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wheedle
"to influence by flattery," 1661, perhaps connected with O.E.
wędlian
"to beg" (from
wędl
"poverty"), or borrowed by Eng. soldiers in the 17c. German wars from Ger.
wedeln
"wag the tail," hence "fawn, flatter" (cf.
adulation
).
