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Dandle

verb
(past & past part. dandled; pres. part. dandling)
1.
Move (a baby) up and down in one's arms or on one's knees.
2.
Pet.



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"Dandle" Quotes from Famous Books



... I ever have a son Upon my knee to dandle, I'll feed him with a wooden spoon Of elongated ...
— A Collection of College Words and Customs • Benjamin Homer Hall
... very much to be a baby. It is not right to one to begin them until a little they can resist to them who would hold them helpless, kiss and dandle and fix them as they were then, such a very little thing, just nothing inside to them. I say it is not right to many of them then to begin them, but it is not all of them who would resist them. There are ...
— Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein - With Two Shorter Stories • Gertrude Stein
... at an infantile frailty's a scandal; Let bygones be bygones, for somebody knows It was bliss such a Baby to dance and to dandle,— Your cheeks were so ...
— The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 • Ministry of Education


Words linked to "Dandle" :   portmanteau word, portmanteau, displace, caress, blend, dandle board, fondle, move


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