fondling
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Noun
fondling (plural fondlings)
- (obsolete) A foolish person.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.6:
- Yet were her words and lookes but false and fayned, / To some hid end to make more easie way, / Or to allure such fondlings whom she trayned / Into her trap […].
- 1847, Emily Brontë, chapter 10, in Wuthering Heights, volume I:
- 'How can you say I am harsh, you naughty fondling?' cried the mistress, amazed at the unreasonable assertion.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.6:
- A pet or person who is fondled; someone who is much loved.
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Noun
fondling (plural fondlings)
- The act of caressing; manifestation of tenderness.
- Mickle
- Cyrus made no […] amorous fondling / To fan her pride, or melt her guardless heart.
- Mickle
References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
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