Brewer's: Dansker

A Dane. Denmark used to be called Danskë. Hence Polonius says to Reynaldo, “Inquire me first what Danskers are in Paris.” (Hamlet, ii. l.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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