dindle-dandle, v.
[Reduplicated form of dandle v., with change of vowel, expressing alternation.]
trans. To dandle or toss up and down, or to and fro.
c 1550 Coverdale Carrying Christ's Cross x. (ed. 1) 107 Rem. (Parker Soc. 1846) 263 Whether it be semeli that Chrystes body should be dyndle-danled & vsed, as thei vse it. |