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dandle
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Definition:to lightly bounce a child or baby (in arms, on leg)
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When the baby had been put to rights and transformed into a firm doll, Lizaveta Petrovna dandled it as though proud of her handiwork, and stood a little away so that Levin might see his son in all his glory.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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"And this," said he, dandling my hands up and down in his, as he puffed at his pipe,—"and this is the gentleman what I made!
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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