Crossword-Solution: DANDLE 6 letters, 21 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Dandle v. t. To move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in
affectionate play, as an infant.
Dandle v. t. To treat with fondness, as if a child; to fondle; to toy
with; to pet.
Dandle v. t. To play with; to put off or delay by trifles; to
wheedle.

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DANDLE anagram DELAND, LANDED, LEDDAN

We have 21 clues for the answer “DANDLE”

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Bounce on one's knee, as a baby 1 answer
move up and down in one's arms or on one's knees 1 answer
move (a child) up and down on one's knee 1 answer
Treat with fondness, as a child. 1 answer
MOVE lightly up and down 1 answer
Knee-bounce. 1 answer
Caress; pet 1 answer
Bounce playfully 1 answer
Bounce on the lap 1 answer
Bounce on the knee. 1 answer
Bounce on one's knee 1 answer
Bounce on a knee 1 answer
BOUNCE child on knee 1 answer
Bounce, in a way 2 answers
Caress 12 answers
cosset 14 answers
Fondle 22 answers
Pamper 23 answers
BILL and coo 24 answers
Cuddle 24 answers
Pet 39 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with DANDLE (5)

For, as their nurses dandle them They crow binomial theorem, With views (it seems absurd to us) On differential calculus.
Fifty Bab Ballads W. S. Gilbert 2019
She will tend it and cherish it, laugh and cry with it, dress it in a new dress every day and dandle it in the world's eye for joy and pride in it--nay, she will bid the whole world come into her nursery to admire the pretty secret she keeps so well.
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard Eleanor Farjeon 2000
Since, however, the BABY does not stop wailing, he hovers over it in indecision; then, picking it up, sits down again to dandle it, with his face turned toward the open window.
The Little Man (From Six Short Plays) John Galsworthy 2004
The mother nurses the infant in her arms during most of her leisure moments, and she hushes it to sleep by crooning old lullabies as she rocks it in her arms or in a cradle suspended from a pliable stick.[169] The father hardly handles it during its first year, but many fathers nurse and dandle the older infants for hours together in the most affectionate manner; and, if the child's grandfather is living, he generally becomes its devoted attendant.
The Pagan Tribes of Borneo Charles Hose and William McDougall 2002
You have forgot how I was wont to dandle you on my knee, when you was a little urchin no bigger than a davit, and played a thousand tricks upon me, burning my 'bacco-pouches and poisoning my rumbo.
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Volume I Tobias Smollett 2003

Quotes with DANDLE (1)

Prayer before Birth I am not yet born; O hear me. Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the club-footed ghoul come near me. I am not yet born, console me. I fear that the human race may with tall walls wall me, with strong drugs dope me, with wise lies lure me, on black racks rack me, in blood-baths roll me. I am not yet born; provide me With water to dandle me, grass to grow for me, trees to talk to me, sky to sing to me, birds and a white light in the back…
Louis MacNeice
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 19 times in crossword archives (1954–2017).