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Definition: CAJOLING |
CAJOLINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Cajole |
Date "CAJOLING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references) |
Crosswords: CAJOLING |
| English words defined with "CAJOLING": Cajolement, cajolingly, coaxingly. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "CAJOLING": Cajole. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | There was Hitler, first ranting, then cajoling, then perfectly rational then raging and stamping like a-- like the ringmaster of some freak circus! (The Eagle Has Landed; writing credit: Jack Higgins; Tom Mankiewicz) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "CAJOLING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 88.46% of the time. "CAJOLING" is used about 26 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 88.46% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Noun (singular) | 7.69% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.85% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 26 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cajoling | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CAJOLING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
French | enjôleur. (various references) | |
German | schmeichelnd (adulating, bootlicking, coaxing, flattering, palavering, wheedling). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hízelgés (adulation, blandishment, blarney, butter, cajolery, coaxing, flattering, flattery, palaver, sawder, soft solder, sycophancy, taffy), hízelgő (coaxing, complimentary, encomiast, fawning, flatterer, flattering, lackey, pipsqueak, smarmy, spaniel, sycophant, sycophantic). (various references) | |
Italian | lusingare (adulate, allure, bait, cajoler, flatter). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 絡 (ensnaring, enticement, inveigling), 口が巧い (fair-spoken, honeymouthed, talking glibly), 口が上手い (fair-spoken, honeymouthed, talking glibly). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | くちがうまい (fair-spoken, glib, honeymouthed, smooth talker, talking glibly), ろうらく (ensnaring, enticement, inveigling). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ajolingcay.(various references) | |
Romanian | mieros (greasy, honeyed, ingratiating, oilily, oily, silky, sleek, smooth, smooth-faced, soapy, sugary, unctuous), mãgulitor (congratulate, flattering), linguşitor (adulatory, bootlicker, cajoler, crawler, encomiast, fawning, flatterer, flattering, flunkey, gratifying, ingratiating, oilily, reptile, servile, sleek, smoothie, spaniel, supple, supply, sycophant, toad, toad-eater, toad-eating, toady, yes man), ispititor (attractive, enticing, inviting, taking, tempting). (various references) | |
Scottish | beadarrach (fond, pampered, sportive). (various references) | |
Thai | การโน้มน้าว (cogency). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"CAJOLING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cahoolin, cajolings, kajoling. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CAJOLING" (pronounced kujō"ling) |
| 4 | -ō" l i ng | Bolling, bowling, consoling, controlling, doling, enrolling, extolling, foaling, growling, holing, paroling, patrolling, poling, polling, rolling, strolling, tolling, trolling. |
| 3 | -l i ng | ailing, ambling, angling, annealing, appalling, appealing, assailing, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, bailing, baling, balling, bankrolling, barreling, battling, beguiling, belittling, Belling, bicycling, billing, blackmailing, boggling, boiling, bottling, brawling, bristling, broiling, bubbling, buckling, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, burgling, burling, bustling, cackling, calling, canceling, cancelling, Carling, ceiling, channeling, chilling, chortling, chronicling, chuckling, circling, coddling, commingling, compelling, compiling, concealing, cooling, corralling, counseling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, cradling, crawling, crippling, crumbling, cuddling, culling, curling, curtailing, cycling, dabbling, dangling, darling, dawdling, dazzling, dealing, decoupling, derailing, detailing, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, dispelling, dissembling, distilling, doubling, dribbling, drilling, drizzling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwelling, dwindling, earthling, emailing, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, encircling, entailing, entangling, entitling, equaling, excelling, expelling, failing, falling, feeling, felling, fiddling, filing, filling, fizzling, flailing, fledgling, foiling, fondling, fooling, forestalling, foretelling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fulfilling, fumbling, funneling, galling, gambling, giggling, gobbling, grappling, Grayling, grilling, groundling, groveling, grueling, grumbling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, hailing, handling, hassling, hauling, healing, heckling, helling, hilling, hobbling, howling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hurling, hurtling, hustling, idling, imperiling, inhaling, initialing, inkling, installing, instilling, intermingling, jailing, jiggling, jostling, juggling, Keeling, killing, kindling, kneeling, labeling, leveling, lolling, Lulling, mailing, mangling, Marling, marshaling, meddling, Melling, middling, milling, mingling, mishandling, mislabeling, misspelling, modeling, mothballing, mottling, muddling, mulling, mumbling, muscling, nailing, needling, nestling, nibbling, nonruling, oiling, outselling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, paddling, paneling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, parceling, pearling, pedaling, peddling, peeling, pickling, piddling, piling, Pilling, Pindling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, propelling, prowling, pulling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, quelling, quibbling, quilling, Quisling, railing, rambling, rankling, rappelling, rattling, raveling, rebelling, recalling, reconciling, recycling, redoubling, reeling, refueling, regaling, rekindling, remodeling, repealing, repelling, rescheduling, reselling, resembling, reshuffling, retailing, retelling, retooling, revealing, reveling, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rilling, rippling, rivaling, roiling, rototilling, ruffling, ruling, rumbling, rustling, saddling, sailing, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scaling, scheduling, Schilling, schooling, scowling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, sealing, seedling, Seeling, selling, settling, shelling, shilling, shoveling, shriveling, shuffling, shuttling, sibling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, skilling, smelling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, Snelling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spelling, spilling, spiraling, spiralling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squabbling, squealing, stalling, stapling, starling, startling, stealing, stenciling, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strangling, strickling, stripling, struggling, stumbling, styling, suckling, surveilling, swashbuckling, swelling, swilling, swindling, swirling, swiveling, tabling, tackling, tailing, tangling, telling, thrilling, throttling, Tilling, tingling, tinkling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tooling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, trailing, trampling, traveling, travelling, trembling, trickling, trifling, trilling, tripling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twiddling, twinkling, twirling, unappealing, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfeeling, unfurling, unraveling, unsettling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, unwilling, veiling, waffling, waggling, wailing, walling, warbling, weakling, welling, whaling, wheeling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiggling, wiling, willing, wobbling, wrangling, wrestling, wrinkling, yearling, yelling, yodeling. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-j-l-n-o" | |
-1 letter: coaling. | |
-2 letters: agonic, alnico, jingal, lacing, oilcan. | |
-3 letters: acing, algin, align, aloin, along, cajon, clang, cling, coign, colin, conga, gonia, incog, jingo, liang, ligan, linac, linga, lingo, logan, logia, logic, nicol. | |
-4 letters: agin, agio, agon, anil, cain, calo, ciao, cion, clag, clan, clog, clon, coal, coil, coin, cola, coni, gain, gaol, glia, goal, icon, jail, jiao, join, laic, lain, lang, ling, lino, lion, loan, loca, loci, loin, long, nail, naoi, noil. | |
-5 letters: ago, ail, ain, ani, can, cig, cog, col, con, gal, gan, gin, goa, ion, jag, jig, jin, jog, lac, lag, lin, log, nag, nil, nog, oca, oil. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-j-l-n-o" | |
+3 letters: conjugality, jackrolling. | |
+5 letters: conjugalities, conjugational. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 41 4A 4F 4C 49 4E 47 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .--- --- .-.. .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01000001 01001010 01001111 01001100 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C A J O L I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0041 004A 004F 004C 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3735444946434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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