Synonymer

Uttal

  • UK:
    • IPA: [ˈdændəl]
    • IPA: [ˈdændəɫ]

Ingen översättning hittades i den valda målspråket.

Definitioner

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.

Exempel

  • "you will nurse and be carried on her arm and dandled on her knees." – Isaiah 66:12 (NIV)
  • [T]hey have put me in a silk night-gown and gaudy fool's cap, and make me now and then stand in the window with it. I am ashamed to be dandled thus, and cannot look in the glass without blushing to see myself turned into such a pretty little master. – Addison
  • The book, thus dandled into popularity by bishops and good ladies, contained many pieces of nursery eloquence. – Jeffrey
  • Captains do so dandle their doings, and dally in the service, as it they would not have the enemy subdued. – Edmund Spenser

Böjningsformer

Perfektparticipdandled
Imperfektdandled
Presensparticipdandling
Tredje person singular indicativ presensdandles

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