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词汇 dandle
释义 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
Examples from literature

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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