wheedle

vt. 以甜言蜜语诱惑, 用甜言蜜语骗 vi. 用甜言蜜语哄骗

发音

US /ˈʍiː.dəl/

词形变化

wheedles 复数 wheedled wheedles 三单 wheedles wheedling wheedling 现在分词 wheedled 过去式 wheedled 过去分词

别名

weedle

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A coaxing person.

    古体
v.
  1. 1.

    To cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery.

    诱哄

    及物/不及物

    I’d like one of those, too, if you can wheedle him into telling you where he got it.

  2. 2.

    To obtain by flattery, guile, or trickery.

    及物

词汇关系

动词

同义词 6

coax sweet-talk blarney cajole inveigle palaver

上位词 1

persuade

下位词 4

bully swagger softsoap browbeat

词源

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”). Alternatively , borrowed from German wedeln (“to wag one's tail”), from Middle High German wedelen, a byform of Middle High German wadelen (“to wander, waver, wave, whip, stroke, flutter”), from Old High German wādalōn (“to wander, roam, rove”). In this case, it may be a doublet of waddle, or an independently formed etymological equivalent. The ⟨wh⟩ spelling (reflecting pronunciations with /ʍ/) is apparently unetymological.

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