Crossword clues for fondle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fondle \Fon"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fondled; p. pr. & vb. n. Fondling.] [From Fond, v.] To treat or handle with tenderness or in a loving manner; to caress; as, a nurse fondles a child.
Syn: Syn.- See Caress.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, "treat with indulgence and affection" (now obsolete), from fond (adj.) + frequentative ending. Or possibly from the obsolete verb fond "be fond, be in love, dote" (1520s), from the adjective or altered from earlier fon. Sense of "caress" first recorded 1796. As a noun from 1833. Related: Fondled; fondling (1670s as a past participle adjective); fondlesome.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To touch or stroke lovingly. 2 To grasp.
WordNet
v. touch lightly and with affection, with brushing motions; "He stroked his long beard" [syn: stroke]
Usage examples of "fondle".
He could reach into the aquarium, fondle it, let it discharge its cnidoblasts, its stingers full of heroin, into his skin.
In the center of the barracks he found his key man, the obvious barracks bully, a monster of a man, naked, hairless, fondling two bawds and being fed whiskey by sycophants.
Smiling at him, she ran her fingers up his arm, over his biceps to playfully fondle his earlobe.
Rhine, where Farina sat, having on one hand Margarita, and at his feet three boys and one girl, over whom both bent lovingly, like the parent vine fondling its grape bunches in summer light.
The Incarnate God becomes a real child to be fondled and rocked, a child who is the loveliest of infants, whose birthday is the supreme type of all human birthdays, and may be kept with feasting and dance and song.
Fentolin was busy fondling one of her dogs, which she had raised to her lap, and Hamel was watching her with a tolerant smile.
While he spoke to me he fondled her rather the way a Magian will caress a dog as he discourses solemnly on the proper making of haoma or the creation of the world.
Possibly the quaint lines which nurses have long been given to repeat for the amusement of babies while fondling their infantine fingers bear a hidden meaning which pointedly imports the scrofulous taint.
Humans were particularly offended by the Ket propensity to fondle whatever was of interest.
My boys will be no end charmed to see you so ladylike, the colonel, above all, when they come here the night before the wedding to fondle my new attraction in gilded heels.
Though they fondled Miss Thomm, Zachary Shaw even going so far as to finger her vagina, they avoided fully molesting her.
His hands, fumbling, found the greasy gapes of wet yoni, felt labial cuts plantlash across his fingers and begin to draw there as he fondled Flopsy and Mopsy, left and right.
The pachuco fondled the religious medals around his neck, looking bewildered.
He fondled the gelatinous packets strapped to his waist, touched the intravenous tabes running into his chest and neck.
After a few moments Kolory brings forth his doll again, and while arraying it very carefully in the tappa and red cloth, alternately fondles and chides it.