Cajole

Definition: Cajole

Cajole

Verb

1. Influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; "He palavered her into going along".

Date "cajole" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references)

Note: Cajole \Ca*jole"\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Cajoled; present participle verb or noun Cajoling.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Computing	CAJOLE (Chris And John's Own LanguagE) A dataflow language developed by Chris Hankin and John Sharp at Westfield College. ["The Data Flow Programming Language CAJOLE: An Informal Introduction", C.L. Hankin et al, SIGPLAN Notices 16(7):35-44 (Jul 1981)]. (1994-11-08). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
19th Century Satire	V. t., From Grk. kalos, beautiful, and Eng. jolly, to jolly beautifully. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.
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Synonyms: Cajole

Synonyms: blarney (v), coax (v), inveigle (v), palaver (v), sweet-talk (v), wheedle (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Deception	Decoy, waylay, lure, beguile, delude, inveigle; entrap, intrap, ensnare; nick, springe; set a trap, lay a trap, lay a snare for; bait the hook, forelay, spread the toils, lime; trapan, trepan; kidnap; let in, hook in; nousle, nousel; blind a trail; enmesh, immesh; shanghai; catch, catch in a trap; sniggle, entangle, illaqueate, hocus, escamoter, practice on one's credulity; hum, humbug; gammon, stuff up, sell; play a trick upon one, play a practical joke upon one, put something over on one, put one over on; balk, trip up, throw a tub to a whale; fool to the top of one's bent, send on a fool's errand; make game, make a fool of, make an April fool of, make an ass of; trifle with, cajole, flatter; come over; (influence); gild the pill, make things pleasant, divert, put a good face upon; dissemble.
Flattery	Verb: flatter, praise to the skies, puff; wheedle, cajole, glaver, coax; fawn upon, faun upon; humor, gloze, soothe, pet, coquet, slaver, butter; jolly; bespatter, beslubber, beplaster, beslaver; lay it on thick, overpraise; earwig, cog, collogue; truckle to, pander to, pandar to, suck up to, kiss the ass of, pay court to; court; creep into the good graces of, curry favor with, hang on the sleeve of; fool to the top of one;s bent; lick the dust.
Motive	Tempt, seduce, overpersuade, entice, allure, captivate, fascinate, bewitch, carry away, charm, conciliate, wheedle, coax, lure; inveigle; tantalize; cajole; (deceive).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Cajole

English words defined with "cajole": Cajoled, Cajoling ♦ Engle ♦ Ingle ♦ Supparasite. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Cajole" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (cajoles).

Title	Author	Quote
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	He stooped to the evil of hypocrisy with others, sceptical of their innocence which he could cajole so easily.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Rush Limbaugh	The Democrats bitch, moan, cajole, holler, whine and run around besmirching tax cuts and impugning the people that get them.
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"Cajole" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.11% of the time. "Cajole" is used about 53 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	98.11%	52	47,145
Lexical Verb (base form)	1.89%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	53	N/A

Expression using "cajole": cajole smth. out of smb.. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "cajole"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mikloj (beslobber), lajkatoj (adulate, Blandish, blarney, butter up, coax, flatter, make up to, palaver, play up to, smarm, soft soap, wheedle), ia nxjerr diçka me lajka. (various references)

Arabic		‏تملق (adulate, blandish, blarney, butter, butter up, cajolery, coax, coaxing, compliment, con, court, cringe, curry favor with, curry favour with, fawn, flatter, flattery, incense, ingratiate oneself, insinuation, kowtow, lick his boots, make, mawkish, oiliness, palaver, servilism, soap, soft soap, subservience, suck up to, sweet talk, taffy, toady, wheedle), ‏تزلف إلى, ‏داهن (adulate, blandish, butter up, flatter, flattering, sop, sweet talk, sweeten). (various references)

Bulgarian		лаская (adulate, beslaver, blarney, carny, coax, flatter, incense, jolly, palaver, sawder, soap, soft soap, sugar), предумвам (bring over, get round, induce, lead, persuade), подмамвам (allure, bait, carny, decoy, entice, juggle, lure on). (various references)

Chinese		謆 (beguile), 諂 (flatter). (various references)

Czech		zpracovat (compile, process, utilize, write up), získat (acquire, capture, carry off, come by, conciliate, drum up, elicit, enlist, gain, get, make, notch up, obtain, pick up, piece up, procure, pull, raise, score, secure, take, win), vymámit (beguile, extract, milk), přemluvit (bring round, coax, persuade, prevail, talk, talk round). (various references)

Farsi		چاپلوسی (Blarney, Flattery, Grease, Subservience), گول زدن (Bamboozle, Beguile, Cheat, Con, Deceive, Defraud, Doodle, Dupe, Entrap, Fool, Gaff, Gouge, Gull, Gum, Gyp, Hoax, Hustle, Jockey, Outwit, Rogue, Swindle, Wheedle), گول (Bilk, Cajolery, Cheat, Crimp, Deception, Gull, Humbug, Jape), ریشخندکردن (Bamboozle, Blarney, Coax, Lout, Wheedle). (various references)

Finnish		mairitella (flatter). (various references)

French		cajoler. (various references)

