verb (used with object), dan·dled, dan·dling. 1.to move (a baby, child, etc.) lightly up and down, as on one's knee or in one's arms.
Origin: 1520–30; dand- (obscurely akin to the base of
French dandiner to dandle,
se dandiner to waddle, and related Romance words) +
-le Related forms dan·dler, noun
un·dan·dled, adjective