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Coaxer

Definition: Coaxer

Coaxer

Noun

1. Someone who tries to persuade by blandishment and coaxing.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "coaxer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1765. (references)


Synonym: Coaxer

Synonym: wheedler (n). (additional references)

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Modern Translation: Coaxer

Language Translations for "coaxer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

mooiprater (flatterer). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

frazisto (flatterer). (various references)

   

German

  

Schmeichler (adulator, blandisher, blandishers, cajoler, fawner, flatterer, flatterers, sycophant). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κόλαξ (courtier, flatterer, sleeker, toady), παρακινητήσ (impeller, inducer, prodder). (various references)

   

Manx

  

cleayneyder (corrupter, enticer, seducer, tempter), breigeyder (allurer, cajoler, wheedler). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oaxercay

   

Vietnamese 

  

người tán tỉnh (wheedler), người dỗ ngọt. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Coaxer

Derivations

Words beginning with "coaxer": coaxers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Coaxer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: coaxe, coaxi, coxae, coxer, ocaer. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Coaxer"

Words rhyming with "coaxer" (pronounced 'Coax"er'): Abaser, Abater, Abider, Abjurer, Abridger, Absconder, Absenter, Absolver, Absorber, Abstainer, Abstracter, Abuser, Acceder, Accepter, Acclaimer, Accorder, Accruer, Accuser, Achiever, Acquirer, Adherer, Adjudger, Adjurer, Adjuster, Admirer, Adopter, Adorer, Adorner, Advertiser, Adviser, Advoyer, Affecter, Affirmer, Afflicter, Affrayer, Affreighter, Affrighter, Affronter, Aflicker, Agreer, Aider, Aimer, Airer, Aliner, Allayer, Alleger, Allower, Allurer, Altogether, Amasser. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Coaxer

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-o-r-x"

-1 letter: carex, coxae, ocrea.

-2 letters: acre, aero, arco, care, cero, coax, core, coxa, orca, race.

-3 letters: ace, arc, are, axe, car, cor, cox, ear, era, oar, oca, ora, orc, ore, rax, rec, rex, roc, roe.

-4 letters: ae, ar, ax, er, ex, oe, or, ox, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-o-r-x"
 

+1 letter: coaxers, exactor, exocarp.

 

+2 letters: anorexic, exactors, exocarps, morceaux.

 

+3 letters: anorexics, chronaxie, excavator, excoriate, execrator, extractor, hexachord.

 

+4 letters: chatterbox, chronaxies, excavators, excitatory, excoriated, excoriates, excusatory, execration, execrators, explicator, extraction, extractors, hexachords.

 

+5 letters: axonometric, carboxylase, carboxylate, exclamatory, excoriating, excoriation, exculpatory, execrations, executorial, exorbitance, expectorant, expectorate, explicators, explicatory, extractions, extrication, stereotaxic, xerographic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Coaxer


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 6F 61 78 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    ---    .-    -..-    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01101111 01100001 01111000 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#111 &#97 &#120 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006F 0061 0078 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

378167907184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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