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Wheedling vs Weedling - What's the difference?

wheedling | weedling |

As nouns the difference between wheedling and weedling

is that wheedling is the act of one who wheedles while weedling is a small weed.

As a verb wheedling

is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective wheedling

is coaxing, aiming to persuade.

wheedling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • coaxing, aiming to persuade.
  • * 1888 , Howard Pyle, Otto of the Silver Hand ,
    • Then, in a soft, wheedling voice, "Canst thou not let me in, my little bird? Sure there are other lasses besides thyself who would like to trade with a poor peddler who has travelled all the way from Gruenstadt just to please the pretty ones of Trutz-Drachen."

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who wheedles.

    • weedling

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small weed.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1907, author=Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams, title=The Mystery, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The vegetation was withered to pallid rags: even the tiniest weedling in the rock crevices had been poisoned by the devastating blast. }}
  • * 2009 , Jean Coleman, I Met Him in My Overalls (page 72)
    • In early spring, it takes time and scrutiny to decipher the newly emerging weedlings from my precious, rising seedlings.