adangle

Dangling.

Adjective

  1. Dangling.
    • The young boy sat on the bridge fishing, his legs adangle.
    • […] 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...
    • 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:

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der. English a- English dangle English adangle From a- + dangle.