fondling


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fon·dle

 (fŏn′dl)
v. fon·dled, fon·dling, fon·dles
v.tr.
1. To handle, stroke, or touch lovingly. See Synonyms at caress.
2. To handle, stroke, or touch sexually and inappropriately.
3. Obsolete To treat with indulgence and solicitude; pamper.
v.intr.
1. To show fondness or affection by stroking or touching.
2. To touch, stroke, or handle someone or something sexually and inappropriately.
[Frequentative of fond, to show fondness for (obsolete).]
fon′dler n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.fondling - affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs)fondling - affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs)
caressing, cuddling, hugging, kissing, petting, smooching, snuggling, necking
arousal, stimulation - mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse
snogging - (British informal) cuddle and kiss
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After behaving as badly as possible all day, she sometimes came fondling to make it up at night.
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The mother had taken the little Prince in her lap and was fondling and kissing him lovingly, for he was her youngest born.
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But Arthur would have known what was wanting to its completeness, though he had never heard of the words Little mother; though he had never seen the fondling of the small spare hand; though he had had no sight for the tears now standing in the colourless eyes; though he had had no hearing for the sob that checked the clumsy laugh.
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Tom had long ago taught Roxy "her place." It had been many a day now since she had ventured a caress or a fondling epithet in his quarter.
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By birth she belonged to Highbury: and when at three years old, on losing her mother, she became the property, the charge, the consolation, the fondling of her grandmother and aunt, there had seemed every probability of her being permanently fixed there; of her being taught only what very limited means could command, and growing up with no advantages of connexion or improvement, to be engrafted on what nature had given her in a pleasing person, good understanding, and warmhearted, wellmeaning relations.
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and her hands fondling his hair, and her happy tears running down.
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