adangle

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

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adj

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

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.

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What does adangle mean?

Dangling.

Where does adangle come from?

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.

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