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
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
He dandles on his knee a little princess, daughter of Amenhotep III., whose foster-father he was, and who died before him.
From Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt by G. (Gaston) Maspero
Molière is kind to his bourgeois, envelops him softly in satire as in cotton-wool, dandles him like a great baby; and Coquelin is without bitterness, stoops to make stupidity heroic, a distinguished stupidity.
From Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory by Arthur Symons
"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
