Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun cant Sword.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From German Degen.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word degen.

Examples

  • Web Zen: Mixed Media Zen mark mothersbaugh gum blondes eddie breen martha bruin degen c.m. botz/f. glessner lee biggles odd objects david c. roy roger stevens neo kaiju jason salavon kiki smith

    Boing Boing 2004

  • a mighty sight of difference between gents like them pards of mine an 'degen'rates of the tribe of Silver Phil.

    Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

  • "Doc Peets allers allows this Silver Phil is a 'degen'rate;' leastwise that's the word Peets uses.

    Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

  • Yes | No | Report from mike degen wrote 1 year 8 weeks ago

    Monster November Velvet Buck 2008

  • Yes | No | Report from mike degen wrote 1 year 8 weeks ago thats awsome something wisconsin should look into. there is nothing better than takeing a kid hunting and showing them the ropes.

    More Young Guns 2008

  • In mai howse, dey stahrt bai kissin, but den it degen… deegener…bweaks daon inta a brawl anna ful-awn fite.

    Next on - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • From that moment on, the battle for City-of-the-Pyramid degen - erated into barbaric ruthlessness, for each morning the Spaniards assembled in mute rage to watch the priests atop the pyramid cut out the heart of another comrade, and during the course of the day the invaders killed - not always quickly - any Indians they caught.

    Mexico Michener, James 1992

  • He says "The CANDY BAR you degen-a-rut" and he grabs me.

    Talkin' Candy Bar Blues Noel Paul Stookey 1965

  • Ganther ande Geruot, die recken lobelieh, und Giselher der iunge, ein uz erwelter degen, diu frouwe was ir swester, die fu'rsten hetens in ir pflegen.

    The Nibelungenlied Daniel Bussier Shumway

  • Where men rule, it is the way of men to reward women for their caresses, and the practice of course tends to degen -

    The Dominant Sex: A Study in the Sociology of Sex Differentiation, by Mathilde and Mathias Vaerting; translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul 1923

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.