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danglings

danglings is the plural of dangling.

Meaning of dangling

Noun

dangling (countable and uncountable, plural danglings)

  1. The act of hanging something so that it can move freely; suspension.
  2. The act of following or trailing around.
    • […] Falkner's quick-sighted honour would not have tolerated your brother's danglings at the skirts of beauty.1866, Mark Lemon, Falkner Lyle, Or, The Story of Two Wives

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Questions about danglings

What is danglings the plural of?
Danglings is the plural of dangling.

Words near danglings in the dictionary

  1. dangling participles
  2. dangling pointer
  3. dangling pointers
  4. dangling the Dunlops
  5. danglingly
  6. danglings
  7. Danglish
  8. dangly
  9. dangly bits
  10. Dangme
  11. dangnabbit

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Adapted from Wiktionary: danglings (page history and authors); dangling (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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