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Definition of Wheedles

Wheedle
Wheedle Whee"dle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wheedled; p. pr. & vb. n. Wheedling.] [Cf. G. wedeln to wag with the tail, as a dog, wedel a fan, tail, brush, OHG. wadal; akin to G. wehen to blow, and E. wind, n.] 1. To entice by soft words; to cajole; to flatter; to coax. The unlucky art of wheedling fools. --Dryden. And wheedle a world that loves him not. --Tennyson. 2. To grain, or get away, by flattery. A deed of settlement of the best part of her estate, which I wheedled out of her. --Congreve.
Wheedle
Wheedle Whee"dle, v. i. To flatter; to coax; to cajole.

Meaning of Wheedles from wikipedia

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- to want him to win. Patricia Highsmith does a fine job of ensuring he wheedles his way into our sympathies." Book magazine ranked Ripley on its list of...
- This article contains brief biographies for prominent characters from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. More central characters' biographies are also...
- the odds, Spielberg makes something genuinely exciting of the backstage wheedling." It was announced on May 2, 2013, that Spielberg would direct American...
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- author Stephen Cosgrove's children's book Wheedle on the Needle imagined a furry creature called the Wheedle who lived on top of the Space Needle and caused...
- "implausibly exact numbers" such as "bullhorn acacia ant at 1.8" were "wheedled out of him" by Outside magazine for an article it published in 1996. In...
- evening dress who crooned operatic airs with ease and effect, and afterward wheedled members of the audience into buying her portrait postcards. Pepi Littmnn's...
- each progressively lower. The second, for D clarinet, is crafty and wheedling, suggesting a trickster doing what he does best. Till Eulenspiegel's Merry...