Dandle

Definition: Dandle

Dandle

Verb

1. Move (a baby) up and down in one's arms or on one's knees.

2. Pet, as of a small child.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dandle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references)

Note: Dandle \Dan"dle\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Dandled; present participle verb or noun Dandling.]. (references)

Endearment

Verb: caress, fondle, pet, dandle; pat, pat on the head, pat on the cheek; chuck under the chin, smile upon, coax, wheedle, cosset, coddle, cockle; make of, make much of; cherish, foster, kill with kindness.

Crosswords: Dandle

Albanian

tund (appal, appall, beat up, convulse, dangle, jar, jiggle, jog, joggle, jolt, shake, shake up, switch, wag, waggle, wield), përkund (cradle, dance, dangle, rock, shake), përkëdhel (canoodle, caress, cosher, fondle, pamper, pet, play about, spoon feed, stroke), ledhatoj (caress, fondle). (various references)

Arabic 

‏رقص (choreography, dance, dancing, foot, frisk, hop, limbo, perform, trip), ‏دلل (cherish, cocker, coddle, cosset, fondle, indulge, molly-coddle, mother, pamper, pet, spoil, spoon feed). (various references)

Bulgarian 

глезя (cosher, cosset, humor, humour, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, pet, slop over, spoil), подмятам (imply, intimate, slip in, throw out, throw up, toss up). (various references)

French

danser (dance), câliner. (various references)

German

wiegen (cradle, cradles, lull, nurse, rock, scale, shake, sway, to dandle, to weigh, weigh), schaukeln (bounce, jog along, pitch and toss, rock, sway, swing, swings, swung, teeter, toss about). (various references)

Greek 

χαϊδεύω (Blandish, caress, chuck, coddle, fondle, mollycoddle, pat, pet, stroke), χορεύω μωρό στα γόνατα, χορεύω μωρό στα χέρια, θωπεύω (caress, cosset, fondle, pet, stroke). (various references)

Hungarian

térden lovagoltat. (various references)

Indonesian

menimang. (various references)

Italian

dondolare sulle braccia, vezzeggiare (canoodle, cosher, cosset, fondle, nuzzle, pamper). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

あの方 (ah, airhead, ambiguous, cartoon character, contrary, farewell, fool, frankly, good-bye, he, inverse, kind of cookie, oaf, oh, opposite, saw-edged perch, she, that gentleman, to dandle, to fail in getting a job, uncertain, vague). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

あやす (to dandle). (various references)

Pig Latin

andleday.(various references)

Portuguese

embalar (box, cradle, lull, rock), balançar (balance, cantillate, consider, lurch, rock, send, shake, sway, swing, teeter, wabble, weigh, wobble), acariciar (blandish, canoodle, caress, cherish, chuck, embosom, fawn, fondle, hug, neck, nestle, nurse, paddle, pamper, pet, stroke). (various references)

Romanian

sãlta pe genunchi, rãsfãţa (amuse, caress, Cocker, coddle, cosher, divert, fondle, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, pet, spoil), legãna în braţe. (various references)

Russian 

качать (rock, sway, swing, swung), нянчить (dry nurse, nurse, nursed), ласкать (canoodle, caress, cosher, fondle, pet). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ljuljati na rukama. (various references)

Spanish

saltar sobre rodillas. (various references)

Swedish

vyssja (lull), vyssa, kela med (cuddle, fondle, pet), gunga på knät, gunga (nutate, rock, seasaw, swing, toss). (various references)

Turkish

sevmek (affect, be fond of, be sweet on smb., care, caress, enjoy, fancy, fondle, like, love, pet), oynatmak (budge, dance, dislocate, make play, move, run, screen, stir, wiggle, work, wriggle), okşamak (canoodle, caress, fondle, grope, Pat, pet, stroke), hoplatmak, şımartmak (baby, coddle, cosher, cosset, feather bed, indulge, pamper, pet, spoil, spoonfeed). (various references)

Ukrainian

колисати, гратися (frolic, play, sport, toy, wanton), гойдати (cradle, sway, swing, waff, wag, wiggle), пестити (brood, canoodle, caress, cherish, cosher, cosset, embosom, fondle, groom, nourish, nurse, nuzzle, pet, pettle, spoil). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "dandle": dandled, dandler, dandlers, dandles. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Dandle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Adande, andel, andle, daddle, Dadley, Dandie, Danoli, Darndale, Daudel, deddle, dendre, Dinlle, dirndle, Durdle, mandle, Naddle, Ndwandwe, pandle, Sandle, vandle, wandle. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: landed.

-1 letter: addle, dedal, eland, laded, laden, naled.

-2 letters: dale, dead, deal, dean, elan, lade, land, lane, lead, lean, lend.

-3 letters: add, ale, and, ane, dad, dal, del, den, eld, end, lad, lea, led, nae.

-4 letters: ad, ae, al, an, de, ed, el, en, la, na, ne.

+1 letter: candled, dandled, dandler, dandles, dangled, gladden, handled, ladened, unladed.

+2 letters: dandlers, danegeld, deadline, deplaned, duneland, duodenal, gladdens, handheld, headland, islanded, landside, pudendal, sandaled, tideland, unleaded, unloaded, unsaddle.

+3 letters: adenoidal, canoodled, dandelion, danegelds, datelined, deadlines, deleading, dreamland, dunelands, enfiladed, fanfolded, garlanded, gladdened, glandered, handhelds, handseled, headlands, headlined, invalided, laddering, landsides, landslide, laundered, middleman, nonleaded, rehandled, sandalled, scandaled, slandered, tidelands, underlaid, undulated, unsaddled, unsaddles, videoland.