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Fondling   /fˈɑndəlɪŋ/  /fˈɑndlɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Fondle  v. t.  (past & past part. fondled; pres. part. fondling)  To treat or handle with tenderness or in a loving manner; to caress; as, a nurse fondles a child.
Synonyms: Syn.- See Caress.



noun
Fondling  n.  The act of caressing; manifestation of tenderness. "Cyrus made no... amorous fondling To fan her pride, or melt her guardless heart."



Fondling  n.  
1.
A person or thing fondled or caressed; one treated with foolish or doting affection. "Fondlings are in danger to be made fools."
2.
A fool; a simpleton; a ninny. (Obs.)






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"Fondling" Quotes from Famous Books



... back, I found Miss Somers as she had been the day before, crouched listlessly in her long chair fondling her idol. I drew up a horsehair rocking-chair and ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1920 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... much of her; but Ellen shrank, she hardly knew why, from her fond caresses, and never found herself alone with her if she could help it, for then she was regularly called to the old lady's side and obliged to go through a course of kissing, fondling, and praising she would gladly have escaped. In her aunt's presence this was seldom attempted, and never permitted to go on. Miss Fortune was sure to pull Ellen away and bid her mother "stop that palavering," avowing that "it made her sick." Ellen ...
— The Wide, Wide World • Susan Warner

... there lie regions undiscovered: Hall on hall, and court on court; in my musings these I track. Suddenly a peal of laughter echoes through the cavern'd spaces; In I gaze, a boy is springing from the bosom of the woman To the man, from sire to mother: the caressing and the fondling, All love's foolish playfulnesses, mirthful cry and shout of rapture, Alternating, deafen me. Naked, without wings, a genius, like a faun, with nothing bestial, On the solid ground he springeth; but the ground, with counter-action, Up to ether sends him ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke

... While thou art fondling that serpent of thine, thy mistress's affairs may go hang! Haste with the treasure, or feel my anger. While thy useless eyes were mooning on nothing, the strangers have escaped. They are even now getting sail on the white vessel. Carry the chests down ...
— The Pirate Woman • Aylward Edward Dingle

... jaw as much as ever, I notice," said the animal delineator, fondling the beginnings of ...
— Mike • P. G. Wodehouse


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