aeger

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adjective

Absent and excused from one’s classes due to illness

OriginLatin aeger →
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Meanings

aeger1

adjectiveaeger (not comparable)
  1. datednot comparableUK school slangAbsent and excused from one’s classes due to illness
  2. datednot comparableUK school slangRelating to such an excused absence
nounaeger (plural aegers)

plural aegers

  1. datedUK school slangAn excused absence from classes due to illness
  2. datedUK school slangA note excusing a student from classes due to illness

    Dick laughed. 'I'll get the receipt from him. I often want a good thing for an "æger."'

    1870 June 18, “The Nemesis”, in Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts, number 338, chapter 7, page 395

aeger2

nounaeger (plural aegers)

plural aegers

  1. datedlocal dialectA particularly high tidal wave on some rivers, esp. the Trent

Origin

aeger · adjective, noun

  1. Latinaeger“sick”
  2. Englishaeger

From Latin aeger (“sick”).

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aeger · noun

Obscure, but probably Germanic. Compare eagre.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

aeger. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aeger

MLA

“aeger.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aeger. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “aeger,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aeger.

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