OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 21129

wheedle

/ˈʍiː.dəl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
camelar • engatusar
To cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery.
I’d like one of those, too, if you can wheedle him into telling you where he got it.
[…]whether, after preventing her from being the wife of Sir Walter, he may not be wheedled and caressed at last into making her the wife of Sir William.