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Definition: DANGLER |
DANGLERNoun1. One who dangles about or after others, especially after women; a trifler. |
Date "DANGLER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Slang in 1811 | DANGLER. One who follows women in general, without any particular attachment. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sequence | Follower, attendant, satellite, shadow, dangler, train. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: DANGLER |
| English words defined with "DANGLER": Cicisbeo. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "DANGLER" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DANGLER" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "DANGLER" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Dangler | Last name | 300 | 26,676 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dangler funeral home | 4 |
dangler | 3 |
dangler design | 3 |
dangler mission | 3 |
damocles dangler | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DANGLER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | dembel (dawdler, do nothing, do-naught, drone, faineant, floppy, idle, Idler, lazy, lazybones, lazy-boots, lotus eater, slacker, sluggard, work-shy), përtac (dawdler, do nothing, do-naught, faineant, good for nothing, idle, Idler, indolent, lazy, moocher, ne'er do well, otiose, poke, slacker, slothful, sluggard, snail, sundowner, swabber, truant, twiddler). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | женкар (chaser, lothario, rake, rakehell, wolf), безделник (black sheep, bum, cornerman, dead beat, deadbeat, do nothing, fiddler, fribble, gadabout, good for nothing, hobo, lay about, loafer, loiterer, loon, lounger, spalpeen, spiv, tramp, twiddler, vagabond, wastrel). (various references) | |
Greek | κρεμάμενοσ (dingle-dangle, hanging, pendent, pensile). (various references) | |
Indonesian | bandot (billy-goat, dangler after woman, womaniser). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anglerday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | mulherengo (cad, done, good for nothing, laggard, womanizer), galanteador (coquet, do-naught, good for nothing, Kittle, ladylike, laggard, mask, philanderer, wooer). (various references) | |
Romanian | pierde-varã (do nothing, fribble, gadabout, Idler, loafer, loiterer, lounger, ne'er do well, slacker, waster). (various references) | |
Russian | волокита (don juan, lothario, official red tape, philanderer, red tape), бездельник (bum, chair warmer, do nothing, do-naught, do-nothing, doodle, footer, fribble, good for nothing, idler, layabout, loafer, loon, lounger, ne'er do well, ne'erdoweel, rapscallion, scalawag, scallawag, scallywag, scapegrace, skulker, sluggard, trifler, twiddler, vagabond). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | danguba (dawdler, gadabout), neradnik (botcher). (various references) | |
Spanish | colgador (hanger). (various references) | |
Swedish | dagdrivare (carpet knight, dawdler, deadbeat, idler, layabout, loafer, loiterer, lounger), fruntimmerskarl (lady killer, lady's man). (various references) | |
Ukranian | гультяй (good for nothing, ne'er do well, rambler, skulk, wassailer, wretch), нероба (bauchle, dawdler, dead beat, do nothing, do-naught, fribble, good for nothing, layabout, loafer, loiterer, loon, ne'er do well, rambler, scamp, shack, skulk, spalpeen, waster), предмет, що вільно звиса". (various references) | |
Vietnamese | anh ch ng hay đi theo tán gái. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DANGLER": danglers. (additional references) | |
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"DANGLER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Degler, wangler. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DANGLER" (pronounced da"ngguler) |
| 6 | -a" ng g u l er | wrangler. |
| 5 | -ng g u l er | tingler. |
| 4 | -g u l er | juggler. |
| 3 | -u l er | abler, alveolar, angular, annular, avuncular, bachelor, binocular, Buckler, Candler, cardiovascular, cellular, chancellor, circular, consular, councilor, counsellor, counselor, curricular, dissimilar, embezzler, enabler, equiangular, extracurricular, fiddler, gastrovascular, Girdler, glandular, globular, gobbler, granular, hackler, humbler, hurdler, hustler, Idler, insular, intercellular, intermolecular, irregular, jeweler, jocular, jugular, kindler, kittler, Littler, modular, molecular, muscular, needler, nestler, nodular, particular, peninsular, perpendicular, popular, rattler, rectangular, regular, reveler, saddler, secular, semicircular, settler, shuffler, Sidler, similar, simpler, singular, spectacular, Spindler, Stabler, stapler, stickler, subtler, swindler, testicular, Tinkler, titular, traveler, traveller, triangular, tubular, unicellular, unpopular, unspectacular, vascular, vehicular, vernacular, wrestler. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: gnarled. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-l-n-r" | |
-1 letter: angled, angler, argled, danger, dangle, darnel, gander, garden, glared, lagend, lander, ranged, regnal. | |
-2 letters: alder, angel, anger, angle, argle, denar, eland, glade, gland, glare, glean, gnarl, grade, grand, laden, lader, lager, large, learn, naled, raged, range, redan, regal, regna, renal. | |
-3 letters: aged, ager, dale, dang, dare, darn, deal, dean, dear, drag, dreg, earl, earn, egad, egal, elan, gaed, gaen, gale, gane, gear, geld, glad, gled, glen, gnar, grad, gran, lade, land, lane, lang, lard, lead, lean, lear, lend, nard, near, nerd, rage, rale, rand, rang, read, real, rend. | |
-4 letters: age, ale, and, ane, are, dag, dal, del, den, ear, eld, end, eng, era, erg, ern, gad, gae, gal, gan, gar, ged, gel, gen, lad, lag, lar, lea, led, leg, nae, nag, rad, rag, ran, red, reg. | |
-5 letters: ad, ae, ag, al, an, ar, de, ed, el, en, er, la, na, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-l-n-r" | |
+1 letter: danglers, dragline, enlarged, glanders, wrangled. | |
+2 letters: clangored, declaring, derailing, draglines, engarland, engrailed, gardenful, garlanded, girandole, glandered, heralding, laddering, legendary, rangeland, realigned, redialing, reloading, strangled, treadling. | |
+3 letters: clangoured, cradlesong, embrangled, engarlands, gardenfuls, girandoles, goaltender, grainfield, granduncle, granulated, highlander, ladyfinger, laundering, lipreading, longhaired, malingered, overlading, quadrangle, rangelands, redialling, rehandling, repleading, resaddling, ringleader, sanderling, slandering, underglaze, unenlarged. | |
+4 letters: bedraggling, calendaring, calendering, cradlesongs, dangerously, darlingness, degradingly, dragonflies, endearingly, engarlanded, frankpledge, freeloading, generalised, generalized, goaltenders, gradualness, grainfields, grandiosely, granduncles, greenmailed, highlanders, ingrainedly, ladyfingers, laggardness, lavendering, legendarily, legerdemain, lipreadings, overloading, plantigrade, quadrangles, rewardingly, ringleaders, sanderlings, sloganeered, underglazes, underlaying, unguardedly, unregulated. | |
+5 letters: adulterating, battleground, cheerleading, childbearing, decelerating, decreasingly, deflagrating, deflagration, degenerately, degringolade, deliberating, demoralizing, depolarizing, deregulating, deregulation, descrambling, despairingly, digressional, doppelganger, edulcorating, engarlanding, federalizing, frankpledges, glycerinated, grandiflorae, interlarding, laryngitides, legerdemains, lifeguarding, marginalized, nonregulated, outgeneraled, overhandling, overpedaling, philandering, plantigrades, rechallenged, redisplaying, regionalized, revalidating, singularized, sluggardness, stranglehold, strangulated, stringhalted, triangulated, unbridgeable, underlapping, underplaying, undervaluing, unglamorized. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 41 4E 47 4C 45 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .- -. --. .-.. . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01000001 01001110 01000111 01001100 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D A N G L E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0041 004E 0047 004C 0045 0052 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38354841463952 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Names: Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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