fondle

verb
/ˈfɒndəl/

Etymology

From fond (“love, admire”) + -le (frequentative suffix).

  1. derived from fundus
  2. suffixed as fondle — “fond + le

Definitions

  1. To touch or stroke lovingly.

    • Mothers fondle their babies.
    • idly fondling the cat's ears
  2. To grasp.

    • The lovers fondled each other.
  3. A caress.

    • I gave the sleeping dog's ears a fondle as I walked past.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at fondle. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at fondle. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at fondle

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA