WHEEDLE

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To entice by soft words; to cajole; to flatter; to coax. The unlucky art of wheedling fools. Dryden. And wheedle a world that loves him not. Tennyson.

2.
v.

To grain, or get away, by flattery. A deed of settlement of the best part of her estate, which I wheedled out of her. Congreve.

3.
v.

To flatter; to coax; to cajole.

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