Usually means: Lift and move up, down.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. dandle: Merriam-Webster
  2. dandle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dandle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dandle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dandle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dandle, dandle: Wordnik
  7. dandle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dandle: Wiktionary
  9. dandle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dandle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dandle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dandle, dandle: Dictionary.com
  13. dandle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Dandle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. dandle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. dandle: Rhymezone
  17. Dandle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. dandle: FreeDictionary.org
  19. dandle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. dandle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. dandle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dandle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Dandle: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See dandled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play, usually said of a child.
verb:  (transitive) To treat with fondness or affection, as if a child; to pet.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To play with; to wheedle.
noun:  (Rhode Island) A teeter-totter; a seesaw.

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