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Knead vs Fondle - What's the difference?

knead | fondle |

As verbs the difference between knead and fondle

is that knead is (to work and press into a mass) To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc while fondle is to touch or stroke lovingly.

knead

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Verb

(en verb)
  • (senseid)To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc.
  • * 2001 , Özcan Ozan, Carl Tremblay, The Sultan's Kitchen: A Turkish Cookbook
  • Knead the dough by pressing down on it with the heels of both your palms and pushing it forward to stretch it, then pulling it back toward you...
  • (figuratively) To treat or form as if by kneading; to beat.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I will knead him: I'll make him supple.
  • (of cats) To make an alternating pressing motion with the two front paws.
  • * 1991 , Grace McHattie, That's cats!: a compendium of feline facts
  • Cats knead with their paws when happy, just as they kneaded when feeding from their mothers as kittens.

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    fondle

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    Verb

  • To touch or stroke lovingly.
  • Mothers fondle their babies.
  • To grasp.
  • The lovers fondled each other.

    Derived terms

    * fondler * fondlingly

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    See also

    * dandle * pet

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