Word Meanings - FONDLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To treat or handle with tenderness or in a loving manner; to caress; as, a nurse fondles a child. Syn.- See Caress. (more info) Etym:
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- WANTON
wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness." - TRIFLE
trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong - DALLY
trifle, talk nonsense, OSw. tule a droll or funny man; or AS. dol 1. To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle. We have trifled too long already; - WANTONNESS
The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness. Gower. The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness. Eikon Basilike. Young gentlemen would be as sad as - SPORTLESS
Without sport or mirth; joyless. - SPORTING
Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports. Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling operations, and the like. C. Kingsley. -- Sporting house, a house - SPORTIVE
Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry. Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court Shak. -- Sport"ive*ly, adv. -- Sport"ive*ness, n. - SPORTAL
Of or pertaining to sports; used in sports. "Sportal arms." Dryden. - PROCRASTINATE
To put off till to-morrow, or from day to day; to defer; to postpone; to delay; as, to procrastinate repentance. Dr. H. More. Hopeless and helpless Ægeon wend, But to procrastinate his lifeless end. Shak. Syn. -- To postpone; adjourn; defer; delay; - TRIFLER
One who trifles. Waterland. - DAWDLE
To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter. Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me. Johnson. We . . . dawdle up and down Pall Mall. Thackeray. (more info) Etym: - SPORTFUL
1. Full of sport; merry; frolicsome; full of jesting; indulging in mirth or play; playful; wanton; as, a sportful companion. Down he alights among the sportful herd. Milton. 2. Done in jest, or for mere play; sportive. They are no sportful - SPORTER
One who sports; a sportsman. As this gentleman and I have been old fellow sporters, I have a frienship for him. Goldsmith. - SPORTLING
A little person or creature engaged in sports or in play. When again the lambkins play --Pretty sportlings, full of May. Philips. - FONDLER
One who fondles. Johnson. - DAWDLER
One who wastes time in trifling employments; an idler; a trifler. - WANTONIZE
To behave wantonly; to frolic; to wanton. Lamb. - SPORTULA
A gift; a present; a prize; hence, an alms; a largess. To feed luxuriously, to frequent sports and theaters, to run for the sportula. South. - DELAY
A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance. Without any delay, on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat. Acts xxv. 17. The government ought to be settled without the delay of a day. Macaulay. (more - SPORTSMAN
One who pursues the sports of the field; one who hunts, fishes, etc. - DISPORT
Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness. Milton. - MISTRANSPORT
To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall. - TRANSPORTING
That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble. - TRANSPORTAL
Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin. - TRANSPORTABILITY
The quality or state of being transportable. - TRANSPORTED
Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried away with passion or pleasure; entranced. -- Trans*port"ed*ly, adv. -- Trans*port"ed*ness, n. - DISPORTMENT
Act of disporting; diversion; play. Dr. H. More. - TRANSPORT
1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops. Hakluyt. 2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish. 3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as - TRANSPORTABLE
1. Capable of being transported. 2. Incurring, or subject to, the punishment of transportation; as, a transportable offense. - TRANSPORTER
One who transports.