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dandle
/ ˈdændəl /
verb
- to move (a young child, etc) up and down (on the knee or in the arms)
- to pet; fondle
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Derived Forms
- ˈdandler, noun
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Other Words From
- dandler noun
- un·dandled adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of dandle1
First recorded in 1520–30; origin uncertain; perhaps akin to Italian dandola, dondola “a child's doll” and its derivative verb dandolare, dondolare “to rock, swing, dangle,” and akin to French dandiner “to swing back and forth, dandle” and se dandiner “to make a hip movement, sway the hips, gyrate, waddle”
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Word History and Origins
Origin of dandle1
C16: of uncertain origin
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Example Sentences
Nature, and his parents alike, dandle him, and 'tice him on with a bit of sugar to a draught of wormwood.
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Dismissing his guards, he lets the elder women dandle his children, while the younger admire his robes.
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I shall dandle a dozen of your young ones before these arms are withered.
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Nor did an hope to dandle thy infancy moue mee to desire thee.
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Merely in his character of connoisseur, however, Dandle glanced carelessly after his sister as she crossed the meadow.
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