Definition of "dandled" [dandled]

• Simple past tense and past participle of dandle. (verb)

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• "Wilshere is a delicate thing, to be dandled and stroked and made much of, perhaps even quartered in a very small secure dark room, some kind of sealed basement annexe."
• "Neepoosa, who dandled thee in her arms when thou wast a child."
• "Wolfgang Wagner, who disinherited his brother's children and his own son to leave Bayreuth in the hands of two rival daughters, Eva and Katharina, was the last grandchild to be dandled on Cosima's meddlesome knee."