dangle : Idioms & Phrases

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dangle-berry

  • noun huckleberry of the eastern United States with pink flowers and sweet blue fruit
    dangleberry; Gaylussacia frondosa.
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dangling modifier

  • noun a word or phrase apparently modifying an unintended word because of its placement in a sentence: e.g., `when young' in `when young, circuses appeal to all of us'
    misplaced modifier.
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dangling participle

  • noun a participle (usually at the beginning of a sentence) apparently modifying a word other than the word intended: e.g., `flying across the country' in `flying across the country the Rockies came into view'
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dingle-dangle

Din"gle-dan`gle adverb
Definitions
  1. In a dangling manner.
Webster 1913

To dangle about ∨ after

  • to hang upon importunately; to court the favor of; to beset.
Webster 1913