adangle

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adjective

Dangling.

“The young boy sat on the bridge fishing, his legs adangle.”

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Meanings

adjectiveadangle (not comparable)
  1. not comparableDangling.

    The young boy sat on the bridge fishing, his legs adangle.

    3 more examples

    […] the slave that holds / John Baptist’s head a-dangle by the hair / With one hand […] and his weapon in the other, yet unwiped

    1855, Robert Browning, “Fra Lippo Lippi”, in Men and Women, volume 1, London: Chapman and Hall, page 37

    Keepers of the watch with lanterns trimmed for the night’s burning adangle from oaken poles braced across their shoulders.

    1902, Virna Sheard, A Maid of Many Moods, Toronto: Copp, Clark, Chapter, page 76

    […] he presented an easy target for scoffing. His sword of rank adangle oddly, his puttees immaculately wound the wrong way round, was that a whistle he had hanging?

    2001, Jamie O’Neill, chapter 11, in At Swim, Two Boys, London: Scribner, page 325

Origin

From a- + dangle.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

adangle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adangle

MLA

“adangle.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adangle. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “adangle,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adangle.

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