transitive. To beguile, cajole, coax, wheedle; to entice, wheedle into going, to a place. Also, in good sense: To beseech, entreat. Also absol. and in…

To blandish, coax, court, gain over by caresses or coaxing. Obsolete.

To play upon the vanity or impressionableness of (a person); to beguile or persuade with artful blandishments; to coax, wheedle. Const. from, into, to…

transitive. To curry, wheedle, coax.

To flatter, encourage.

transitive. To prevail upon or entice (a person) with flattery; to cajole, wheedle. Later also: to tempt sexually; to entice into sexual activity.

transitive. To prevail upon or get one's way with (a person) by delusive flattery, specious promises, or any false means of persuasion. (‘A low…

transitive. To prevail upon or influence by blandishment, to coax. Obsolete.

transitive. To entice or persuade by soft flattering words; to gain over or take in by coaxing or cajolery.

To influence or persuade by caresses, flattery, or blandishment. Johnson says ‘To wheedle, to flatter, to humour: a low word’; cf. quot. 1663.

absol. or intransitive. To use soft flattering words; (of an animal) to fawn; †to wheedle in with, to curry favour with; †to wheedle with = sense 1.

intransitive or absol. To use cajolery. †to cajole with:—sense 1. Cf. persuade with (persuade, v. III.).

transitive. To win the consent or acquiescence of (a person) by artifice, flattery, etc.

transitive. = whillywha, v.

transitive. To wheedle, coax, cajole.

transitive. To take in or persuade by flattery; to wheedle, coax, cajole.

intransitive. To indulge in caresses and fondling endearments. Also formerly transitive, to persuade by endearments or deception.

transitive. To coax; to calm, appease. English regional (northern). Now rare.

transitive. To flatter or ingratiate oneself with (a person); (also) to bribe.

transitive. To cajole, flatter, persuade. Cf. smooth-talk, v.

transitive to flatter, to cajole; = sweet-talk, v. a.

(transitive) to do a snow job on (someone).