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Webster 1828 Edition
Wheedling
WHEEDLING
,ppr.
WHEEDLING
,Noun.
Definition 2024
wheedling
wheedling
English
Verb
wheedling
- present participle of wheedle
Adjective
wheedling (comparative more wheedling, superlative most wheedling)
- coaxing, aiming to persuade.
- 1888, Howard Pyle, Otto of the Silver Hand, ch. 9
- 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."
- 1888, Howard Pyle, Otto of the Silver Hand, ch. 9
Noun
wheedling (plural wheedlings)
- The act of one who wheedles.