1. fondle - Noun
2. fondle - Verb
To treat or handle with tenderness or in a loving manner; to caress; as, a nurse fondles a child.
Source: Webster's dictionaryEveryone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age? Desiderius Erasmus
God took a child to fondle him in His bosom of delight; but the mother wept and would not be consoled because her child no longer existed. Sri Aurobindo
Hell, the world isn't worth reforming or even aiding as I can see. Men are swine and most women are fools. Befriend a man and he'll betray you. Fondle a woman and she'll double-cross you – whip her and she'll cringe to you. Robert E. Howard
The fathers, if they got me alone, would try to kiss and fondle me. I hated it. Christine Keeler
There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronizing wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them. Glen Cook
It is easier to fondle lassies, than to cut timbers. Bulgarian Proverb