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wheedling - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Verb

wheedling

• present participle and gerund of wheedle

Adjective

wheedling (comparative more wheedling, superlative most wheedling)

• Coaxing, aiming to persuade.
  • ✤ Then, in a soft, wheedling voice, “Canst thou not let me in, my little bird? Sure there are other lasses besides thyself who would like to trade with a poor peddler who has travelled all the way from Gruenstadt just to please the pretty ones of Trutz-Drachen.”¹
  • ✤ ESTRAGON: That would be too bad, really too bad. [Pause.] Wouldn’t it, Didi, be really too bad? [Pause.] When you think of the beauty of the way. [Pause.] And the goodness of the wayfarers. [Pause. Wheedling.] Wouldn’t it, Didi?²

Noun

wheedling (plural wheedlings)

• The act of one who wheedles.

Etymology

From wheedle + -ing.

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

1. 1888, Howard Pyle, “ch. 9”, in Otto of the Silver Hand: ↩

2. 1954, Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot ‎${}^{[1]}$, →ISBN, page 8: ↩

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