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Answer for the clue "Petted; pampered ", 7 letters:
dandled

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vb. (en-past of: dandle)

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Dandle \Dan"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dandled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Dandling .] [Cf. G. d["a]ndeln to trifly, dandle, OD. & Prov. G. danten, G. tand trifly, prattle; Scot. dandill, dander, to go about idly, to trifly.] To move up and down on one's knee ...

Usage examples of dandled.

Most remarkable was his head: an outsized hairless browless ball that dandled forward and to one side as if too weighty for the neck.

He dandled his head on the other side, and his magnified eyes rolled merrily.

Deborah Gossip of this interesting bantling, which was forthwith dandled in dozens of feminine laps.

Berry, having certain business that led her through Kensington Gardens, spied a figure that she had once dandled in long clothes, and helped make a man of, if ever woman did.

The friends of his father-in-law dandled him on their knees, while he played with their whiskers, and, before he was thirteen months old, taught him to suck brandy impregnated with gunpowder, through the touch-hole of a pistol.

The artful agent having asked, with the mysterious air of an expert go-between, if he had not lately received a message from a certain young lady, and, being answered in the affirmative, gave him to understand, that she herself was a person favoured with the friendship and confidence of Wilhelmina, whom she had known from her cradle, and often dandled on her knee.

In a cushioned alcove, a drunken Tyroshi with a purple beard dandled a buxom young wench on his knee.

Lord Varner dandled a serving girl on his lap, nuzzling at her neck while one hand went exploring down her bodice.