wheedle

wheedle

wheedle (third-person singular simple present wheedles, present participle wheedling, simple past and past participle wheedled) (transitive) and (intransitive)

1. To cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery.
   • 1977, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (""The Wife of Baths Tale""), Penguin Classics, p. 290:

     Though he had beaten me in every bone / He still could wheedle me to love.

   Id like one of those, too, if you can wheedle him into telling you where he got it.

2. To obtain something by guile or trickery.

allettare

Altri significati:

To cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery.

To obtain something by guile or trickery.

Traduzione 'veloce'

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