagier, whence modern French gager). See also ''wage .

Noun

(wikipedia wager) (en noun)
  • Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.
  • * Sir W. Temple
    • Besides these Plates, the Wagers may be as the Persons please among themselves, but the Horses must be evidenced by good Testimonies to have been bred in Ireland.
  • * Bentley
    • If any atheist can stake his soul for a wager against such an inexhaustible disproportion, let him never hereafter accuse others of credulity.
  • (legal) A contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event.
    • (Bouvier)
  • That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bet something; to put it up as collateral
    • I'd wager my boots on it.
  • (figuratively) To daresay.
    • I'll wager that Johnson knows something about all this.
    Synonyms
    * (to daresay) lay odds

    Etymology 2

    From the verb, to wage + .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Agent noun of wage; one who wages.
  • * 1912 , Pocumtack Valley Memorial Association, History and Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association , p. 65:
    • They were wagers of warfare against the wilderness and the Indians, and founders of families and towns.
  • * 1957 , Elsa Maxwell, How to Do It; Or, The Lively Art of Entertaining , p. 7:
    • Hatshepsut was no wager of wars, no bloodstained conqueror.
    English agent nouns

    wanger

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A rest or cushion for the cheek; a pillow.

    • Etymology 2

    Related to (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) The penis.
  • * 2008 , John Patrick, Country Boys City Boys (page 160)
    • Just as he was about to plunge his wanger into Jonny, Jones arrived.