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sweet-talking

sweet-talking is the present participle and gerund of sweet-talk.

Meaning of sweet-talk

Verb

sweet-talk (third-person singular simple present sweet-talks, present participle sweet-talking, simple past and past participle sweet-talked)

  1. (idiomatic, informal, transitive) To influence or urge by gentle caressing or flattering.
    • His grin faded a little. "How'd you do it? Sweet-talk one of the guards into letting you in at the head of the line?"1954 November, Mari Wolf, “The Very Secret Agent”, in If

Questions about sweet-talking

What is sweet-talking the present participle and gerund of?
Sweet-talking is the present participle and gerund of sweet-talk.

Words near sweet-talking in the dictionary

  1. sweet-stuff
  2. sweet-talk
  3. sweet-talked
  4. sweet-talker
  5. sweet-talkers
  6. sweet-talking
  7. sweet-talks
  8. sweet-tempered
  9. sweet-toothed
  10. sweet-william
  11. sweet-williams

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sweet-talking (page history and authors); sweet-talk (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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