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noun
blarney  n.  Smooth, wheedling talk; flattery. (Colloq.)
Blarney stone, a stone in Blarney castle, Ireland (built in 1446), said to make those who kiss it proficient in the use of blarney. Note: The origin of the stone is uncertain. In order to kiss the Blarney stone, which is located in the side of the castle, one must be held upside-down by the feet and lowered into the proper position from an opening in an overhang in the parapet. It is an experience eschewed by some tourists.



verb
Blarney  v. t.  (past & past part. blarneyed; pres. part. blarneying)  To influence by blarney; to wheedle with smooth talk; to make or accomplish by blarney. "Blarneyed the landlord." "Had blarneyed his way from Long Island."






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"Blarney" Quotes from Famous Books



... her arms and raised her head. All her share of the blarney of Ireland began to roll from the mellow tip of ...
— Her Father's Daughter • Gene Stratton-Porter

... littered down," said Rosamond. "That's my first task in fresh quarters, banishing some things and upsetting the rest, and strewing our own about judiciously. There are the inevitable wax-flowers. I have regular blarney about their being so lovely, that it would just go to my heart to expose them ...
— The Three Brides • Charlotte M. Yonge

... pleasant drive from Cork is Blarney Castle—a noble ruin, towering above a beautiful little lake, all surrounded by delightful, though neglected grounds—made famous by an old comic song, called ...
— Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children • Grace Greenwood

... blandiloquence[obs3]; cajolery; fawning, wheedling &c.v.; captation[obs3], coquetry, obsequiousness, sycophancy, flunkeyism[obs3], toadeating[obs3], tuft-hunting; snobbishness. incense, honeyed words, flummery; bunkum, buncombe; blarney, placebo, butter; soft soap, soft sawder[obs3]; rose water. voice of the charmer, mouth honor; lip homage; euphemism; unctuousness &c. adj. V. flatter, praise to the skies, puff; wheedle, cajole, glaver[obs3], ...
— Roget's Thesaurus

... fingers are extremely strong for his age—but, adding that babies will catch at whatever is very bright and beautiful, such as gold and jewels and Mr. Poole's eyes, administers to the wounded orb so soothing a lotion of pity and admiration that Poole growls out quite mildly: "Nonsense, blarney—by the by, I did not say this morning that you should ...
— What Will He Do With It, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton


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