dandle
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- transitive verb To move (a small child) up and down on the knees or in the arms in a playful way: "Somebody who was dandled on Queen Victoria's knee must appear an old fogy” (Edward, Duke of Windsor).
- transitive verb To pamper or pet.
- noun Narragansett Bay See seesaw. See Regional Note at teeter-totter.
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- It's not long jumps through the black -- that is when he can relax and dandle babies. — Citizen Of The Galaxy
- Their guts will grease the points of our sabers, their heads dandle from our saddle-posts like green gourds! — Conan The Warlord
- The painted vases in the Palace rooms held daffodils and sprays of almond flowers; the young men dressed their hair with violets, and the ladies decked their boy-dolls, which they would dandle till midsummer and then hang on the fruit trees, for they play at sacrifice as at everything else. — The King Must Die
- "You know; an elderly woman's urgent desire for grandchildren to dandle upon her knee, spoil with sweetmeats, and generally corrupt. — Drums of Autumn
- That young man will dandle you on his knee — A Crown of Swords
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/ (dănˈdl)/
ahd pronounces "dandle"
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