Definition of "dandling" []

• Present participle of dandle. (verb)
• The act by which somebody is dandled. (noun)

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• "Her father had looked about, dusted himself down, and said aloud the name of the place to his dandling child, his teeth good and strong in his smile."
• "And after Siegfried slays Mime, he sits around, dandling the dwarf's severed head on his knee."
• "When your hand moves from side to side your dandling my dark abstraction and then when you send me to womb strewn I'm entirely marooned on the swoon."