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plural fondlings
(obsolete) A foolish person. quotations
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 […].
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
'How can you say I am harsh, you naughty fondling?' cried the mistress, amazed at the unreasonable assertion.
1847, Emily Brontë, chapter 10, in Wuthering Heights, volume I
A pet or person who is fondled; someone who is much loved. examples
present participle and gerund of fondle examples
The act of caressing; manifestation of tenderness. quotations examples
amorous fondling
1835, Emma Whitehead, Pierce Falcon, the Outcast