dandleverb [ T ]
uk/ˈdæn.dəl/us/ˈdæn.dəl/old-fashionedto hold a baby or child on your knee and move it up and down in a playful way
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Having in your hands
- ahold
- arm
- clasp
- clench
- cling
- cradle
- cup
- enfold
- glove
- grab
- grasp
- hand
- handle
- hang
- hang on
- hang/hold on like grim death idiom
- hold
- hold on
- hold onto sb/sth
- pinion
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Examples from literature
- I shall dandle a dozen of your young ones before these arms are withered.
- I've dandled you on my knee when you were a baby, Master Jim.
- Newborn, they must be given suck to, rocked in a cradle, and dandled.
- Once or twice she stole a glance at the woman who had in the olden days dandled her on her knees.
- The man dandled it like a new-born infant.