Crossword clues for dandle
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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To move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play, as an infant.
Ye shall be dandled . . . upon her knees.
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To treat with fondness, as if a child; to fondle; to toy with; to pet.
They have put me in a silk gown and gaudy fool's cap; I as ashamed to be dandled thus.
--Addison.The book, thus dandled into popularity by bishops and good ladies, contained many pieces of nursery eloquence.
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To play with; to put off or delay by trifles; to wheedle.
Captains do so dandle their doings, and dally in the service, as it they would not have the enemy subdued.
--Spenser.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, of unknown origin. Perhaps somehow felt to be imitative. Compare Italian dondolare "to dandle, swing," and French dandiner, from Old French dandin "small bell," imitative of its sound. Related: Dandled; dandling.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To move up and down on one’s knee or in one’s arms, in affectionate play, as an infant. 2 To treat with fondness, as if a child; to fondle; to toy with; to pet. 3 (context obsolete English) To play with; to put off or delay by trifles; to wheedle.
WordNet
v. move (a baby) up and down in one's arms or on one's knees
pet; "the grandfather dandled the small child"
Usage examples of "dandle".
In the hard red light of dawn the leaves and vines dandled in the current seemed to deliquesce, to be runoff streams of dye, matter adrip into meltwater.
I suppose you hope Gareth Bryne will spend them dandling you on his knee!
From either side the broken half-moon of persons stand gazing at the LITTLE MAN, who sits unhappily dandling the BABY in the centre.
Buddhic cable-knit Harv, dandling his bear on his knee now, calmly asks Kevin Bain if it feels to his Inner Infant like Mommy and Daddy were ever going to appear cribside to meet his needs.
Don Gately as they pass on the crowded street, Don Gately, like pretty much all heterosexual drug addicts, has within a couple blocks mentally wooed, shacked up with, married and had kids by that female, all in the future, all in his head, mentally dandling a young Gately on his mutton-joint knee while this mental Mrs.
From one issue the notes of a piano, which a young lady in ringlets practises six hours daily, to the delight of the fellow-lodgers: at another, lovely Polly, the nurse-maid, may be seen dandling Master Omnium in her arms: whilst Jacob, his papa, is beheld eating prawns, and devouring the Times for breakfast, at the window below.
He approached Blanche Evers, smiling and dandling his body a little, and making her two or three jocular bows.
It was early evening at the Palazzo Muti and the king whose kingdom its walls comprised had intended to visit the nursery before dinner to dandle his celebrated infant.
Binny, the mild and genteel curate of the district chapel, which the family attended, call assiduously upon the widow, dandle the little boy on his knee, and offer to teach him Latin, to the anger of the elderly virgin, his sister, who kept house for him?
When thou wast a babe I dandled thee upon my knees, now shall my old arm strike for thee and freedom.
She handles him, She dandles him, She fondles him and eyes him: And if upon a tear he wakes, With many a kiss she dries him: She covets every move he makes, And never enough can prize him.
And certes it hath oftentimes bene seene,That of the like, whose linage was vnknowne,More braue and noble knights haue raysed beene,As their victorious deedes haue often showen,Being with fame through many Nations blowen,Then those, which haue bene dandled in the lap.
The blond and Buddhic cable-knit Harv, dandling his bear on his knee now, calmly asks Kevin Bain if it feels to his Inner Infant like Mommy and Daddy were ever going to appear cribside to meet his needs.
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.