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wheedler

wheedler noun: one who wheedles; a sweet talker.

Noun

wheedler (plural wheedlers)

  1. One who wheedles; a sweet talker.
    • Then the landlady began telling him this story, that she had heard from Theodore, Monsieur Guillaumin's servant, and although she destested Tellier, she blamed Lheureux. He was “a wheedler, a sneak.”1886, Gustave Flaubert, chapter VIII, in Eleanor Marx-Aveling, transl., Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners […], London: Vizetelly & Co., […], →OCLC, part II, pages 148–149

Forms of wheedler

pluralwheedlers

Origin of wheedler

From wheedle + -er.

Questions about wheedler

What does wheedler mean?
Wheedler means one who wheedles; a sweet talker.
What part of speech is wheedler?
Wheedler is a noun.
What is the plural of wheedler?
The plural of wheedler is wheedlers.

Words near wheedler in the dictionary

  1. wheeching
  2. wheechs
  3. wheed
  4. wheedle
  5. wheedled
  6. wheedler
  7. wheedlers
  8. wheedles
  9. wheedlesome
  10. wheedling
  11. wheedlingly

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