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1.
a short, swordlike weapon with a pointed blade and a handle, used for stabbing.
2.
Also called obelisk. Printing. a mark (†) used especially for references.
verb (used with object)
3.
to stab with or as if with a dagger.
4.
Printing. to mark with a dagger.
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Daggering
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So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
5.
look daggers at, to look at angrily, threateningly, or with hate.
Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English, probably alteration of Old French dague, of obscure origin; compare dag1
1350–1400; Middle English, probably alteration of Old French dague, of obscure origin; compare dag1
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Word Origin & History
dagger
late 14c., apparently from O.Fr. dague "dagger," from O.Prov. dague, of uncertain origin, perhaps from V.L. *daca "Dacian knife," from the Roman province in modern Romania. The ending is possibly the faintly pejorative -ard suffix. Attested earlier (1279) as a surname (Dagard, presumably "one who carried
EXPANDa dagger").
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