Wheedle vs Whee - What's the difference?
wheedle | whee |
To cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery.
* 1977 , ("The Wife of Bath's Tale"), Penguin Classics, p. 290:
To obtain by flattery, guile, or trickery.
* Congreve
(childish) An expression of pleasure or enjoyment.
* 2001 , Ricardo L Garcia, Coal camp days: a boy's remembrance?
* 2009 , Phil and Kaja Foglio, Girl Genius, Volume 9 ,
As a verb wheedle
is to cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery.As an interjection whee is
(childish) an expression of pleasure or enjoyment.wheedle
English
Verb
and (intransitive)- Though he had beaten me in every bone / He still could wheedle me to love.
- I'd like one of those, too, if you can wheedle him into telling you where he got it.
- A deed of settlement of the best part of her estate, which I wheedled out of her.
Anagrams
*whee
English
Interjection
(en interjection)- She twisted the rubber band extra tight. Sure enough, the tractor spun off much faster. Whee ! She really liked to see it go fast on the living room floor.
p. 81:
- It'll be a secret! Whee !
