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.
Examplesofdandle
dandle
A man in an apron dandles a naked baby in front of him, smiling and cooing.
From theCambridge English Corpus
This fine blossom of the capitalist system, who has been rocked and dandled into a legislator!
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