Vocabulary question

[TarnishedPenny]

Is there a noun form of the verb ‘to dangle’?

 

[SimonDoom]

According to both Dictionary.com and Webster's the answer is yes. "Dangle" is the act of dangling. According to Webster's, this use is rare.

I think this would be correct:

He dangled the rope in the breeze. (transitive version)

The rope dangled in the breeze. (intransitive version)

He was responsible for the dangle of the rope in the breeze.


I think you could also use the participle form, dangling.

He was responsible for the dangling of the rope in the breeze.

 

[yowser]

Is there a noun form of the verb ‘to dangle’?

The OED lists 'dangle' as a noun, although identified as 'rare'.

Examples they give:

1756 Connoisseur No. 122 Seeming ravished with the genteel dangle of his sword-knot.
1888 O. Crawfurd Sylvia Arden ii. 21 He lay there in a swound till they got him up the ladder, with just a dangle of life in him.
1903 Westm. Gaz. 26 Mar. 8/2 We get dangles in the shops made and ready for our use, fashioned of silk cords and tassels.
1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Dangle-money, an early Chinese bronze coinage, so called from its resemblance to and former use as dangles of a musical instrument.
1909 M. B. Saunders Litany Lane i. ix A pair of long jet earrings representing funeral urns with cloths over them had replaced the usual golden dangles.
1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) A dangle of curls.
1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 207/2 Dangle-parade, a ‘short-arm’ inspection: New Zealand soldiers’.
1957 J. Kerouac On the Road i. vii. 44 On the wall was a nude drawing of Dean, enormous dangle and all.

 

[SamScribble]

According to word on the street, the angle of the dangle (noun) is proportionate to the heat of the meat. Not that a simple country boy such as I has any idea what that means.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Thank you all.

Sam, I’ll speak to you after class.

 

[SimonDoom]

Sam, I’ll speak to you after class.

I suggest having the teaching assistant present.

 

[jaF0]

Dang, I thought sure of one of y'all on a nooky site would go into shoe dangling.

 

[Handley_Page]

Thank you all.

Sam, I’ll speak to you after class.

I suggest having the teaching assistant present.

Preferably Armed & ready.

From my "concise Oxford" on my PC:-

dangle /ˈdaŋɡl/ verb hang or cause to hang so as to swing freely.
– phrases keep someone dangling keep someone in an uncertain position.
– derivatives dangler noun. dangly adjective.
– origin C16: symbolic of something hanging.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Preferably Armed & ready.

From my "concise Oxford" on my PC:-

dangle /ˈdaŋɡl/ verb hang or cause to hang so as to swing freely.
– phrases keep someone dangling keep someone in an uncertain position.
– derivatives dangler noun. dangly adjective.
– origin C16: symbolic of something hanging.

A ‘dangler’. Hmm. Thanks

 

[jaF0]

She's a dandy dangler ...

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[SimonDoom]

Dang, I thought sure of one of y'all on a nooky site would go into shoe dangling.

You can go to Pornhub for that, I'm sure.

 

[SamScribble]

Preferably Armed & ready.

From my "concise Oxford" on my PC:-

dangle /ˈdaŋɡl/ verb hang or cause to hang so as to swing freely.
– phrases keep someone dangling keep someone in an uncertain position.
– derivatives dangler noun. dangly adjective.
– origin C16: symbolic of something hanging.

One of my editors used to refer to dangling participles (Arriving at the door of the castle, the sky suddenly opened) as 'danglers'. He also delighted in finding them in the works of writers who should have known better.

 

[BillyAndBetty]

..........

 

[jehoram]

According to word on the street, the angle of the dangle (noun) is proportionate to the heat of the meat

and inverse to 'the square of the hair." Education in mathematics is sorely deficient these days.

 

[Athalia]

the angle of the dangle (noun) is proportionate to the heat of the meat. and inverse to 'the square of the hair." .

That equation will not balance until you factor in the "mass of the ass."

That's about all I remember of an engineering course I took.

