Wheedler vs Wheedles - What's the difference?
wheedler | wheedles |
(wheedle)
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
As a noun wheedler
is one who wheedles.As a verb wheedles is
(wheedle).wheedles
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(head)wheedle
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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.