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dandle
verb[ T ]
old-fashioneduk /ˈdæn.dəl/ us /ˈdæn.dəl/
to hold a baby or child on your knee and move it up and down in a playful way（把婴幼儿抱在膝上一升一降地）逗趣
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Having in your hands
ahold
arm
chokehold
clasp
clench
cling
cup
enfold
grasp
grip
hand in handidiom
handle
hang
hang on
hang/hold on like grim deathidiom
nurse
onto
purchase
seize
taken
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.
Examples of dandle
dandle
A man in an apron dandles a naked baby in front of him, smiling and cooing.
This fine blossom of the capitalist system, who has been rocked and dandled into a legislator!
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