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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)

  1. (ambitransitive) 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.
  2. (transitive) 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

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Questions about weedle

What is weedle the misspelling of?
Weedle is the misspelling of wheedle.

Words near weedle in the dictionary

  1. Weedjie
  2. Weedjies
  3. weedkiller
  4. weedkillers
  5. weedkilling
  6. weedle
  7. weedless
  8. weedlessness
  9. weedlike
  10. weedline
  11. weedlines

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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.

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