blarney, coaxing, soft soap, sweet talk
(noun) flattery designed to gain favor
wheedle, cajole, palaver, blarney, coax, sweet-talk, inveigle
(verb) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; “He palavered her into going along”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
blarney (uncountable)
Mindless chatter.
Ability to talk constantly and fluently.
Persuasive flattery or kind speech; smooth, wheedling talk.
blarney (third-person singular simple present blarneys, present participle blarneying, simple past and past participle blarneyed)
To beguile with flattery.
• Braelyn, Braylen
Blarney
A town in Cork, Ireland, location of Blarney Castle and the Blarney Stone.
• Braelyn, Braylen
Source: Wiktionary
Blar"ney, n. Etym: [Blarney, a village and castle near Cork.]
Definition: Smooth, wheedling talk; flattery. [Colloq.] Blarney stone, a stone in Blarney castle, Ireland, said to make those who kiss it proficient in the use of blarney.
Blar"ney, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blarneyed; p. pr. & vb. n. Blarneying.]
Definition: To influence by blarney; to wheedle with smooth talk; to make or accomplish by blarney. "Blarneyed the landlord." Irving. Had blarneyed his way from Long Island. S. G. Goodrich.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 April 2024
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
