Dandle

Quick meaning: Dandle is a verb meaning (transitive) To move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play, usually said of a child.

Meaning

(transitive) To move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play, usually said of a child.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To treat with fondness or affection, as if a child; to pet.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To play with; to wheedle.
3. (Rhode Island) A teeter-totter; a seesaw.

Example Sentences

You will nurse and be carried on her arm and dandled on her knees.

the young mother sat [the infant] upright in her lap, and[…]dandled it with a gloomy indifference.

The book, thus dandled into popularity by bishops and good ladies, contained many pieces of nursery eloquence.

captaines, who notwithstanding that they are specially imployed to make peace thorough strong execution of warre, yet they doe so dandle their doings, and dallie in the service to them committed

Word Forms

• dandles
• dandling
• dandled

Synonyms for dandle

Depending on context, synonyms include fondle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include daddle, diddle-daddle, faddle, diddle, doddle, daidle.

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