LekhoriLekhoriTo cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery.
I’d like one of those, too, if you can wheedle him into telling you where he got it.
To obtain by flattery, guile, or trickery.
If the worſt come to the worſt,—I'll turn my Wife to Graſs—I already have a deed of Settlement of the beſt part of her Eſtate; which I wheadl'd out of her; [...]
A coaxing person.
Uncertain. Perhaps continuing Middle English wedlen (“to beg, ask for alms”), from Old English wǣdlian (“to be poor, be needy, be in want, beg”), from Proto-Germanic *wēþlōną (“to be in need”). Altern...
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