Wheedle
- Slava
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Wheedle
I rather like this word. It fits in so nicely with words like smarmy. "That smarmy used-car salesman tried to wheedle me into buying an ancient Pinto."
Life is like playing chess with chessmen who each have thoughts and feelings and motives of their own.
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Re: Wheedle
Good suggestion, nice word.
Would you rather be schmoozed or wheedled (at?) by the hypothetical salesman? Personally I'm always up for a bit bit of schmoozing, thinking there may be a beverage or meal in it, wheedling may work but is generally annoying.
Would you rather be schmoozed or wheedled (at?) by the hypothetical salesman? Personally I'm always up for a bit bit of schmoozing, thinking there may be a beverage or meal in it, wheedling may work but is generally annoying.
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Re: Wheedle
I agree that schmoozing does come off as a nicer concept. I feel it's more used in the sense of "chat up" a superior for personal gain.
Schmooze would also be a good Good Word. We haven't done it yet. It's fairly simple in etymological terms, but it is both transitive and intransitive, and can be a noun, too. An Americanism from the last years of the 19th century, it comes from Yiddish for gossip or idle conversation.
That's chat up in the American sense, by the way.
Schmooze would also be a good Good Word. We haven't done it yet. It's fairly simple in etymological terms, but it is both transitive and intransitive, and can be a noun, too. An Americanism from the last years of the 19th century, it comes from Yiddish for gossip or idle conversation.
That's chat up in the American sense, by the way.
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