CAJOLE, CAJOLERY, CAJOLING
NOUNS
1607 — GULLAGE deception, cajolery → obs.
1830 — SOFT SOAP cajoling, flattering, or persuasive talk; insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery → colloq., orig. US
1854 — SOAP cajolement; flattery → Amer. sl.
1864 — SALVE cajolery, praise, flattery
1898 — CARNEY cajolery, flattery → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 — DAUBERY cajolery, flattery → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 — DAUBMENT cajolery, flattery → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 — DAUBY-SAUBY cajolery, flattery → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 — SAUBY-DAUBY cajolery, excessive flattery → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — MOIDER cajolery, blarney → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1926 — BLANNY cajolery, ingratiating or flattering speech → Amer. dial.
NOUNS, PERSON
1788 — PALAVERER a cajoling, wheedling, or flattering person; an insincere (if plausible) speaker
VERBS
1380 — GLAVER to cajole, to coax; to deceive with flattery; to wheedle; to talk plausibly and deceitfully → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1480 — GLOTHER to cajole, to flatter; to use flattering terms → obs.
1623 — SUPPARASITE to cajole, to flatter; to act the parasite → obs.
1657 — PALP to cajole, to speak fair to, to flatter
1685 — FUN to cheat or cajole a person out of something; to deceive, to trick
1688 — DWEEDLE to cajole, to wheedle → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1715 — TWEEDLE to entice by or as by music; to wheedle, to cajole
1721 — CAST SALT ON ANYONE’S TAIL to cajole, to cajole; to get the better of → Sc.
1745 — VEIGLE to cajole, to inveigle, to beguile → obs. exc. Eng. dial
1761 — HUMBUG to cajole into doing something; to cheat out of something
1790 — BEFLUM to deceive by cajoling language, to flatter, to humbug → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1811 — CARNEY → CARNY to cajole, to coax, to flatter; to act in a wheedling or coaxing manner → Eng. dial. & colloq.
1824 — FILL IN MY LUG to cajole, to flatter → Sc.
1836 — LAY SALT ON ONE’S TAIL to cajole, to get the better of → Sc.
1848 — SAWDER UP to cajole, to flatter → Ireland
1851 — CAHOOLE to cajole → US students’ sl.
1853 — SOAP to cajole and flatter; to deceive with insincere or flattering talk → sl.
1856 — HONEY-FUGGLE to cajole, to wheedle, to flatter → Amer. dial.
1856 — SALVE to cajole, to flatter; to take in by fair speech; to cozen → Eng. dial.
1866 — BUZZ to chat with, esp. in a cajoling or flirtatious manner → Amer. sl.
1866 — VANQUISH to cajole, to deceive, to get round a person → Sc.
1873 — FALSE to cajole, to flatter, to coax, to wheedle → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1884 — CALLIFUDGE to cajole, to flatter; to cheat, to deceive → Eng. dial.
1884 — CALLIFUGLE to cajole, to flatter; to cheat, to deceive → Eng. dial.
1888 — BLANDANDER to cajole, to tempt by blandishment → colloq.
1911 — BLAFLUM to cajole, to coax; to deceive → Sc. (Bk.)
1936 — SWEET-TALK to flatter; to deceive with insincere or flattering talk; to cajole, to persuade → sl., orig. & chiefly US
1940 — SUCK ASS to curry favour; to flatter and cajole → US sl.
1960 — LARCENY to attempt to cajole with insincere flattery → US criminals’ sl.