cajole

Verb

Synonyms: wheedle palaver blarney coax sweet-talk inveigle

WordNet 3.0

Verb (1)

influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering“He palavered her into going along”Synonyms: wheedle palaver blarney coax sweet-talk inveigle

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Cajole \Ca*jole"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cajoled; p. pr. & vb. n. Cajoling.] [F. cajoler, orig., to chatter like a bird in a cage, to sing; hence, to amuse with idle talk, to flatter, from the source of OF. goale, jaiole, F. ge[^o]le, dim. of cage a cage. See Cage, Jail.] To deceive with flattery or fair words; to wheedle. [1913 Webster]

I am not about to cajole or flatter you into a reception of my views. --F. W. Robertson.

Syn: To flatter; wheedle; delude; coax; entrap. [1913 Webster]

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

CAJOLE

<language> (Chris And John's Own LanguagE) A dataflow language developed by Chris Hankin <clh@doc.ic.ac.uk> and John Sharp at Westfield College.

["The Data Flow Programming Language CAJOLE: An Informal Introduction", C.L. Hankin et al, SIGPLAN Notices 16(7):35-44 (Jul 1981)].

(1994-11-08)