Thesaurus:coax
English
Verb
(transitive)
Sense: to persuade someone gradually by flattery or promises
Synonyms
- blandander (dated, Ireland)
- blandish
- butter up (figurative)
- cajole
- fast-talk
- canoodle (figurative)
- carny (dialect)
- coax
- collogue
- croodle (obsolete, UK, dialect)
- engle (obsolete)
- fleech (Scotland)
- honey around (figurative)
- honey up (dated, figurative)
- hum [⇒ thesaurus] (dated, UK, slang)
- ingle (obsolete)
- inveigle
- soap (dated, slang)
- soft-sawder (idiomatic)
- soft-soap (idiomatic)
- stroke (US, figurative)
- sweet-talk (idiomatic)
- tweedle (obsolete)
- twist
- wheedle
- whilly (archaic, Scotland)
- word [⇒ thesaurus] (obsolete)
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Further reading
- “615. motive” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “933. flattery” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “coax” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.