Wagered vs Wafered - What's the difference?
wagered | wafered |
(wager)
Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.
* Sir W. Temple
* Bentley
(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.
That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.
To bet something; to put it up as collateral
(figuratively) To daresay.
Agent noun of wage; one who wages.
* 1912 , Pocumtack Valley Memorial Association, History and Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association , p. 65:
* 1957 , Elsa Maxwell, How to Do It; Or, The Lively Art of Entertaining , p. 7:
(wafer)
A light, thin, flat biscuit.
(religion) A thin disk of consecrated unleavened bread used in communion.
A soft disk originally made of flour, and later of gelatin or a similar substance, used to seal letters, attach papers etc.
* 1749 , (Henry Fielding), Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 202:
(electronics) A thin disk of silicon or other semiconductor on which an electronic circuit is produced.
As verbs the difference between wagered and wafered
is that wagered is (wager) while wafered is (wafer).wagered
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*wager
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(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)- 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.
- If any atheist can stake his soul for a wager against such an inexhaustible disproportion, let him never hereafter accuse others of credulity.
- (Bouvier)
Verb
(en verb)- I'd wager my boots on it.
- I'll wager that Johnson knows something about all this.
Synonyms
* (to daresay) lay oddsEtymology 2
From the verb, to wage + .Noun
(en noun)- They were wagers of warfare against the wilderness and the Indians, and founders of families and towns.
- Hatshepsut was no wager of wars, no bloodstained conqueror.
wafered
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(head)wafer
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(en noun)- The house supplied him with a wafer for his present purpose, with which, having sealed his letter, he returned hastily towards the brook side, in order to search for the things which he had there lost.