How to Spell dangle
dangle
dangle - verb
- To hang loosely and usually so as to be able to swing freely
- To be a hanger-on or a dependent
- To occur in a sentence without having a normally expected syntactic relation to the rest of the sentence (such as climbing in "Climbing the mountain the cabin came into view")
Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary API
"a dangling participle"
dangle - thesaurus
Synonyms: hang, sling, suspend, swing
Etymology
Probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Danish dangle to dangle