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.
have dandled
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present perfectof dandle.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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They openly allege that they have dandled us on their knees at recent periods; washed and dressed us, and would do so still.
From By Shore and Sedge by Bret Harte
For aught I know, however, he may have dandled her on his knees when she was a child.
From A Top-Floor Idyl by George Van Schaick
Ah, it does an old woman credit to have dandled thee!
From Cleopatra by Henry Rider Haggard
They have dandled the baby on her knee, and supported the little toddler taking his first steps.
From Rembrandt A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation by Estelle M. (Estelle May) Hurll
I am glad, that I am, boy, to see you, whom I have dandled in my hands many a time, come to sea on the quarter-deck.
From Ben Burton Born and Bred at Sea by Archibald Webb
