English
Noun
en-noun|sg=dangly thing
- context|informal|anatomy The uvula.
#*2001: Robin Lim, After the Baby's Birth
#*:He showed me the inside of her throat ... It looked like an open archway instead of an archway with a long dangly thing (which I now know is called an uvula) hanging down the middle.
#*2004: Princeton Review, Neill Seltzer, The 500 Best Ways for Teens to Spend the Summer
#*:If it happens to be the Simpons, or the dangly thing in the back of your throat, or why Jackie Chan is so much cooler than Jet Li, so be it.
#*2005: Bonnie K. Nygard, Tammy L. Green, Susan C. Koonce, Wow! Cody Investigates The World Of Wellness: Green Level
#*:Michelle's mouth was open wide. I could see the dangly thing hanging in the back.
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