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▪ I. dangling, vbl. n.|ˈdæŋglɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
The action of the verb dangle, q.v.; † concr. (pl.) dangling appendages.
1611Cotgr., Pendiloches, jags, danglings, or things that hang danglingly. 1650Fuller Pisgah iv. vi. 100 To prevent the dangling down and dagling of so long garments. 1678Butler Hud. iii. ii. 202 The Royalists..To leave off Loyalty and Dangling. 1855Smedley H. Coverdale i. 5 I've given up flirting and dangling.
▪ II. ˈdangling, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That dangles.
1593Shakes. Rich. II, iii. iv. 29 Goe binde thou vp yond dangling Apricocks. 1635Quarles Emblems i. Invoc., Cast off these dangling plummets. 1750Mrs. Delany Life & Corr. (1861) II. 602, I am very happy that I have no dangling neighbours. 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh iii. 767 Thin dangling locks.
Hence ˈdanglingly adv.
1611Cotgr., Pendiller, to hang danglingly, loosely, or but by halves.
Add:b. Gram. Not being part of a proper grammatical construction. Freq. as dangling participle, a participle in an absolute clause or phrase whose subject is omitted, resulting in ambiguity; an unattached participle. Also dangling modifier, dangling phrase, etc.
1909Webster, Dangling participle. 1935A. G. Kennedy Current English xii. 487 The so-called dangling participle has become one of the chief bugbears of the teacher of English composition. 1957M. Nicholson Dict. Amer.-Eng. Usage 115/1 Dangling participle. Wrong: Having just returned from a long cruise, the city seemed unbearably crowded to us both. 1961Amer. Speech XXXVI. 196 Let us examine, then, these dangling modifiers in ‘Bartleby’, looking at each of them in turn to see what..aid it can give us in understanding the obscurities of the tale. 1972R. D. Walshe in G. W. Turner Good Austral. Eng. 256 Dangling phrases. In the sentence, ‘Going into the bush, a snake bit me’, the opening phrase ‘dangles’ because it is not followed by its proper subject. 1985W. Safire in N.Y. Times Mag. 12 May 14/2 Miss Shields, though perhaps guilty of a misplaced modifier, is surely innocent of a dangling modifier. |