DANDLE • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Dandle

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

Dandle

verb

(past & past part. dandled; pres. part. dandling)

Move (a baby) up and down in one's arms or on one's knees.

Pet.

See images of 'Dandle'

Etymology of 'Dandle'

Related search:

dandle board

Share |

"Dandle" Quotes from Famous Books

... Acheronta movebo. Fearful Megaera, with her snaky twine, Was cursed dam unto thy damned self; And Hircan tigers in the desert rocks Did foster up thy loathed, hateful life; Base Ignorance the wicked cradle rock'd, Vile Barbarism was wont to dandle thee; Some wicked hellhound tutored thy youth. And all the grisly sprights of griping hell With mumming look hath dogg'd thee since thy birth: See how the spirits do hover o'er thy head, As thick as ...

— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. IX • Various

... than born: which no one would touch, or lift up, or kiss, or embrace, but from natural affection. And that is why all the animals have their udders under the belly, women alone have their breasts high on their bodies, that they can lift up their babes to kiss, to dandle, and to fondle: seeing that their bearing and rearing children comes not from ...

— Plutarch's Morals • Plutarch

Words linked to "Dandle" : dandle board, move, fondle, caress, portmanteau, displace, portmanteau word, blend