Dangle

Definition: Dangle

Dangle

Verb

1. Hang freely; "the ornaments dangled from the tree"; "The light dropped from the ceiling".

2. Cause to dangle or hang freely; "He dangled the ornaments from the Christmas tree".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dangle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Dangle

Evolution

Verb: oscillate; vibrate, librate; alternate, undulate, wave; rock, swing; pulsate, beat; wag, waggle; nod, bob, courtesy, curtsy; tick; play; wamble, wabble; dangle, swag.

Ostentation

Show off, show off one's paces; parade, march past; display, exhibit, put forward, hold up; trot out, hand out; sport, brandish, blazon forth; dangle, dangle before the eyes.

Pendency

Verb: be pendent; Adjective: hang, depend, swing, dangle; swag; daggle, flap, trail, flow; beetle.

Crosswords: Dangle

That's not where I dangle it. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Well, I don't dangle a corkscrew from my ear. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

So take your flunky and dangle. (Miller's Crossing; writing credit: Joel Coen ; Ethan Coen)

Gonna give you 24 hours to dangle, eh (Hey Arnold!; writing credit: Luís Filipe Rocha)

You can't dangle the bogus carrot of possible reconciliation in front of my face whilst riding some other donkey (Spaced; writing credit: Simon Pegg; Jessica Stevenson)

Dangle Dingle (1966)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Don't Let Your Participles Dangle in Public! (reference)

• Let's All Hang and Dangle (Animals on the Move) (reference)

• Let's Hang and Dangle (Animal Antics) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Take Your Flunky and Dangle (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "dangle": dangle about ♦ dangle about smb. ♦ dangle after ♦ dangle after smb. ♦ dangle around ♦ dangle before the eyes ♦ dangle round smb. ♦ dangle smth. before smb. ♦ dangle smth. in front of smb. ♦ finish dangle ♦ start dangle ♦ To dangle about ♦ to dangle after. Additional references.

Ending with "dangle": blood-dangle, Dingle-dangle.

Albanian

var (drape, hang, hang up, hook, rope, string up, suspend), tund (appal, appall, beat up, convulse, dandle, jar, jiggle, jog, joggle, jolt, shake, shake up, switch, wag, waggle, wield), tërheq (allure, appeal, arrest, attract, bewitch, call attention to, capture, catch, charm, daggle, decoy, drag, draggle, draw, draw out, engage, entice, fetch, fix, haul, heave, invite, jerk, lure, pluck, prepossess, pull, pull out, recall, retract, revoke, stretch, take back, tow, tug, web, withdraw), përkund (cradle, dance, dandle, rock, shake), lëkundem (falter, halt, hang, hesitate, jolt, jumble, nod, nutate, oscillate, pendulate, reel, rock, shake, shift, stagger, sway, swing, totter, vacillate, vibrate, wabble, wallow, wamble, waver, wobble), kolovitem (seesaw), josh (attract, bewitch, charm, dazzle, decoy, deprave, draw, entice, inveigle, lure, lure away, seduce, tempt, vamp, wile). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تدلى (bag, droop, fall, flag, flow, loll, lop, sag, suspend, swing), ‏تدل (droop), ‏تبع (direct, follow, go after, succeed, supervene, tread, tread on smb.'s heels), ‏علق (annotate, comment, commentate, gloss, hang, hang up, hinge, pin out, rest, shelve, sling, stop, string up, suspend, swing), ‏إسترخى (laze, loll, lounge, refresh, relax, sprawl, unbend, unbuckle, unwind), ‏شىء متدل, ‏دلى (adduce, hang, loll). (various references)

Bulgarian 

клатя се (oscillate, quake, seesaw, teeter, totter, wobble), вея се (flutter, streak, stream), вися (cool one's heels, hang, hang down, hang over, impend, loll, sag, swag, swing), закачам (append, bangle, catch, clasp, graze, hang, hang out, hang up, hitch, hook, jive, jolly, pin on, pin up, put up, rib, ride, roast, rough-house, tease, tooth, twit), провесвам (hang, loll, sling, suspend, swing). (various references)

Chinese 

� (hang loosely), 垂 (almost, bend down, bequeath, droop, factory, hand down, nearly, to approach, to hang), 吊著 , 橤 (hang loosely), 摇晃 (Dangled, Dangling, Ramshackle, shaky, swage, Swaging, wobbling). (various references)

Czech

plandat, klátit (joggle), houpat se (rock, swing, wabble, wobble). (various references)

Danish

dropfod (dangle foot), startomstændighed (start dangle), slutomstændighed (finish dangle), haengefod (dangle foot). (various references)

Dutch

zwaaien (brandish, fling, sway, swing, wave, wave about), bungelen (swing), bengelen (swing). (various references)

Farsi 

اویزان کردن (Hang), اویزان بودن (Overhang), اویزان (Suspension), اویختن (Append, Hang, Hangout, Loll, Slouch). (various references)

Finnish

roikkua (hang), kieppua (swing). (various references)

French

dandinement, suivre, se relâcher, se pendre, se balancer, pendiller, laisser pendre, laisser dans le vague, laisser balancer, ballons, ballez, baller, ballent. (various references)

German

baumeln. (various references)

Greek 

κουνώ (cradle, rock, shake, shaken, shook, sway, swing). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"יות תלוי ומת� �"� �". (various references)

