Dandle vs Useful - What's the difference?
dandle | useful |
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. –
Having a practical or beneficial use.
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As a verb dandle
is to move up and down on one’s knee or in one’s arms, in affectionate play, as an infant.As an adjective useful is
having a practical or beneficial use.dandle
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Verb
(dandl)Derived terms
* dandlerSee also
* dander * fondle * petAnagrams
* (Webster 1913)useful
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