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Sweet-talk

Definition: Sweet-talk

Sweet-talk

Verb

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

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


Synonyms: Sweet-talk

Synonyms: blarney (v), cajole (v), coax (v), inveigle (v), palaver (v), wheedle (v). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Sweet-talk

"Sweet-talk" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sweet-talk" is used about 3 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Sweet-talk

Language Translations for "sweet-talk"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

η"œθ°ˆθ―. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

言い丸める (to do sweet-talk). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

いいまるめる (to do sweet-talk). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

감미둭 λ§ν•˜μ‹­μ‹œμš". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eet-talksway

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Sweet-talk

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-k-l-s-t-t-w"

-2 letters: kettles, wattles, weakest.

-3 letters: elates, estate, kettle, latest, latkes, lattes, settle, stelae, teasel, testae, tweaks, tweets, wattle, weasel.

-4 letters: akees, askew, easel, elate, kales, keels, keets, lakes, latke, latte, leaks, lease, least, leeks, leets, setae, setal, skate, skeet, slake, slate, sleek, sleet, stake, stale, stalk, state, steak, steal, steek, steel, stela, stele, swale.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-k-l-s-t-t-w"
 

+3 letters: streetwalker.

 

+4 letters: streetwalkers, streetwalking.

 

+5 letters: streetwalkings.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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