dandle
dandle · dandles
A teeter-totter; a seesawA teeter-totter; a seesaw.
/ˈdændəl/
» I dandled the baby on my knee.
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1 sensesA teeter-totter; a seesaw.
Examples
1 sentencesI dandled the baby on my knee.
Origin
Compare Scots dandill (“to dander; go about idly; move uncertainly; trifle”), English dialCompare 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”).
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