Crossword clues for dandled
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: dandle)
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.