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sweettalk

sweettalk is the alternative form 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

Forms of sweettalk

third-person singular presentsweettalks
present participlesweettalking
past participlesweettalked
pastsweettalked

Questions about sweettalk

What is sweettalk the alternative form of?
Sweettalk is the alternative form of sweet-talk.

Words near sweettalk in the dictionary

  1. sweetsops
  2. sweetspire
  3. sweetspires
  4. sweetstuff
  5. sweetstuffs
  6. sweettalk
  7. sweettalked
  8. sweettalking
  9. sweettalks
  10. sweetums
  11. sweetveld

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sweettalk (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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