See wheedle in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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},
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"ref": "1951, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wife of Bath's Tale”, in Nevill Coghill, transl., The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977, page 290:",
"text": "Though he had beaten me in every bone / He still could wheedle me to love.",
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"ref": "1700, [William] Congreve, The Way of the World, a Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act III, scene xviii, page 51:",
"text": "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; [...]",
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"note": "without the wine–whine merger"
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"ipa": "/ˈwiː.dəl/",
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
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"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "přemluvit"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "cajole",
"tags": [
"perfective"
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"word": "přesvědčit"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "cajole",
"word": "lirkutella"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "cajole",
"word": "amadouer"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "cajole",
"word": "überreden"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "cajole",
"word": "beschwatzen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "cajole",
"word": "umschmeicheln"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "cajole",
"word": "schmeicheln"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "cajole",
"word": "herumkriegen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "cajole",
"word": "hízeleg"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "cajole",
"word": "lactō"
},
{
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "cajole",
"word": "pīnono"
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{
"code": "ro",
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"sense": "cajole",
"word": "flata"
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "cajole",
"word": "linguși"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "cajole",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "подли́зываться"
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"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "cajole",
"tags": [
"perfective"
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"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "cajole",
"tags": [
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"word": "обха́живать"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "cajole",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "ублажа́ть"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "cajole",
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"imperfective"
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"word": "прельща́ть"
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{
"code": "sco",
"lang": "Scots",
"sense": "cajole",
"word": "tice"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "cajole",
"word": "engatusar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "cajole",
"word": "camelar"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pidleščuvatysja",
"sense": "cajole",
"word": "підлещуватися"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "lastytysja",
"sense": "cajole",
"word": "ластитися"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "cajole",
"word": "chwidlo"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "cajole",
"word": "truthio"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "cajole",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "cocsio"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "obtain by guile or trickery",
"word": "vymámit"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "obtain by guile or trickery",
"tags": [
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"word": "vyloudit"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "obtain by guile or trickery",
"word": "abschwatzen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "obtain by guile or trickery",
"word": "abschmeicheln"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "obtain by guile or trickery",
"word": "abbetteln"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "obtain by guile or trickery",
"word": "abheucheln"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "obtain by guile or trickery",
"word": "erschmeicheln"
},
{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "obtain by guile or trickery",
"word": "abschwätzen"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "obtain by guile or trickery",
"word": "aus dem Kreuz leiern"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "obtain by guile or trickery",
"word": "aus den Rippen leiern"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "obtain by guile or trickery",
"word": "ottenere con lusinghe"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "obtain by guile or trickery",
"word": "pīnono"
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{
"code": "ru",
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"roman": "vymánivatʹ léstʹju",
"sense": "obtain by guile or trickery",
"tags": [
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"word": "выма́нивать ле́стью"
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"sense": "obtain by guile or trickery",
"tags": [
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"word": "вы́манить ле́стью"
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "vymanjuvaty lestoščamy",
"sense": "obtain by guile or trickery",
"word": "виманювати лестощами"
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"code": "cy",
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"sense": "obtain by guile or trickery",
"word": "hudo"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "obtain by guile or trickery",
"word": "twyllo"
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{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "obtain by guile or trickery",
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}
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"A coaxing person."
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"note": "without the wine–whine merger"
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