DANGLE

I. verb (~d; dangling) Etymology: probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Danish ~ to ~ Date: 1565 intransitive verb to hang loosely and usually so as to be able to swing freely, to be a hanger-on or a dependent, to occur in a sentence without having a normally expected syntactic relation to the rest of the sentence (as climbing in “Climbing the mountain the cabin came into view”) , transitive verb to cause to ~ ; swing , 2. to keep hanging uncertainly, to hold out as an inducement, ~r noun II. noun Date: 1756 the action of dangling, something that ~s