the young mother sat [the infant] upright in her lap, and[…]dandled it with a gloomy indifference.
Source: wiktionary
Dandle
//ˈdændəl//
Synonyms for "dandle" (21 found)
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Translations
15 translations across 7 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- глезя verb (to treat with fondness, as if a child)
- дундуркам verb (to move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play)
- приласкавам verb (to treat with fondness, as if a child)
Czech
4 entries- houpat verb (to move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play)
- hýčkat verb (to treat with fondness, as if a child)
- kolébat verb (to move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play)
- pohupovat verb (to move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play)
French
2 entries- dodeliner verb (to move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play)
- se trémousser verb (to move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play)
Greek
1 entries- ταχταρίζω verb (to move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play)
Hungarian
2 entries- ringat verb (to move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play)
- térden lovagoltat verb (to move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play)
Māori
2 entries- morimori verb (to treat with fondness, as if a child)
- rapoi verb (to move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play)
Polish
1 entries- niańczyć verb (to treat with fondness, as if a child)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
You will nurse and be carried on her arm and dandled on her knees.
Source: wiktionary
Hands grasped me like a doll, and as I dandled thus between the meretrices of Abaia, I was lifted from my broad-armed chair in the inn of Saltus; yet still, for perhaps a hundred heartbeats more, I could not rid my mind of the sea and its green-haired women.
Source: wiktionary
[T]hey have put me in a silk night-gown and gaudy fool's cap, and make me now and then stand in the window with it. I am ashamed to be dandled thus, and cannot look in the glass without blushing to see myself turned into such a pretty little master.
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