Noun: onhanger
| Singular | onhanger |
| Plural | onhangers |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1821, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley:]
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The seemingly widespread belief that aphasia is almost exclusively an onhanger of the apoplectic state seems to necessitate emphasizing the fact that some. [1900, Joseph Collins, The Treatment of diseases of the nervous system:]
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The form is has no place in these sentences and seems to have been imported into them as an onhanger of it. [1974, Anne D. Pick, Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology:]
Nouns inflected like onhanger
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From on- + hanger. Compare West Frisian oanhinger, Dutch aanhanger, German Anhänger. See: Dutch Nouns '
aanhanger', German Nouns '
Anhänger'.