dagger
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noun
1. a short knife with a pointed and edged blade, used as a weapon:
短剣, 短刀(→ sword)
e.g. he drew his dagger and stabbed the leader.
Printing another term for obelus.
〘印〙 ダガー, 短剣符, 剣標(obelisk)〘†; 参照, 没年, 廃語などを示す〙
2. a moth with a dark dagger-shaped marking on the forewing.
Genus Acronicta, family Noctuidae: several species.
PHRASES
at daggers drawn
British in bitter enmity:
e.g. they have been at daggers drawn for weeks over tactics.
look daggers at (also glare daggers at)
glare angrily or venomously at:
e.g. she flung the fork down, looking daggers at him.
ORIGIN
late Middle English: perhaps from obsolete dag ‘pierce, stab’, influenced by Old French dague ‘long dagger’.