bean-soupery

In one who depends on gain, honour and fame, who has evil wishes, who is troubled by wishes: that which to others is welcoming talk, insinuating talk, entertaining talk, laudatory talk, flattering talk, inferential talk, repeated inferential talk, coaxing talk, repeated coaxing talk, constant pleasant talk, servility (in talking), bean soupery (in talking), dandling (behaviour).

1969, Paṭhamakyaw Ashin Thiṭṭila, transl., The Book of Analysis, London: Pali Text Society, page 459

This includes ‘bean soupery,’ little words that are hints for robes and other gifts, which, like harsh words and criticism, signifies envy, an unbecoming attachment of worldly things.

1995, Christine E. Gray, “Buddhism as a language of images, transtextuality as a language of power”, in Word & Image, volume 11, number 3, →DOI

Here someone makes a livelihood by gifts of bamboos, or by gifts of leaves, or by gifts of flowers, fruits, bathing powder, and tooth sticks, or by flattery, or by bean-soupery, or by fondling, or by going on errands on foot, or by one or other of the sorts of wrong livelihood condemned by the Buddhas—this is called improper conduct.

2010, Buddhaghosa, “Description of Virtue”, in The Path of Purification (Visuddhimagga), page 19