Meanings
nounwheedler (plural wheedlers)
plural wheedlers
- One who wheedles; a sweet talker.
Then the landlady began telling him this story, that she had heard from Theodore, Monsieur Guillaumin's servant, and although she destested Tellier, she blamed Lheureux. He was “a wheedler, a sneak.”
1886, Gustave Flaubert, chapter VIII, in Eleanor Marx-Aveling, transl., Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners […], London: Vizetelly & Co., […], →OCLC, part II, pages 148–149
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Origin
Translations
Polish bałamut, bałamutnik
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