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What does dandle mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word dandle? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To move up and down on one’s knee or in one’s arms, in affectionate play, as an infant.
  2. To treat with fondness, as if a child; to fondle; to toy with; to pet.
  3. (obsolete) To play with; to put off or delay by trifles; to wheedle.
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No individual can any longer dandle the world at the end of a brush.
He longs for grandchildren to dandle on his knee through his dotage.
Strange that it should undertake to dandle such delicate children in its arm.
And you'd love to have little grandsons to dandle on your knee.
Nobody is talking, no jokes are being cracked, there are no letters to read, no dinners to eat, no babies to dandle or kittens to stroke: where is the probable cause?
At every office, or so it seemed, there were bosses eager to fondle and dandle.

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