Hungarian

lóg (hang out, to dawdle, to hack around, to hang slack, to loaf, to lop over, to play hookey, to play hooky, to play the wag, to play truant, to play wag, to skulk, to slacken, to swing for a crime, to swing the lead), fityeg (to dangle, to lop over, to swag). (various references)

Indonesian

menggelimbir (be penduluous), menganting, geyong-geyong, gelanting (hang down). (various references)

Italian

ciondolare (hang around, loll, Mike, slouch). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

垂れる (to, to dangle, to drip, to droop, to drop, to hang, to lower, to ooze, to pull down, to sag). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たれさがる (to dangle, to hang), たれる (to confer, to dangle, to drip, to droop, to drop, to give, to hang, to leave behind, to lower, to ooze, to pull down, to sag, to trickle), たらす (to cajole, to dangle, to deceive, to dribble, to hang down, to seduce, to slouch, to spill, to suspend), ぶらさがる (to dangle, to hang from, to swing), ぶらさ�'る (to dangle, to hang, to suspend, to swing), ぶらぶら (aimlessly, be idle, dangle heavily, idly, lazily, loaf, loiter, stroll idly, sway to and fro, swing), ぶらつく (to dangle, to hang around, to linger, to stroll about, to swing), つきまとう (to dangle after), つりさがる (to dangle, to hang down). (various references)

Korean 

매십시�". (various references)

Manx

leaystey (balancing, bank, boggle, brandish, fluctuate, fluctuating, heel, hesitate, hesitating, hesitation, loll, lolling, oscillate, oscillation, reel, reeling, rock, rocking, roll, see-saw, sway, swaying, swerve, swing, swing back, swinging, vacillate, vacillating, vacillation, waddle; wavering, waddling; fluctuation, wave, wave of hand, waver, waver of fixture). (various references)

Maya

chaw (to dangle). (various references)

Norwegian

dingle. (various references)

Pig Latin

angleday.(various references)

Portuguese

suspender (adjourn, cancel, discontinue, hang, inhibit, intermit, interrupt, lever, lift, paralyse, paralyze, put up, raise, remit, sling, suspend, swing), balançar-se (lurch, teeter, vacillate, wabble, waver, wobble). (various references)

Romanian

se legãna (flap, nod, reel, rock, sway, swing), se bãlãbãni (flap, flop, paddle, stagger, swing), legãna (balance, cradle, rock, stagger, sway, swing, undulate, wave), cumpãni (balance, consider, equipoise, hesitate, measure, ponder, rock, waver, weigh), bãlãbãni, ademeni (allure, bait, corrupt, decoy, delude, ensnare, entice, fascinate, inveigle, lead up the garden, lure, seduce, tempt). (various references)

Russian 

качаться (nutate, pendulate, rocked, seesawed, sway, swing, vacillate, vibrate, wave). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

visiti (be suspended, hang, hang out, hang over), klatiti (jiggle, oscillate, rock, shake, waggle). (various references)

Spanish

dejar colgado, pender (hang, hang down), estar colgado, colgar (append, droop, halter, hang, hang down, hang out, hang up, loll, loll out, put up, ring off, sag, sling, string up, top), bambolearse (falter, roll, totter), bambolear (falter). (various references)

Swedish

slänga (chuck, dash, fling, flip, gulp, send, shy, slam, swingle, throw, toss), dingla (swing). (various references)

Turkish

sarkmak (bag, beetle, drape, droop, flag, hang, hang down, hang out, impend, lean out, lie over, lop, overhang, prolapse, sag, slouch), sarkıtmak (droop, hang, hang down, lop, slouch, swing), asılı tutmak. (various references)

Turkmen 

salparmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

розхитувати (stagger), тинятися (expatiate, fool about, gad, go about, hack around, knock about, knock around, maroon, muck about, putter, roam, scamp, sling about, slouch about, slouch along, slouch around, traipse, wait about, wait around), гойдатися (oscillate, seesaw, tilt, wag, waggle, weave), вільно звисати, висіти (bangle, hang), манити. (various references)

Welsh

hongian (hang). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "dangle": dangled, dangler, danglers, dangles. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Dangle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: daglo, Dagnall, Dagoe, dange, D'angely, dangue, Danjal, Danoli, dargle, dawgle, diangle, Dingell, dingla, dingli, Dinlle, Dongbei, dongle, Dongola, Donjela, Dungloe, Hangle, Nangle. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: angled, lagend.

-1 letter: angel, angle, eland, glade, gland, glean, laden, naled.

-2 letters: aged, dale, dang, deal, dean, egad, egal, elan, gaed, gaen, gale, gane, geld, glad, gled, glen, lade, land, lane, lang, lead, lean, lend.

-3 letters: age, ale, and, ane, dag, dal, del, den, eld, end, eng, gad, gae, gal, gan, ged, gel, gen, lad, lag.

+1 letter: aligned, angeled, clanged, dangled, dangler, dangles, dealing, flanged, gladden, glanced, glandes, gleaned, gnarled, jangled, lagends, leading, mangled, slanged, tangled, wangled.

+2 letters: anglepod, blindage, danegeld, danglers, dealings, delating, delaying, dragline, enlarged, fenagled, finagled, gladdens, gladness, glanders, glandule, gliadine, headlong, ladening, leadings, longhead, magdalen, maligned, medaling, pedaling, pleading, seladang, signaled, spangled, twangled, ungalled, unglazed, wrangled.