Dangle vs Wang - What's the difference?
dangle | wang |
to hang loosely with the ability to swing
* Hudibras
* Tennyson
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
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, title= (intransitive, slang, ice hockey, lacrosse) The action of performing a move or deke with the puck in order to get past a defender or goalie; perhaps because of the resemblance to dangling the puck on a string.
To hang or trail something loosely.
To trail or follow around.
* 1833 , Miller's Modern Acting Drama
An agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group.
(slang, ice hockey, lacrosse) The action of dangling; a series of complex stick tricks and fakes in order to defeat the defender in style.
A dangling ornament or decoration.
* 1941 , Flora Thompson, Over to Candleford
(onomatopoeia) The sound made when a hollow metal object is struck a glancing blow.
A slap; a blow.
To batter; to clobber; to conk.
To throw hard.
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As a verb dangle
is to hang loosely with the ability to swing.As a noun dangle
is an agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group.dangle
English
Verb
(dangl)- He'd rather on a gibbet dangle / Than miss his dear delight, to wrangle.
- From her lifted hand / Dangled a length of ribbon.
Fantasy of navigation, passage=Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}
- To dangle at the elbow of a wench who can't make up her mind to accept the common title of wife, till she has been courted a certain number of weeks — so the old blinker, her father, says.
Noun
(wikipedia dangle) (en noun)- That was a sick dangle for a great goal!
- So her father wrote to Mrs. Herring, and one day she arrived and turned out to be a little, lean old lady with a dark brown mole on one leathery cheek and wearing a black bonnet decorated with jet dangles , like tiny fishing rods.
Anagrams
* *wang
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
(onomatopoeia)Noun
(en noun)- (Halliwell)
Verb
(en verb)citation, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=Cc6bHeUtMxwC&pg=PA283&dq=%22wanged%22, %22wanging%22+-%22wanging%27ombe%22 , isbn=9780070456389 , page=283 , passage=Ask, too, the guy in the bass boat wanging out a spinner-bait at Bull Shoals in Arkansas.}}
citation, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=qzPuDN6CpEYC&pg=PA52&dq="wanged", "wanging" , isbn=9780192754059 , page=36 , passage=He wanged them across the room, and Billy caught them flying over his head, then held them up for inspection as though he was contemplating buying.}}
citation, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=BXIQvXs8NF4C&pg=PA132&dq="wanged", "wanging"+-"wanging'ombe" , isbn=9781594868238 , page=132 , passage=After Sam filled in my big block letters with the glitter, he unleashed his inner Jackson Pollock, wanging artful paint splatters everywhere.}}