weedle
weedle is the misspelling of wheedle.
Meaning of wheedle
Verb
wheedle (third-person singular simple present wheedles, present participle wheedling, simple past and past participle wheedled)
- To cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery.
- I’d like one of those, too, if you can wheedle him into telling you where he got it.
- Synonyms:
- butter up, inveigle, sweet-talk, blandander, blandish, cajole, sweeten, fast-talk, canoodle, carny
- To obtain by flattery, guile, or trickery.
- If the worſt come to the worſt,—I'll turn my Wife to Graſs—I already have a deed of Settlement of the beſt part of her Eſtate; which I wheadl'd out of her; [...]1700, [William] Congreve, The Way of the World, a Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act III, scene xviii, page 51
Questions about weedle
- What is weedle the misspelling of?
- Weedle is the misspelling of wheedle.
Words near weedle in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: weedle (page history and authors); wheedle (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.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “weedle.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/weedle. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
