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Blarney

noun
1.
Flattery designed to gain favor.  Synonyms: coaxing, soft soap, sweet talk.



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"Blarney" Quotes from Famous Books



... sounded down the hall. "Don't leave me alone with her. She'll blarney me into consenting to blue-and-pink rosebud paper ...
— Roast Beef, Medium • Edna Ferber

... in the gyarden, sor, and soother and blarney them over a bit. It'll kim aisier, thin, to go in and fetch a bit and sup from the panthry, and not be so suddint like. They're such desayving thayves of the world, ...
— The Rajah of Dah • George Manville Fenn

... honest man believe that this same man, captain Johnson, who had been, as Paddy says, "sticking the blarney into me at that rate," could have been such a scoundrel as to turn about the very next minute, and try all in his power to trick me out of my vagrants. It is, however, too true to be doubted; for having purposely delayed dinner till it was late, he then ...
— The Life of General Francis Marion • Mason Locke Weems

... O'Shonnosey the member for Blarney, when he votes for smashing in the porter's lodges of that Protestant institution, and talks of Toleration and Equal Rights, and calls the Duke of Tuscany a broth of a boy, and a light to illumine heretical ...
— Nature and Human Nature • Thomas Chandler Haliburton

... 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 "The ...
— Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children • Grace Greenwood

... touched their caps to Houston with a sort of sullen civility, and greeted his companions with rough jests, which Jack received with his usual taciturn manner, but to which Van Dorn, from underneath his disguise, responded with bits of Irish blarney and wit, which greatly ...
— The Award of Justice - Told in the Rockies • A. Maynard Barbour

... work" in the bowels of the earth changed him so? The idea was bound to be disconcerting to one who had been a favourite of the ladies! Did he talk like it?—he who had been "kissing the Blarney-stone!" The marshal had said he was "long-winded!" Well, to be sure, he had talked a lot; but what could the man expect—having shut him up in jail for two nights and a day, with only his grievances to brood over! Was that the way ...
— King Coal - A Novel • Upton Sinclair



Words linked to "Blarney" :   browbeat, coax, soft-soap, bully, swagger, sweet talk, soft soap, persuade, flattery



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