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Entries releated to WHEEDLE

 

BIENLY		Excellently. She wheedled so bienly; she coaxed or flattered so cleverly. French.
COAX		To fondle, or wheedle. To coax a pair of stockings; to pull down the part soiled into the shoes, so as to give a dirty pair of stockings the appearance of clean ones. Coaxing is also used, instead of darning, to hide the holes about the ancles.
COG		To cheat with dice; also to coax or wheedle, To cog a die; to conceal or secure a die. To cog a dinner; to wheedle one out of a dinner.
COLLOGUE		To wheedle or coax.
FETCH		A trick, wheedle, or invention to deceive.
FROE, or VROE		A woman, wife, or mistress. Brush to your froe, or bloss, and wheedle for crop; run to your mistress, and sooth and coax her out of some money. DUTCH.
GOADS		Those who wheedle in chapmen for horse-dealers.
SKIT		To wheedle.
SWEETNESS		Guinea droppers, cheats, sharpers. To sweeten to decoy, or draw in. To be sweet upon; to coax, wheedle, court, or allure. He seemed sweet upon that wench; he seemed to court that girl.
WHEEDLE		A sharper. To cut a wheedle; to decoy by fawning or insinuation.