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Definition: Coaxing |
CoaxingAdjective1. Pleasingly persuasive or intended to persuade; "a coaxing and obsequious voice"; "her manner is quiet and ingratiatory and a little too agreeable". Noun1. Flattery designed to gain favor. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "coaxing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1664. (references) |
Synonyms: CoaxingSynonyms: ingratiatory (adj), blarney (n), soft soap (n), sweet talk (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Coaxing |
| English words defined with "coaxing": coaxer ♦ ingratiatory ♦ wheedler. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Some of them just shoot up without much coaxing. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Coaxing him. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Coaxing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 81.32% of the time. "Coaxing" is used about 91 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) | 81.32% | 74 | 38,813 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 9.89% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.49% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.3% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 91 | 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 |
coaxing soul | 2 |
coaxing cum | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "coaxing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | متملق (blandly, courtly, fawning, ingratiating, insinuating, oily, oleaginous, slimy, smooth, soapy, unctuous, wheedling), تملق (adulate, blandish, blarney, butter, butter up, cajole, cajolery, coax, 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), تلطف (condescend, deign). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | увещаване (exhortation), придумване. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "骗 (Coax, Coaxed, wangle, wangling, Wheedle, Wheedled, Wheedling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cajolerie (coax). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schmeichelnd (adulating, bootlicking, cajoling, flattering, palavering, wheedling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καλόπιασμα (cajolery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ש"ול (cajolery, persuasion, solicitation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szédítés (hocus pocus, rap), hízelkedés (blarney, cajolement), hízelkedő, hízelgés (adulation, blandishment, blarney, butter, cajolery, cajoling, flattering, flattery, palaver, sawder, soft solder, sycophancy, taffy), csábítás (allurement, attraction, bait, debauchery, enticement, lure, seduction, temptation), behízelgő (insinuating, silky, suave, sweet, unctuous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | mbok (coaxing particle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | persuasivo (cogent, convincing, persuasive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 猫'で声 (ingratiating voice, wheedling voice), 猫なで声 (ingratiating voice, wheedling voice), 手練手管 (art of coaxing, wiles). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ね"なで"え (ingratiating voice, wheedling voice), てれ"てく (art of coaxing, wiles). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cleaynagh (addict, attractive, circumventory, deviationist, inclinable, inclining, pervert, slopewise, tempter, witching), breigagh (alluring, enticing, persuasive, wheedling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oaxingcay lisonja (blandishment, blarney, butter, flattery, incense, lipstick, palaver, sawder, sugar), adulação (adulation, blarney, cajolement, cajolery, cringing, fawning, flatting, sawder, sugar, toadyism). (various references) уговаривание (suasion), задабривание. (various references) pridobijanje, nagovaranje (blandishment, cajolement, cajolery, inveiglement, persuasion, spiel, suasion). (various references) mimado (babied, daintily, indulged, pet, spoiled), halago (adulation, blandishment, compliment, flattery, gratification, pleasure, salve), engatusamiento (cajolement, cajolery, palaver, wheedle). (various references) koaxning. (various references) tatlılıkla kandırma. (various references) умовляння (admonition, blandishment, cajolement, cajolery, exhortation, expostulation, reassurance, remonstrance, suasion), підлещування (adulation, captation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | blanda, blande, blandimenta, blandimento, blandis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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"Coaxing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: coaxi, Cooxon, Coraxi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "coaxing" (pronounced kō"ksing) |
| 4 | -k s i ng | affixing, annexing, boxing, faxing, fixing, flexing, indexing, intermixing, mixing, perplexing, relaxing, taxing, vexing, waxing, xeroxing. |
| 3 | -s i ng | accessing, acquiescing, addressing, advancing, amassing, announcing, assessing, balancing, basing, blessing, bouncing, bracing, busing, bussing, buttressing, bypassing, canvassing, caressing, casing, ceasing, chasing, classing, coalescing, coercing, collapsing, commencing, compressing, condensing, conferencing, confessing, conversing, convincing, coursing, crisscrossing, crossing, cursing, cussing, dancing, debasing, decreasing, defacing, denouncing, depressing, diagnosing, digressing, disbursing, discussing, dismissing, dispensing, dispersing, displacing, distancing, distressing, divorcing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, dressing, eclipsing, effacing, embarrassing, embracing, encompassing, endorsing, enforcing, engrossing, enhancing, enticing, erasing, expensing, experiencing, expressing, facing, fencing, financing, focusing, forcing, freelancing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, glancing, greasing, grimacing, grossing, grousing, guessing, hairdressing, harassing, harnessing, hissing, horsing, icing, impressing, increasing, inducing, influencing, introducing, invoicing, kissing, Lancing, lapsing, leasing, lensing, licensing, loosing, massing, menacing, mensing, messing, mincing, missing, noticing, nursing, obsessing, oppressing, outdistancing, outpacing, outsourcing, overproducing, pacing, parsing, passing, piecing, piercing, placing, policing, possessing, pouncing, practicing, prancing, prejudicing, pressing, pricing, processing, producing, professing, progressing, promising, pronouncing, pulsing, racing, reassessing, rebalancing, recessing, redressing, reducing, referencing, refinancing, refocusing, rehearsing, reimbursing, reinforcing, reintroducing, rejoicing, relapsing, releasing, reminiscing, renouncing, replacing, repressing, repricing, reprocessing, reproducing, repulsing, repurchasing, resurfacing, retracing, reversing, rinsing, romancing, sacrificing, seducing, sensing, sentencing, sequencing, servicing, showcasing, silencing, slicing, sluicing, sourcing, spacing, spicing, splicing, sprucing, stressing, subleasing, suppressing, surfacing, surpassing, teleconferencing, tossing, tracing, traipsing, traversing, trespassing, trouncing, unceasing, unconvincing, underpricing, unpromising, videoconferencing, voicing, waltzing, wincing, wissing, witnessing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-n-o-x" | |
-1 letter: agonic, anoxic, axonic, coxing. | |
-2 letters: acing, axing, axion, coign, conga, gonia, incog. | |
-3 letters: agin, agio, agon, axon, cain, ciao, cion, coax, coin, coni, coxa, gain, icon, naoi. | |
-4 letters: ago, ain, ani, can, cig, cog, con, cox, gan, gin, goa, gox, ion, nag, nix, nog, oca. | |
-5 letters: ag, ai, an, ax, go, in, na, no, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-n-o-x" | |
+3 letters: coannexing. | |
+4 letters: coxswaining, excoriating. | |
+5 letters: anorexigenic, detoxicating, excogitating, excogitation, intoxicating. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6F 61 78 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. --- .- -..- .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101111 01100001 01111000 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C o a x i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006F 0061 0078 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37816790758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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