dandle

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• General-American, UK: /ˈdændəl/
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• General-American, UK: [ˈdændəɫ]
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• rhymes with -ændəl
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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 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”).

15 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: дундуркам (dundurkam) — to move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play
• Czech: pohupovat — to move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play
• Czech: kolébat — to move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play
• Czech: houpat — to move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play
• French: dodeliner — to move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play
• French: se trémousser — to move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play
• Greek: ταχταρίζω (tachtarízo) — to move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play
• Hungarian: térden lovagoltat — to move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play
• Hungarian: ringat — to move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play
• Māori: rapoi — to move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play
• Bulgarian: глезя (glezja) — to treat with fondness, as if a child
• Bulgarian: приласкавам (prilaskavam) — to treat with fondness, as if a child
• Czech: hýčkat — to treat with fondness, as if a child
• Māori: morimori — to treat with fondness, as if a child
• Polish: niańczyć — to treat with fondness, as if a child