Dote vs Fondle - What's the difference?
dote | fondle |
To be excessively fond of.
(archaic) To act in a foolish manner; to be senile.
* Dryden
* South
(Ireland) A darling, a cutie.
* Ted’s daughter is such a dote .
(obsolete) An imbecile; a dotard.
To touch or stroke lovingly.
To grasp.
As verbs the difference between dote and fondle
is that dote is to be excessively fond of while fondle is to touch or stroke lovingly.As a noun dote
is a darling, a cutie.dote
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Alternative forms
* doat (obsolete)Verb
(dot)- Little Bill's parents just keep doting on him.
- Time has made you dote , and vainly tell / Of arms imagined in your lonely cell.
- He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated, and doted long before he died.
Synonyms
* (to be fond of) adore, loveNoun
(en noun)- (Halliwell)
Anagrams
* ----fondle
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Verb
- Mothers fondle their babies.
- The lovers fondled each other.