COAX, COAXED, COAXING
ADJECTIVES
► CARNEYING in a coaxing, wheedling, or insinuating manner → 1851 colloq.
► ELOZABLE able to be coaxed or wheedled; readily influenced by flattery → 1537 obs.
► MIRDING coaxing, fawning → 1868 Sc.
► TEELIE coaxing, enticing, encouraging, inducing → 1866 Sc.
NOUNS
► FAGE a coaxing or deceiving; a deceit, fiction → 1420 obs.
► FAIR WEATHER a coaxing, flattery → 1923 Sc.
► MIRD a coaxing, flattery → 1865 Sc.
► TICE a treating in a coaxing manner; kind treatment → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
NOUNS – PERSON
► FLATTERCAP a coaxing or wheedling child who tries to gain their own little ends by flattery → 1681 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► LOLL-POOP a coaxing, wheedling child → 19C Eng. dial.
► LOLLYPOT a coaxing, wheedling child → 19C Eng. dial.
► SLEWDER ► SLUDER a wheedling, coaxing fellow → 1910 Ireland (Bk.)
VERBS
► ACCOY to coax or soothe (the alarmed or shy), to tame, to silence, to daunt (the forward or bold) → c1350 obs.
► BAISE to coax, to persuade → 1825 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► BLAFLUM to coax, to cajole; to deceive → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BLAW to coax, to wheedle, to whisper in the ear, to flatter → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► CADDLE ► CADEL ► CADLE to coax, to pet, to fondle, to coddle → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CANOODLE to coax → 1891 sl. (Bk.)
► CANT to coax, to wheedle → 1877 Eng. dial.
► CARNEY ► CARNY to coax, to wheedle, to cajole, to flatter → 1811 Eng. dial. & colloq.
► CHUM to coax, to entice, to wheedle → 1975 Amer. dial.
► COACH to coax → 1967 Amer. dial.
► COLLOGUE to coax, to wheedle, to coax → 1660 obs.
► COME AROUND to coax, to entice → 1905 Amer. dial.
► CRUDLE to coax, fawn, or cringe; to shrink or cower with cold, fear, or pain → 1891 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CUDDLE OUT OF to coax or wheedle out of → 1808
► CUITTLE to wheedle, to coax → 1565 Sc.
► DAUNSEL to coax, to caress, to make much of → 1362 obs.
► DAWL to coax, to fondle, to stroke gently with the hand → 1879 Eng. dial.
► FAGE to coax, to flatter; to toady; to beguile, to soothe → c1340 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► FAIZLE to coax, to flatter → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► FALSE to coax, to wheedle, to cajole, to flatter → 1873 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► FLEECH to coax, to wheedle, to flatter → 1938 Amer. dial.
► FLOOSTER to coax, to flatter, to wheedle; to fondle, to make much of → 1890 Ireland
► GET ROUND A MAN’S NECK-HOLE to coax and wheedle for a favour → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GLAVER to coax, to cajole, to flatter, to deceive with flattery; to wheedle; to talk plausibly and deceitfully → 1380 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► MEE-MAW to coax, to wheedle, to caress in a wheedling manner → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MIRD to coax, to make amorous advances; to fawn upon one → 1829 Sc.
► PADDISH to coax → 1891 Eng. dial.
► PEACH AWAY ► PEECH AWAY to coax, to entice → 1903 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► STROKE THE EARS to coax, to flatter → a1668 obs.
► TEAL ► TEELY to coax, to entice, to inveigle by flattery; to wheedle something from or out of a person → 1866 Sc.
► TICE to coax, to wheedle; to entice; to tempt, to allure, to attract → c1275 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
► TICKLE THE EARS to coax, to flatter; to gratify with agreeable sounds → 1897 (Bk.)
► TIDDLE to coax, to entice → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TILL to coax, to entice, to allure; to draw, to attract, to persuade; to win over → a1225 obs.
► TISE to coax, to wheedle; to entice; to tempt, to allure, to attract → 1860 Sc.