carnying

Verb

carny (third-person singular simple present carnies, present participle carnying, simple past and past participle carnied)

1. (dialectal) To cajole, wheedle, or coax.
   • The crossing at St. Martin’s Church was mine fust of all; and when the other lads come to it I didn’t take no heed of ’em—only for that I’d have been a bright boy by now, but they carnied me over like; for when I tried to turn ’em off they’d say, in a carnying way, ‘Oh, let us stay on,’ so I never...1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861

   Synonyms:

   butter up, inveigle, sweet-talk, blandander, blandish, cajole, sweeten, fast-talk, canoodle, coax

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