Other forms: mangers
A manger is the trough a farm animal feeds from. Hay in the manger, the manger was empty, laid him in a manger.
It is fixed at the height the animal eats at, which keeps feed off the ground and out of the dirt. A dog in the manger is somebody who keeps what they cannot use, from Aesop. The French manger means to eat.
1nounmangerThe trough a farm animal feeds from.
“The cows pushed their heads into the manger to eat the fresh hay.”
manger is a trough.
Old French mangeoire comes from mangier, to eat, from Latin manducare. The French manger is the same verb.
Old French
mangeoire
Middle English
manger
English, today
manger
Built from
From Middle English manger, from Old French mangeoire, menjoere, from mangier (“to eat”) (modern French manger). Cognate with Galician manxadoira, Italian mangiatoia, Occitan manjadoira, French mangeoire.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA