dagger

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/ˈdæɡə/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A short knife with a pointed blade.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A point scored near the end of the game (clutch time) to take or increase the scorer's team lead, so that they are likely to win.

Examples

  • Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?

  • The casing of the traditional dagger is made of leather.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
2
Synonyms
4

Also pronounced

  • [ˈdæɡɚ] ~ [ˈdæɡɹ̩]
  • [ˈdeɪ̯ɡɚ] ~ [ˈdeɪ̯ɡɹ̩]

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The typographical mark †.

  2. A stabbing weapon, similar to a sword but with a short, double-edged blade.

verb

Extra meaning

  1. To pierce with a dagger; to stab.

More examples

In context

  • The dagger penetrated his heart.

  • His last-minute 3-point dagger silenced the criticism for his so-called failure to come up big in big moments.

  • DAGGER. A piece of timber that faces on to the poppets of the bilgeways, and crosses them diagonally , to keep them together

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English daggere, daggare, dagard, probably adapted from Old French dague (1229), related to Occitan, Italian, Spanish daga, Dutch dagge, German Degen, Middle Low German dagge (“knife's point”), Old Norse daggarðr, Danish daggert, Faroese daggari, Welsh dager, dagr, Breton dac, Albanian thikë (“a knife, dagger”), thek (“to stab, to pierce with a sharp object”). In English attested from the 1380s. The ultimate origin of the word is unclear. Grimm suspects Celtic origin. Others have suggested derivation from an unattested Vulgar Latin *daca "Dacian [knife]", from the Latin adjective dācus. Chastelain (Dictionaire etymologique, 1750) thought that French dague was a derivation from G...