Wheedle

Definition: Wheedle

Wheedle

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.
 

Date "wheedle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Slang in 1811

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

Synonyms: Wheedle

Endearment

Verb: caress, fondle, pet, dandle; pat, pat on the head, pat on the cheek; chuck under the chin, smile upon, coax, wheedle, cosset, coddle, cockle; make of, make much of; cherish, foster, kill with kindness.

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).

Crosswords: Wheedle

Books

• Ubaldo El Inconforme: Wheedle on the Needle (Coleccion Serendipity/Serendipity Books) (reference)

• Wheedle on the Needle/Cassette and Book (reference)

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

Expressions using "wheedle": wheedle into doing smth. ♦ wheedle smth. out of smb.. Additional references.

Albanian

marr me të mirë (Blandish, coax, propitiate), lajkatoj (adulate, Blandish, blarney, butter up, cajole, coax, flatter, make up to, palaver, play up to, smarm, soft soap), ia zhvat me fjalë të bukura. (various references)

Arabic 

‏نال بالتملق, ‏تملق (adulate, blandish, blarney, butter, butter up, cajole, 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). (various references)

Bulgarian 

придумвам чрез ласкателство, измъквам (disentangle, drag out, drag up, extract, extricate, ferret out, finagle, fish out, get away, mulct, pry, rip out, rout up, rummage out, shake down, slip away, tap, worm), измамвам чрез ласкателство, издрънквам (babble, plump, scrounge, wangle). (various references)

Chinese 

�"�骗 (Coax, Coaxed, Coaxing, wangle, wangling, Wheedled, Wheedling). (various references)

Czech

obelstít (have), lichotit (Blandish, butter up, flatter). (various references)

Farsi 

گول زدن (Bamboozle, Beguile, Cajole, Cheat, Con, Deceive, Defraud, Doodle, Dupe, Entrap, Fool, Gaff, Gouge, Gull, Gum, Gyp, Hoax, Hustle, Jockey, Outwit, Rogue, Swindle), خرکردن , ریشخندکردن (Bamboozle, Blarney, Cajole, Coax, Lout). (various references)

French

cajoler, câliner. (various references)

German

beschwatzen (cajole, cajolery, chat about, talk into, talk over), abbetteln (wheedle out), überreden (cajole, coax, convince, persuade, talk into, talk round, to persuade, to persuade (of). (various references)

Greek 

καλοπιάνω (cajole, coax, fawn, lick his boots), καλοπιάζω. (various references)

Hebrew 

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

Hungarian

hízelkedéssel rávesz, hízeleg valakinek (adulate, soft soap). (various references)

Indonesian

menggaitkan (pluck), gait (purloin, steal, swipe). (various references)

Italian

ottenere con lusinghe, lusingarsi, allettare (allure, attract, cajole, charm, entice, lure, tempt), adulare (adulate, curry, fawn, flatter, soft soap). (various references)

Manx

breigey (allure, beguile, blandish, cajole, cajolery, coax, decoy, entice, enticement, inveigle, inveiglement, lure, persuade, seduce, seduction). (various references)

Pig Latin

eedlewhay.(various references)

Portuguese

lisonjear (beslobber, bespatter, blandish, butter, butter up, cajole, coax, cog, flatter, jolly, lackey, lacquey, palaver, soft-soap), adular (adulate, blandish, blarney, butter, butter up, cajole, fawn, flatter, palaver, soft-soap). (various references)

Romanian

linguşi (blandish, butter, cajole, coax, flannel, flatter, jolly, palaver, toady), flata (flatter). (various references)

Russian 

выманивать лестью, выпрашивать (beg, importune, wangle), задобрить (cajole, coax), подольщаться. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

izmamiti (elicit, entice, scrounge, tap, wangle, winkle out), iskamčiti. (various references)

Spanish

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

Swedish

locka (allure, appeal to, bait, beguile, call, curl, entice, entire, inveigle, lead on, lure, tantalise, tantalize, tempt, woo), lisma (fawn, flatter), lirka med, förleda (betray, delude, entice, entrap, lead on, mislead, seduce, tempt). (various references)

Turkish

yaltaklanmak (adulate, beslaver, blandish, blarney, bow and scrape, court, cringe, curry favor with smb., fawn, grovel, hustle, lick smb.'s boots, play to, slaver, soap down, toady, truckle), tatlı sözlerle kandırmak (coax, sweet talk), kandırmak (argue, bait, bamboozle, befool, beguile, cheat, con, cozen, deceive, delude, diddle, dish, dissuade, dupe, entice, fast-talk, finagle, flimflam, fool, gammon, get round, gyp, hornswoggle, induce, intrigue, inveigle, jockey, jolly, kid, lead on, lie, persuade, play with, put across, put over, rope in, sell smb. a pup, serve a trick, spoof, stall off, stick, string, string along, stuff smb., take in, trick), ikna etmek (argue, argue smb. into smth., assure, bring, bring over, bring round, cajole, 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, win, win smb. round), dil dökmek (blandish, coax, sweet talk). (various references)

Ukrainian

ублажати (soothe), лестощі (adulation, cajolement, cajolery, flattery, oil, palaver, sugar, sugarplum, sycophancy), підлещуватися (adulate, crouch, curry favor, curry favour, flatter, palaver), догідливість (compliance, oiliness, suppleness). (various references)

Welsh

ffrawddunio (crave). (various references)

lacta, lactabant, lactaberis, lactabo, lactans, lactantem, lactantes, lactantibus, lactantis, lactantium, lactaret, lactat, lactatum, lactatus, lactaverint, lactaverunt, lactavit, lacto, palpabunt, palpare, palpate, palpatio, palpato, palpavimus, palpes. (various references)

wedeln. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "wheedle": wheedled, wheedler, wheedlers, wheedles. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Wheedle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: haedle, heedle, Pheidole, weedle, wehele, wheed, wheelen, whelle, Whyld. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: wheeled.

-1 letter: heeled.

-2 letters: hewed, wedel, wheel.

-3 letters: dele, heed, heel, held, lewd, weed, weel, weld, whee.

-4 letters: dee, del, dew, edh, eel, eld, ewe, hew, led, lee, wed, wee.

-5 letters: de, ed, eh, el, he, we.

+1 letter: wheedled, wheedler, wheedles, wheepled.

+2 letters: enwheeled, wheedlers.

+3 letters: pinwheeled.

+4 letters: cartwheeled, freewheeled, overwhelmed, swellheaded, thimbleweed.

+5 letters: thimbleweeds, underwhelmed, wholehearted.