Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to dandle
Participle: dandled
Gerund: dandling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | dandle |
| you | dandle |
| he;she;it | dandles |
| we | dandle |
| you | dandle |
| they | dandle |
Perfect
| I | have dandled |
| you | have dandled |
| he;she;it | has dandled |
| we | have dandled |
| you | have dandled |
| they | have dandled |
Past
| I | dandled |
| you | dandled |
| he;she;it | dandled |
| we | dandled |
| you | dandled |
| they | dandled |
Pluperfect
| I | had dandled |
| you | had dandled |
| he;she;it | had dandled |
| we | had dandled |
| you | had dandled |
| they | had dandled |
Future
| I | will dandle |
| you | will dandle |
| he;she;it | will dandle |
| we | will dandle |
| you | will dandle |
| they | will dandle |
Future Perfect
| I | will have dandled |
| you | will have dandled |
| he;she;it | will have dandled |
| we | will have dandled |
| you | will have dandled |
| they | will have dandled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | dandle |
| you | dandle |
| he;she;it | dandle |
| we | dandle |
| you | dandle |
| they | dandle |
Perfect
| I | have dandled |
| you | have dandled |
| he;she;it | have dandled |
| we | have dandled |
| you | have dandled |
| they | have dandled |
Imperfect
| I | dandled |
| you | dandled |
| he;she;it | dandled |
| we | dandled |
| you | dandled |
| they | dandled |
Pluperfect
| I | had dandled |
| you | had dandled |
| he;she;it | had dandled |
| we | had dandled |
| you | had dandled |
| they | had dandled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would dandle |
| you | would dandle |
| he;she;it | would dandle |
| we | would dandle |
| you | would dandle |
| they | would dandle |
Perfect
| I | would have dandled |
| you | would have dandled |
| he;she;it | would have dandled |
| we | would have dandled |
| you | would have dandled |
| they | would have dandled |
Imperative
| you | dandle |
| we | Let's dandle |
| you | dandle |
Verbs conjugated like 'dandle'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'dandle'
candle,
daddle,
dadle,
daidle,
dangle,
dawdle,
dindle,
handle,
addle,
anele,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to treat with fondness
- fondle, pamper
- to touch someone lovingly
- canoodle, caress, chuckle, coax, cosset, dally, dawt, faddle, feel up, fond, fondle, grabble, grope, nantle, pet, pettle, shift, smuggle, tiddle, touch up
- to treat gently or with great care
- chuckle, cocker, coddle, cosset, make much, nustle, pamper, pettle, posset, tidder
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Compare Scots dandill (“to dander; go about idly; move uncertainly; trifle”), English dialectal dander (“to wander about; talk incoherently; rave”), Middle Dutch dantinnen (“to trifle”) (from French dandiner (“to swing; waddle”)), German dändeln, tändeln (“to trifle, dandle”), Middle Dutch and Provincial German danten (“to do foolish things; trifle”), German Tand (“trifle, prattle”).
Verbs referencing "dandle"
German, old spelling
tändeln.
Sample Sentences
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the young mother sat [the infant] upright in her lap, and[…]dandled it with a gloomy indifference. [1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles:]
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You will nurse and be carried on her arm and dandled on her knees. [1978, Bible, New International Version, Isaiah 66:12]
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Hands grasped me like a doll, and as I dandled thus between the meretrices of Abaia, I was lifted from my broad-armed chair in the inn of Saltus; yet still, for perhaps a hundred heartbeats more, I could not rid my mind of the sea and its green-haired women. [1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter VIII, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 72:]
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[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. [1711 July 31 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “FRIDAY, July 21, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 113; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:]
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The book, thus dandled into popularity by bishops and good ladies, contained many pieces of nursery eloquence. [1807 April, Francis Jeffrey, “Forbe's Life of Dr. Beattie”, in The Edinburgh Review:]
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“Mark,” said Gabriel, sternly, “now you mind this: none of that dalliance-talk—that philandering way—that dandle-smack-and-coddle style of yours—about Miss Everdene. I don’t allow it. Do you hear?” [1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC:]
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captaines, who notwithstanding that they are specially imployed to make peace thorough strong execution of warre, yet they doe so dandle their doings, and dallie in the service to them committed [1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:]