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dangler|ˈdæŋglə(r)|
[f. as prec. + -er1.]
1. One who dangles; one who hangs or hovers about a woman; a dallying follower.
1727Fielding Love in Sev. Masq. Wks. 1775 I. 37 The dangler after a woman. 1730–6Bailey (folio), Dangler, so the Women in Contempt call a Man, who is always hanging after them, but never puts the Question home. 1770F. Burney Early Diary 10 Jan., ‘You see’, she cried, ‘what a herd of danglers flutter around you.’ 1828Carlyle Misc. (1857) I. 228 Fashionable danglers after literature. 1882Besant All Sorts xix. 139 Dick Coppin was not..a dangler after girls' apron-strings.
2. A dangling appendage or part.
1731–7Miller Gard. Dict. (ed. 3) s.v. Vitis, You must go over the Vines again..rubbing off all Danglers, as before, and training in the leading Shoots. 1870R. Broughton Red as Rose iv, The long red pendant to his [a turkey-cock's] nose: I confess to being ignorant as to what function that long flabby dangler has to fulfil. |