Dandle vs Curdle - What's the difference?
dandle | curdle |
To move up and down on one’s knee or in one’s arms, in affectionate play, as an infant.
:* "you will nurse and be carried on her arm and dandled on her knees." – Isaiah 66:12 (NIV)
To treat with fondness, as if a child; to fondle; to toy with; 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. –
:* The book, thus dandled into popularity by bishops and good ladies, contained many pieces of nursery eloquence. –
(obsolete) To play with; to put off or delay by trifles; to wheedle.
:* Captains do so dandle their doings, and dally in the service, as it they would not have the enemy subdued. –
(ambitransitive) To form curds so that it no longer flows smoothly; to cause to form such curds. (usually said of milk)
(ambitransitive) To clot or coagulate; to cause to congeal, such as through cold. (metaphorically of blood)
* 1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley
To cause a liquid to spoil and form clumps so that it no longer flows smoothly
* 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
As verbs the difference between dandle and curdle
is that dandle is to move up and down on one’s knee or in one’s arms, in affectionate play, as an infant while curdle is (ambitransitive) to form curds so that it no longer flows smoothly; to cause to form such curds (usually said of milk).dandle
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(dandl)Derived terms
* dandlerSee also
* dander * fondle * petAnagrams
* (Webster 1913)curdle
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(curdl)- Too much lemon will curdle the milk in your tea.
- "Vich Ian Vohr," it said, in a voice that made my very blood curdle , "beware of to-morrow!"
- It is enough,' said the agitated Mr. Slurk, pacing to and fro, 'to curdle the ink in one's pen, and induce one to abandon their cause for ever.'