Reverse Dictionary: PERSUADE

ADJECTIVES
► ADHORTATORY persuading or urging to a course; inciting → 1660 obs.
► HAMPER-LOGGED persuaded; overborne → 1893 Eng. dial.
► INBEARING persuasive, eloquent, impressive → 1694 Sc. obs.
► MEDICINE persuasive → L19 US sl.
► PARAENETICAL advisory, hortatory; apt to persuade, admonishing → 1598
► PERSUASORY persuasive → 1576
► PROTREPTICAL adapted to persuade; hortatory, persuasive → 1667-8 obs.
► SILVER eloquent, persuasive, sweet-spoken → 1594
► SOAPY insincere in manner; ingratiating, sycophantic, flattering or persuasive → 1854 sl.
► SUADIBLE that may be easily persuaded → 1382 obs.
► SUASIBLE capable of being persuaded; that is easily persuaded → 1582
► SUASIVE having or exercising the power of persuading or urging → 1601
► SUASORIAN tending to persuade; persuasive → 1646 obs.
► SUASORY tending to persuade; persuasive → 1576

NOUNS
► ADHORTATION encouragement, persuasion, incitement → 1536 obs.
► ARM-TWISTING powerful persuasion → colloq.
► BULL CON a concerted attempt at flattery, deception, or persuasion → 1896 US sl.
► CORN SWEAT an effort by cajolement and insistence to persuade somebody to your way of thinking → 1975 Amer. dial.
► EDGEMENT incitement, urging, persuasion → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GUM-GREASE sweet talk, friendly persuasion → 1960 Amer. dial.
► INCREED internal persuasion → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PERSUASE persuasion → 1599 obs.
► SNOW JOB an act of deception; a lie; an excuse; strong and persistent persuasion, esp. in a dubious cause → 1940s US sl.
► SOFT SOAP flattering, persuasive, or cajoling talk; insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery; nonsense → 1830 colloq., orig. US
► STEM-WINDING strong persuasion; powerful rhetoric → 1970s US sl.
► SUADA persuasiveness; persuasive eloquence → 1592 obs.
► SUASION the act or fact of exhorting or urging; persuasion → c1374
► SUASIVE a persuasive speech, motive or influence → 1670
► SUASORINESS aptness to persuade → 1727
► SUASORY a persuasive speech, motive or influence → 1625 obs.
► TIGHTING persuading, enticement → c1000 obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► ARM-TWISTER someone who uses strong persuasion → Amer. sl.
► BLAGGER a person who seeks to obtain or achieve something by persuasive talk or plausible deception; a bluffer, a scrounger, a cadger; a smooth talker, a persuasive person → 1963 Brit. sl.
► BUTTERMOUTH a person who disarms and persuades others through the artful, ingratiating, or disingenuous use of language → 1865
► COUSIN KISS-THEM-ALL a person who persuades or cajoles others by means of attentiveness or flattery; a sweet-talker → 1893 Eng. dial. obs.
► EASY MARK someone or something overcome, mastered, or persuaded without difficulty; a gullible person; anything achieved with ease → 1845 sl.
► PERSUADEND a person who is to be persuaded → 1865
► PUSH-OVER a gullible person; a dupe; one who is easily persuaded, outwitted, or overpowered → 1907 colloq., orig. US
► SPRUIKER a person who shouts to attract customers; one who tries to persuade people to buy something, use a service, etc., often in a dishonest or exaggerated way; a tout → 1893  Aust. & NZ sl.

PHRASES
► HE COULD SELL BOOMERANGS TO THE ABORIGINALS ► HE COULD SELL BOOMERANGS TO THE BLACKS he is very persuasive → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► I’D HAVE DONE IT FOR A FARTHING it would have taken very little persuasion to make me do it → L19 sl.

VERBS
► ARGUFY to persuade by argument → 1853 Amer. dial.
► AWELD to exert an influence over or shape the actions of a person; to win someone over; to prevail upon, to persuade → c1225 obs.
► BAISE to persuade, to coax → 1825 Sc. obs.
► BLARNEY to flatter; to deceive with insincere or flattering talk, to persuade; to wheedle → 1803
► COP to take in, to persuade → L19 sl.
► FANNY to deceive or persuade by glib talk → 1938 UK sl.
► FANNY ON to talk with the intention to persuade or deceive → 1949 UK sl.
► FEFT to persuade or endeavour to persuade → 1684 Eng. dial. obs.
► FINAGLE to get or achieve by trickery, craftiness, or persuasion; to wangle → 1927 US sl.
► FINNEGAN to cozen, to persuade artfully → 1968 Amer. dial.
► GAG to persuade, to boost, to promote → L19 sl.
► GAGA to persuade, to ‘sweet talk’ → 1990s sl.
► GAMMON to talk plausibly or persuasively → 1789 colloq.
► HAG to incite, to urge; to try to persuade → 1587 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► HOLD SOMEONE’S FEET TO THE FIRE to subject someone to strong and painful persuasion; to use maximum pressure → 1980s US sl.
► HOOK to snare, to entice, or to swindle a victim; to persuade with deception or flattery; to trick; to defraud → c1730 Amer. sl.
► LEAN ON to pressurize, to persuade, possibly with violence or threats of violence, to threaten with force ..1920s sl., orig. US
► MACK to lie or exaggerate in order to deceive, exploit, or influence someone; to convince or persuade in a deceptive way → 1975 African-American sl.
► OIL to persuade in some deceitful manner; to bribe → 1635
► OPPUGN to prevail upon, to win over, to persuade → 1596 obs.
► PALAVER to persuade by talking → 1767
► PLASTER to persuade → 1960s Irish sl.
► RAP to persuade; to trick out of → 1940s US sl.
► RIB UP to persuade → 1945 US Western usage (Bk.)
► SALVE OVER to talk over or persuade by smooth speech → 1862 colloq.
► SIREN to allure, to entice, to persuade → 1690
► SUADE to persuade → 1531 now rare or Eng. dial.
► SWEET-TALK to flatter; to deceive with insincere or flattering talk; to cajole, to persuade → 1936 sl., orig. & chiefly US
► TEW to annoy. to vex; to tease, to importune, to pester; to urge, to persuade → 1781 Eng. dial.
► THROW THE HOOKS to persuade victims with deception or flattery → 1887 Amer. criminals’ sl.
► TILL to draw, to attract, to persuade; to entice, to allure, to coax; to win over → a1225 obs.
► WORK to exert one’s charm, power, persuasiveness, etc., esp. on an audience; to manipulate → 1851 Amer. sl.