Definitions for dandles

dandles dan·dle

Spelling: [dan-dl]
IPA: /ˈdæn dl/

Dandles is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 189 anagrams from letters in dandles (addelns).

Definitions for dandles

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 dandles

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

Examples for dandles

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

Word Value for dandles
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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