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ˈhoney-ˌfuggle, -ˌfugle, v. U.S. colloq.
Also -fackle, -fogle.
[app. f. honey n. + fugle v.1, perh. after dial. connyfogle (E.D.D.).]
1. trans.
a. To dupe, deceive, swindle.
1829Virginia Literary Museum I. 458 Honeyfuggle, to quiz, to cozen. 1856Knickerbocker XLVIII. 286 They go cavorting out, honey-fuggling their consciences. 1888Century Mag. XXXVI. 81/2 A-tryin' to honey-fugle the varmint to git 'im to come underneath. 1902W. N. Harben Abner Daniel xix, He's been tryin' to honey⁓fuggle the old man into a trade. 1906Dialect Notes III. 141 He can't honey-fuggle him.
b. To obtain by duplicity or wheedling.
1905D. G. Phillips Plum Tree xxiii, Whatever terms he could honeyfugle out of my conciliation-mad candidate. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §223/7 Coax; wheedle..honeyfogle.
2. intr. To act in an underhand or indirect way, in order to deceive or to obtain by duplicity.
1856Congress. Globe 22 July, App. 965 Pardon me for using the word, but Sharp ‘honey-fuggled’ around me. 1888Missouri Republican 20 Jan. (Farmer), Noonan's companion objected to this honey-fugling by knocking the demonstrative stranger down. 1906Nation (N.Y.) 22 Feb. 149 ‘Don't honey-fugle,’ he advised the committee, ‘but go to the bottom in any way possible.’ 1941Time 26 May 16/3 Things which..Baruch had to wangle by what he called ‘buttering & honey-fuggling’. 1952T. Pyles Words & Ways Amer. Eng. vi. 129 Even today some of these ‘tall’ words, words like..to honeyfogle..are popularly regarded as picturesque and admirably American. |