wheedle
Meaning of wheedle
verb
- use flattery or coaxing in order to persuade someone to do something or give one something.
she wheedled her way on to the guest list
she had wheedled us into employing her brother
‘Please, for my sake,’ he wheedled
mid 17th century: perhaps from German wedeln ‘cringe, fawn’, from Wedel ‘tail, fan’.
Information about wheedle
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of wheedle is: wheedles.
- Languages in which wheedle is used:
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Hyphenation of wheedle
whee-dle
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- wheedle is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
wheedle synonyms
Meaning cajole:
cajole, palaver, blarney, coax, inveigle
Meaning tempt (a person or animal) to do something or to go somewhere, especially by offering some form of reward:
Meaning succeed in persuading or leading (someone) to do something:
Meaning attract or tempt by offering pleasure or advantage:
Meaning use one's ability to please and attract in order to influence (someone):
Meaning entice or try to entice (someone) to do something that they find attractive but know to be wrong or unwise:
Meaning charm or enchant (someone), often in a deceptive way:
Meaning lavish praise and compliments on (someone), often insincerely and with the aim of furthering one's own interests:
Meaning induce (someone) to do something through reasoning or argument:
Meaning have an influence on:
Meaning move or cause to move slowly or rhythmically backwards and forwards or from side to side:
Meaning poke with a finger, foot, or pointed object:
Meaning speak in order to give information or express ideas or feelings; converse or communicate by spoken words:
Meaning cause (someone) to believe firmly in the truth of something:
Meaning form (something) by putting parts together or combining substances; create:
Meaning come to have (something); receive:
Meaning make strong efforts to persuade or force (someone) to do something:
Meaning give reasons or cite evidence in support of an idea, action, or theory, typically with the aim of persuading others to share one's view:
Meaning think, understand, and form judgements logically:
Meaning try earnestly or persistently to persuade (someone) to do something:
Meaning attempt to persuade or coerce (someone) into doing something:
Meaning produce or maintain raised pressure artificially in (a gas or its container):
Meaning persuade (an unwilling person) to do something by using force or threats:
Translation of wheedle
- Spanish: convencer
- Italian: convincere, blandire, persuadere
- French: amadouer
Anagrams of wheedle
Words that rhyme with wheedle
Sterneedle, dipneedle, groundneedle, microneedle, needle, puckneedle, teedle, tweedle, medle, conquedle
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