dandle
verb (used with object)
to move (a baby, child, etc.) lightly up and down, as on one's knee or in one's arms.
dandles
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present tense formof dandle (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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The stately U.S. elm, which inspires the weekend artist and dandles the infant oriole, is in worse danger than ever.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I tell him to forget his name, and he forgets his name; I tell him that he has a baby on his lap, and he sees and feels and dandles it."
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
He has no pipe, and he talks kindly to his wife, and dandles his son on his knee.
From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Hugh Thomson
He dandles the child of the forest on his shoulder instead of his children by you in the house.
From Bride of the Mistletoe by James Lane Allen
A father who never dandles his child on his knee cannot have a very keen sense of the responsibilities of paternity.
From In Darkest England and the Way Out by William Booth
