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dangling

adjectivenounverbattested in dialogue

  • //ˈdæŋɡ(ə)lɪŋ//
  • //ˈdeɪ̯ŋɡ(ə)lɪŋ//
  • //ˈdɛ̃ŋɡ(ə)lɪŋ//

Suspended from above.

adjective

  1. 1

    Suspended from above.

  2. 2

    figurativeIn a state of suspense.

    Well, don't leave me dangling. Tell me what happened!

noun

  1. 1

    The act of hanging something so that it can move freely; suspension.

  2. 2

    The act of following or trailing around.

    […] Falkner's quick-sighted honour would not have tolerated your brother's danglings at the skirts of beauty.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of danglepresent participle and gerund of dangle

Forms

plural
danglings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).