blandish

Definitions


[ˈblandɪʃ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- coax (someone) with kind words or flattery
(e.g: I was blandishing her with imprudences to get her off the subject)


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Origin:
Middle English: from Old French blandiss-, lengthened stem of blandir, from Latin blandiri, from blandus ‘soft, smooth’




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