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Dangling   /dˈæŋgəlɪŋ/  /dˈæŋglɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Dangle  v. t.  To cause to dangle; to swing, as something suspended loosely; as, to dangle the feet. "And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume."



Dangle  v. i.  (past & past part. dangled; pres. part. dangling)  To hang loosely, or with a swinging or jerking motion. "He'd rather on a gibbet dangle Than miss his dear delight, to wrangle." "From her lifted hand Dangled a length of ribbon."
To dangle about or To dangle after, to hang upon importunately; to court the favor of; to beset. "The Presbyterians, and other fanatics that dangle after them, are well inclined to pull down the present establishment."






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"Dangling" Quotes from Famous Books



... You is playing circus!" cried Sue again. She had finished her first peach, and now, dropping the stone, from which she had been sucking the last, sweet bits of pulp, she stood looking at her brother, dangling from ...
— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus • Laura Lee Hope

... horrible than ever," I said to myself, as I shook off my dislike, and sat down on the little platform with my legs dangling over the water. ...
— Patience Wins - War in the Works • George Manville Fenn

... barbarous diversion; and on being asked why, gave this reason: "Suppose some superior being should bait a hook with venison, and go a-Quinning, I should certainly bite; and what a sight should I be dangling in the air!" ...
— The Jest Book - The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings • Mark Lemon

... of houses had had their fronts torn off. The rooms within were like stage-settings for some tragic play. Sheets and blankets trailed from beds where sleepers had waked in fright. Doors of wardrobes gaped to show dresses dangling forlornly, like Bluebeard's murdered brides. Dinner-tables were set out for meals never to be finished, save by rats. Family portraits of comfortable old faces smiling under broken glass hung awry on pink or blue papered walls. Half-made shirts and petticoats were still caught ...
— Everyman's Land • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... hundred to one that she will not accept you, still she must treat you as an honourable suitor. And whether she accepts you or rejects you, it is better to tell her and to have it over, than to go on forever dangling this way, like the poor cat in the adage. Tell her—put your fate to the touch—hope nothing, fear ...
— The Cardinal's Snuff-Box • Henry Harland


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