wheedle

UK /ˈʍiː.dəl/ US /ˈʍiː.dəl/
verb 2noun 1

Definitions

verb

1

To cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery.

I’d like one of those, too, if you can wheedle him into telling you where he got it.

[…]whether, after preventing her from being the wife of Sir Walter, he may not be wheedled and caressed at last into making her the wife of Sir William.

2

To obtain by flattery, guile, or trickery.

If the worſt come to the worſt,—I'll turn my Wife to Graſs—I already have a deed of Settlement of the beſt part of her Eſtate; which I wheadl'd out of her; [...]

She tore off my cap, scratched, kicked, and buffetted me, till she had exhausted her strength, declaring, as she rested her arm, ‘that I had wheedled her husband from her.

noun

1

A coaxing person.

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