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UK
/fˈɒndəl/
]
[ US /ˈfɔndəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈfɔndəɫ/ ]
VERB
-
touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner
He caressed her face
They fondled in the back seat of the taxi
How To Use fondle In A Sentence
- He fondled the impression of her as of silverspun wire, of fine leather, of twisted hair-sennit from the heads of maidens such as the Marquesans make, of carven pearl-shell for the lure of the bonita, and of barbed ivory at the heads of sea-spears such as the Eskimos throw. CHAPTER X
- Freud's obsession with archaeology -- he liked to "fondle" antique objects while he ate -- has interested psychoanalysts more than archaeologists. Books: Seductions of the Soil
- Workers then parade the boars in front of sows and ogle and fondle sows 'genitals to see which pigs are "ready" to have a tube of pig semen shoved into them. Bruce Friedrich: Does Eating Meat Support Bestiality?
- Calling her over, Justine stroked her sleek face and fondled her mane.
- Now, they have come alive, taken on familial roles and line up to fondle 20-day-old Mose.
- The statement says Dunn told detectives that he told the women that he was going to "frisk" them, then fondled them for his own gratification rather than his safety. KVUE - Home
- No potentate ever nurtured their children more gently than a pachyderm fondles its young.
- Others fondled in their arms gazelles or savage whelps of wolves, and suckled them-young mothers these with babes at home, whose breasts were still full of milk; crowns they wore of ivy or of oak or blossoming convolvulus. The Bacchantes
- He also said the boy did not touch his penis but rather that he "fondled" the boy. Evening Mail news round-up
- He said he "fondled" three of the boys but denied having contact with the fourth. WCNC - News - World