LekhoriLekhoriTo wheedle or persuade (a person, organisation, animal etc.) gradually or by use of flattery to do something.
She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.
A simpleton; a dupe.
Go, you're a brainless Coax, a Toy, a Fop, I'll go no farther than your Name, Sir Gregory
Clipping of coaxial cable.
Clipping of coaxial.
Originally (1586) in the slang phrase to make a coax of, from earlier noun coax, cox, cokes "fool, simpleton", itself of obscure origin, perhaps related to cock (“male bird, pert boy”). The modern spe...
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