blandander

Probably an altered from of blandish, possibly blending with philander.^[1] Compare blarney.^[2]

blandander (third-person singular simple present blandanders, present participle blandandering, simple past and past participle blandandered)

1. (Ireland, dated) To flatter or cajole.

   Synonyms: butter up, sweet-talk; see also Thesaurus:flatter, Thesaurus:coax

   • 1898 June 18, James Workman, “The Rebel Spy”, in Chambers's Journal, volume I (sixth series), number 24, London; Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, Limited, page 463, column 1:

     'Norah dear,' says I, 'there's a regiment of Southerners at Mackenzie's farm in the wood. If you love Tom you'll run like the wind and bring them here as quick as the fine legs God gave you will carry you. I'll thry to blandander these fellows till you come back; but remember every minute's worth its weight in gold, and Tom's life hangs on a thread.'

   • 1922 June 7, “The Foot of Friday”, in Punch, volume CLXII, London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co., Ltd., column 1:

     But he blandandered me and, like a goat, / I paid the entry and he put me down.

   • 1926 October 9, “Tell Me a Book to Read”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 87, column 2:

     That Last Infirmity, by Charles Brackett (John Day). Lightly and amiably satirical: a snob makes a Frankenstein's monster of a blandandering Irish widow.

   • 1937, Bruno Frank, translated by James Bridie [pseudonym; Osborne Henry Mavor], Storm in a Teacup, London; New York, N.Y.; Toronto, Ont.: Samuel French, translation of Sturm im Wasserglas, page 12:

     Och, Mrs. Flanagan this, or Mrs. Flanagan that, you can blandander me till you're blue in the face, but it's not meself I have in mind...it's Patsy.

   • 1947, Robert Briffault, New Life of Mr. Martin, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 32:

     "Ah! More like yourself! That's right. There's a drop yet, Gentle," Bark blandandered, holding up the dandy for the heel.