WHEEDLE

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


Etymology

Verb

wheedle (third-person singular simple present wheedles, present participle wheedling, simple past and past participle wheedled)

(ambitransitive) To cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery.

(transitive) To obtain by flattery, guile, or trickery.

Noun

wheedle (plural wheedles)

(archaic) A coaxing person.

Anagrams

• wheeled

Source: Wiktionary


Whee"dle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wheedled; p. pr. & vb. n. Wheedling.] Etym: [Cf. G. wedeln to wag with the tail, as a dog, wedel a fan, tail, brush, OHG. wadal; akin to G. wehen to blow, and E. wind, n.]

1. To entice by soft words; to cajole; to flatter; to coax. The unlucky art of wheedling fools. Dryden. And wheedle a world that loves him not. Tennyson.

2. To grain, or get away, by flattery. A deed of settlement of the best part of her estate, which I wheedled out of her. Congreve.

Whee"dle, v. i.

Definition: To flatter; to coax; to cajole.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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