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wheedling en · ADJ

Etymology

From wheedle + -ing.

Meanings

  1. Coaxing, aiming to persuade.
    • Then, in a soft, wheedling voice, "Canst thou not let me in, my little bird? Sure there are other lasses besides thyself who would like to trade with a poor peddler who has travelled all the way from Gruenstadt just to please the pretty ones of Trutz-Drachen." 1888, Howard Pyle, “ch. 9”, in Otto of the Silver Hand:
    • ESTRAGON: That would be too bad, really too bad. [Pause.] Wouldn't it, Didi, be really too bad? [Pause.] When you think of the beauty of the way. [Pause.] And the goodness of the wayfarers. [Pause. Wheedling.] Wouldn't it, Didi? 1954, Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot, →ISBN, page 8:

Forms

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more wheedling Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most wheedling Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

wheedlingly

wheedling en · NOUN

Etymology

From wheedle + -ing.

Meanings

  1. The act of one who wheedles.

Forms

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wheedlings Number=Plur lexicographic

wheedling en · VERB

Etymology

From wheedle + -ing.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of wheedle
    form of wheedle