LekhoriLekhoriTo move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play, usually said of a child.
the young mother sat [the infant] upright in her lap, and[…]dandled it with a gloomy indifference.
To treat with fondness or affection, as if a child; to pet.
[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.
To play with; to wheedle.
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
A teeter-totter; a seesaw.
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 d...
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