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onhanger

noun

Etymology

From on- + hanger. Compare West Frisian oanhinger, Dutch aanhanger, German Anhänger.

  1. inherited from hanger
  2. prefixed as onhanger — “on + hanger”

Definitions

  1. That which, or one who, hangs on to, relies on, or is dependent upon another

    That which, or one who, hangs on to, relies on, or is dependent upon another; a dependent.

    • He was one of Queen Mary's Papists, and now he is one of Queen Elizabeth's Protestants ; he was an onhanger of the Abbot of Abingdon, and now he lives as master of the manor-house.
    • The seemingly widespread belief that aphasia is almost exclusively an onhanger of the apoplectic state seems to necessitate emphasizing the fact that some.
    • The form is has no place in these sentences and seems to have been imported into them as an onhanger of it.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA