dangle

ripustaa

riippua puhekieltä To hang loosely with the ability to swing.
Hudibras

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

From her lifted hand / Dangled a length of ribbon.

(ux)

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.

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.