German		schmeicheln (adulate, Blandish, blare, bootlick, butter up, coax, dissemble, flatter, soften up, to flatter). (various references)

Greek		καλοπιάνω (coax, fawn, lick his boots, wheedle). (various references)

Hebrew		לש�"ל (coax, entice, persuade, seduce, tempt, wheedle). (various references)

Hungarian		hízelegve rábeszél, behízelgi magát (to get a leg in). (various references)

Indonesian		membujuk (candied, canvass, coax, endlong, gloze, persuade, talk a person into, wile). (various references)

Italian		persuadere (argue, bring, coax, convince, convince oneself, get, induce, persuade, persuade oneself, win), lusinga (adulation, cajolement, cajolery, enticement, flattery, illusion), allettare (allure, attract, charm, entice, lure, tempt, wheedle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		誑す (to cajole, to deceive, to seduce), 誑し込む (to cajole, to deceive, to seduce), たらし込む (all the same, bump, drop-by-drop, even so, lump, nevertheless, protuberance, so, swelling, tending to be, therefore, to cajole, to deceive, to seduce, wanting to be), 女�'丸め込む (to cajole a woman, to twist a woman round one's little finger), 丸める (to cajole, to curl up, to explain away, to make round, to roll up, to round off, to seduce). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		たらす (to cajole, to dangle, to deceive, to dribble, to hang down, to seduce, to slouch, to spill, to suspend), たらし�"む (to cajole, to deceive, to seduce), お�"な�'まるめ�"む (to cajole a woman, to twist a woman round one's little finger), まるめる (to cajole, to curl up, to explain away, to make round, to roll up, to round off, to seduce). (various references)

Manx		molley (baffle, bafflement, beguile, bluff, captivate, cheering, deceit, deceive, deception, disappoint, disappointment, foil, fool, impose, imposition, trick), breigey (allure, beguile, blandish, cajolery, coax, decoy, entice, enticement, inveigle, inveiglement, lure, persuade, seduce, seduction, wheedle). (various references)

Pig Latin		ajolecay.(various references)

Portuguese		persuadir (advise, bring, coax, cog, convince, counsel, dispose of, get around, induce, insinuate, lead, move, persuade, post, seduce, talk into, urge, woo), lisonjear (beslobber, bespatter, blandish, butter, butter up, coax, cog, flatter, jolly, lacking, lacrosse, palaver, soft soap, wheedle), adular (adulate, blandish, blarney, butter, butter up, fawn, flatter, pale, soft soap, wheedle). (various references)

Romanian		linguşi (blandish, butter, coax, flannel, flatter, jolly, palaver, toady, wheedle), amãgi prin linguşiri. (various references)

Russian		льстить (adulate, blandish, blarney, flatter). (various references)

Scottish		breug (amuse, entice, falsehood, lie). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		privoleti laskanjem, nagovoriti (blab, blandish, coax, inveigle, over-persuade, persuade, prevail, talk into). (various references)

Spanish		engatusar (coax, draw on, get round, hoodwink, jolly, lead on, palaver, vamp, wheedle). (various references)

Swedish		förmå (be able to, bring, can, cause, could, impel, induce, move, will). (various references)

Thai		โน้มน้าว (tamper). (various references)

Turkish		tatlı sözle kandırmak, razı etmek (argue smb. into smth., bring, bring over, cheat, fast-talk, persuade, prevail on, prevail upon), ikna etmek (argue, argue smb. into smth., assure, bring, bring over, bring round, coax, convince, convince smb. of smth., dispose, draw, entice, fast-talk, have a way with, induce, influence, interest, jolly, persuade, prevail on, prevail upon, satisfy, sell smb. on, wheedle, win, win smb. round). (various references)

Ukranian		умовляти (admonish, blandish, expostulate, persuade, ply, reassure, tempt, woo, word), улещувати (blandish, butter up, court, nurse), говорячи лестощі, виманювати (chouse, coax, work), лестити (adulate, bootlick, fawn on, flatter, honey, oil one's tongue, palp, soft soap, sugar). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	lacta, lactabant, lactaberis, lactabo, lactans, lactantem, lactantes, lactantibus, lactantis, lactantium, lactaret, lactat, lactatum, lactatus, lactaverint, lactaverunt, lactavit, palpo. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "cajole": cajoled, cajolement, cajolements, cajoler, cajoleries, cajolers, cajolery, cajoles. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Cajole" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bajuli, cahol, cajoe, cajol, cajolle, cajone, cajoule, caju, cajule, canjole, canole, carole, carolee, Casolo, cerole, chagool, Cigalle, cigoli, cojole, conjole, Cudjoe, cujole, kajole, Majolo, Shagolle, tajjal. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-j-l-o"
	-2 letters: alec, aloe, calo, coal, cola, cole, jole, lace, loca, olea.
	-3 letters: ace, ale, cel, col, joe, lac, lea, oca, ole.
	-4 letters: ae, al, el, jo, la, lo, oe.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-j-l-o"
	+1 letter: cajoled, cajoler, cajoles.
	+2 letters: cajolers, cajolery.
	+4 letters: cajolement, cajoleries, ejaculator, jackrolled.
	+5 letters: cajolements, conjectural, conjugately, ejaculation, ejaculators, ejaculatory, projectable.
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