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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wheedle \Whee"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wheedled}; p. pr & vb
n. {Wheedling}.] [Cf. G. wedeln to wag with the tail, as a
dog, wedel a fan, tail, brush, OHG. wadal; akin to G. wehen
to blow, and E. wind, n.]
1. To entice by soft words to cajole; to flatter; to coax.
The unlucky art of wheedling fools. --Dryden.
And wheedle a world that loves him not --Tennyson.
2. To grain, or get away by flattery.
A deed of settlement of the best part of her estate,
which I wheedled out of her --Congreve.
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