 

[Rustyoznail]

According to word on the street, the angle of the dangle (noun) is proportionate to the heat of the meat. Not that a simple country boy such as I has any idea what that means.

From my maths class, the theory was

It’s not the angle of the dangle,
Nor the sag of the bag.
It’s the throb of the knob
That does the job.


I’ll leave now...

 

[Zeb_Carter]

She's a dandy dangler ...

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Just wondering. Is this somehow supposed to be sexier than her just wearing stockings and high heels?

Sorry, I don't get it. I guess I'm just not into feet.

 

[oggbashan]

In computing, you used to be able to buy a 'dongle' to add wi-fi.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

In computing, you used to be able to buy a 'dongle' to add wi-fi.

Before that you could have a dongle just to connect to the internet. Sometimes they needed an adapter so you had a 'dingle-dongle'.

Or you bodged it with a second thingy, creating what my friends assured me was a 'dingle-dangle-dongle', following the strict rules of vowel sequence alliteration. This was early 90s.

 

[NotWise]

Just wondering. Is this somehow supposed to be sexier than her just wearing stockings and high heels?

Sorry, I don't get it. I guess I'm just not into feet.

I don't have the fetish, but I'm aware that a lot of women like attention paid to their feet. To at least some women, feet can be erogenous zones. My male characters often give them a lot of attention and then work their way up.

In the right context, the dangling is flirtatious, so it is sexier than just wearing stockings and heels.

 

[AvroAnsonXIX]

A lot of women like attention paid to their feet. To at least some women, feet can be erogenous zones. My male characters often give them a lot of attention and then work their way up.

In the right context, the dangling is flirtatious, so it is sexier than just wearing stockings and heels.

Attention to feet -- or shoulders -- is a nice open. Heels OTOH are a right PITA. Perhaps if very high a sign she may go for some Ds play. She's already a masochist for wearing them. This might be corollary to the late great George Carlin's quip (made before laser removal existed) that "he loved women with tattoos because it showed that they were capable of making bad decisions with permanent consequences."

 

[NotWise]

Attention to feet -- or shoulders -- is a nice open. Heels OTOH are a right PITA. Perhaps if very high a sign she may go for some Ds play. She's already a masochist for wearing them. This might be corollary to the late great George Carlin's quip (made before laser removal existed) that "he loved women with tattoos because it showed that they were capable of making bad decisions with permanent consequences."

On the other hand, I've known some vertically challenged women who spend so much time in heels that they're uncomfortable in flats.

 

[TadOverdon]

Does "his cock stiffened involuntarily" make any sense at all?

I know that getting a hard-on is not an act of will comparable to conjuring a giant boxing glove out of green energy using a magic ring, but OTOH it's not exactly an autonomic function either.

I guess I just don't the sound of "His cock stiffened despite his best efforts," which is just so counterintuitive.

 

[NotWise]

Does "his cock stiffened involuntarily" make any sense at all?

I know that getting a hard-on is not an act of will comparable to conjuring a giant boxing glove out of green energy using a magic ring, but OTOH it's not exactly an autonomic function either.

I guess I just don't the sound of "His cock stiffened despite his best efforts," which is just so counterintuitive.

If the character is fifteen then it might make sense. The older the character, the less likely that sounds. There's also questions about how stiff "stiff" is. It's more likely if it's firm, but not fully hard. There are also contexts where it might make sense: drugged, taken by surprise, bondage maybe.

 

[gordo12]

Just wondering. Is this somehow supposed to be sexier than her just wearing stockings and high heels?

Sorry, I don't get it. I guess I'm just not into feet.

Body language. That's a flirting gesture female to male.

Does "his cock stiffened involuntarily" make any sense at all?

I know that getting a hard-on is not an act of will comparable to conjuring a giant boxing glove out of green energy using a magic ring, but OTOH it's not exactly an autonomic function either.

I guess I just don't the sound of "His cock stiffened despite his best efforts," which is just so counterintuitive.

You gotta have one to know one. Definitely autonomic. Try waking up in the middle of the night suspended 12" in the air. Ok, maybe 10...!