Definitions for dandle

dandle dan·dle

Spelling: [dan-dl]
IPA: /ˈdæn dl/

Dandle is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 96 anagrams from letters in dandle (addeln).

Definitions for dandle

verb (used with object)

  1. to move (a baby, child, etc.) lightly up and down, as on one's knee or in one's arms.
  2. to pet; pamper.

Origin of dandle

1520-30; dand- (obscurely akin to the base of French dandiner to dandle, se dandiner to waddle, and related Romance words) + -le

Examples for dandle

I trust Mrs. Terry will get her business easily over, and that you will soon "dandle Dickie on your knee."

I have dandled your sons and daughters, Roberta, and may I live to dandle theirs!

And you'd love to have little grandsons to dandle on your knee.

I used to dandle you when you were an infant—good gracious, what red hair you had, and—it hasn't changed, not at all!

"We little know what's in the mind of the babies we dandle in our arms," and went feebly out.

Strange that it should undertake to dandle such delicate children in its arm.

It makes me laugh a little inwardly to see how they dandle their poetical babies, but I don't let them know it.

And if he had a little Harry dandle next Christmas, wouldn't he give him the first spoonful out of the marrow-bone!

“My turn to dandle,” he said, with a sly look at his aunt, and convulsed everyone.

Before I die I'd love to dandle a child of yours upon my knee.

Word Value for dandle
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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