- a long open box that horses and cows can eat fromWord OriginMiddle English: from Old French mangeure, based on Latin manducat- ‘chewed’, from the verb manducare, from manduco ‘guzzler’, from mandere ‘to chew’.
Idioms
See manger in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarya dog in the manger
- a person who stops other people from enjoying something that the person cannot use or does not want themselves
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