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| Domain | Definition |
Slang in 1811 | HANGER ON. A dependant. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Accompaniment | Concomitant, accessory, coefficient; companion, buddy, attendant, fellow, associate, friend, colleague; consort, spouse, mate; partner, co-partner; satellite, hanger on, fellow-traveller, shadow; escort, cortege; attribute. |
Servant | Serf, vassal, slave, negro, helot; bondsman, bondswoman; bondslave; ame damnee, odalisque, ryot, adscriptus gleboe; villian, villein; beadsman, bedesman; sizar; pensioner, pensionary; client; dependant, dependent; hanger on, satellite; parasite; (servility); led captain; protege, ward, hireling, mercenary, puppet, tool, creature. |
Servility | Sycophant, parasite; toad, toady, toad-eater; tufthunter; snob, flunky, flunkey, yes-man, lapdog, spaniel, lickspittle, smell-feast, Graeculus esuriens, hanger on, cavaliere servente, led captain, carpet knight; timeserver, fortune hunter, Vicar of Bray, Sir-Pertinax, Max Sycophant, pickthank; flatterer; doer of dirty work; ame damnee, tool; reptile; slave; (servant); courtier; beat, dead beat, doughface , heeler, homme de cour, sponger, sucker, tagtail, truckler. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: HANGER ON |
| Specialty definitions using "HANGER ON": table worker. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "HANGER ON"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Greek | γλύφτης. (various references) | ||||
Indonesian | pengekor (follower). (various references) | ||||
Manx | clowanagh (dunner). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | angerhay onay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-h-n-n-o-r" | |
-2 letters: gherao, gorhen, hanger, nonage, onager, orange, rehang. | |
-3 letters: agone, anger, argon, genoa, genro, gerah, goner, groan, henna, heron, hogan, honan, honer, orang, organ, range, regna. | |
-4 letters: aeon, aero, ager, agon, anon, earn, ergo, gaen, gane, gear, gnar, goer, gone, gore, gran, haen, hang, hare, hear, hern, hero, hoar, hoer, hone, hong, hora, horn. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-h-n-n-o-r" | |
+2 letters: hoarsening. | |
+3 letters: chaperoning, encroaching, overhanding, overhanging. | |
+4 letters: longshoreman, nonbreathing, overhandling, refashioning. | |
+5 letters: anthropogenic, counterchange, fashionmonger, housetraining, hydrogenating, hydrogenation, nasopharynges. | |
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