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English
Etymology
From a- + dangle.
Adjective
adangle (not comparable)
- Dangling.
The young boy sat on the bridge fishing, his legs adangle.
1855, Robert Browning, “Fra Lippo Lippi”, in Men and Women, volume 1, London: Chapman and Hall, page 37:[…] the slave that holds / John Baptist’s head a-dangle by the hair / With one hand […] and his weapon in the other, yet unwiped
1902, Virna Sheard, A Maid of Many Moods, Toronto: Copp, Clark, Chapter, page 76:Keepers of the watch with lanterns trimmed for the night’s burning adangle from oaken poles braced across their shoulders.
2001, Jamie O’Neill, chapter 11, in At Swim, Two Boys, London: Scribner, page 325:[…] 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?