different between dangle vs swingle

English

Etymology

Uncertain, but likely of North Germanic origin, akin to Danish dingle, dangle, Swedish dangla (“to swing about”), Norwegian dangla, perhaps via North Frisian dangeln.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dæ?.??l/
• Rhymes: -æ???l

Verb

dangle (third-person singular simple present dangles, present participle dangling, simple past and past participle dangled)

1. (intransitive) To hang loosely with the ability to swing.

   • He'd rather on a gibbet dangle / Than miss his dear delight, to wrangle.

   • From her lifted hand / Dangled a length of ribbon.

2. (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.

3. (transitive) To hang or trail something loosely.

4. (intransitive, dated) To trail or follow around.
   • 1833, Miller's Modern Acting Drama

     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.

5. (medicine, intransitive) Of a patient: to be positioned with the legs hanging over the edge of the bed.
   • 1976, R. Winifred Heyward Johnson, Douglass W. Johnson, Introduction to Nursing Care (page 139)

     Record the time and duration of dangling, patient's pulse and respirations and patient's general tolerance of the procedure. […] The next step usually in getting the patient out of bed is sitting […]

   • 2012, Judith M. Wilkinson, Leslie S. Treas, Pocket Nursing Skills: What You Need to Know Now

     [P]ivot to bring the patient's legs over the side of the bed. Be Smart! Stay with the patient as he dangles.

6. (medicine, transitive) To position (a patient) in this way.
   • 2012, Judith M. Wilkinson, Leslie S. Treas, Pocket Nursing Skills: What You Need to Know Now

     Using proper body mechanics for dangling a patient at the side of the bed.

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Translations

Noun

dangle (plural dangles)

1. An agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group.
2. (slang, ice hockey, lacrosse) The action of dangling; a series of complex stick tricks and fakes in order to defeat the defender in style.

   That was a sick dangle for a great goal!

3. A dangling ornament or decoration.

Anagrams

• Glenda, angled, geland, gladen

References

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sw??.?l/
• Rhymes: -???l

Etymology 1

From Middle English swingelen, from the noun (see below). Related to Middle Dutch swingelen, swengelen.

Verb

swingle (third-person singular simple present swingles, present participle swingling, simple past and past participle swingled)

1. (transitive) To beat or flog, especially for extracting the fibres from flax stalks; to scutch.
   • 1858, John Harland (editor), The House and Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe Hall, in the County of Lancaster

     The first operation in dressing flax is to swingle or beat it, in order to detach it from the harle or skimps.

2. (transitive) To beat off the tops of (weeds) without pulling up the roots.

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Etymology 2

From Middle English swingel, from Old English swingel, swingelle (“whip, scourge”), equivalent to swing +? -le. Related to Middle Dutch swingel, swengel, Dutch zwingel, zwengel. Doublet of swingel.

Noun

swingle (plural swingles)

1. An implement used to separate the fibres of flax by beating them; a scutch.

Etymology 3

From swing +? -le (frequentative suffix).

Verb

swingle (third-person singular simple present swingles, present participle swingling, simple past and past participle swingled)

1. To dangle; to wave hanging.
2. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) To swing for pleasure.

Anagrams

• slewing, swingel