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blarney::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | coaxing, soft soap, sweet talk |
| Type of | flattery |
Examples of blarney
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Despite all the blarney, Reagan and Mulroney managed to get some business done.
From the time.com
Director Alan Parker mixes Motown's sounds with blarney charm in this 1991 comedy.
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Whether audiences take to this whimsical slice of Irish blarney remains to be seen.
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You may suspect I have a bit of blarney and I presume I'll go out on a limb.
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Bring your blarney, and you'll probably even leave with a few new friends.
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Originally from Dublin, Gillen is the very opposite of the blarney-spouting Irishman.
From the guardian.co.uk
Hoopla, frantic flying, blarney about peace and prosperity are worthless.
From the time.com
I suspect Roddy Doyle was putting on the blarney a bit with you Sarah.
From the guardian.co.uk
Their guide, Bren-dan McKernan, laced fact with a heavy dose of blarney.
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- Flattery designed to gain favor
- Wheedle: influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; "He palavered her into going along"
- Blarney is a town and townland in County Cork, Ireland. It lies 8 km north-west of Cork and is famed as the site of Blarney Castle, home of the legendary Blarney Stone.
- Blarney is a 1926 film directed by Marcel De Sano, a period piece about an Irish prizefighter. The film is considered lost.
- Ability to talk constantly; Mindless chatter; Persuasive flattery or kind speech. The ability to tell a man to go to hell, in such a way as he will look forward to the trip; To beguile with flattery
- Blarney Irish Castle Cheese is a natural, semi-soft part-skim cheese rather like a young Gouda. Available in red wax, it is aged for a minimum of 90 days. Smoked Blarney Irish Castle Cheese is a non-waxed variation naturally smoked over oak fires.
- Stories, flattery, tall tales, idle discourse.
- 1796, from Blarney Stone* (which is said to make a persuasive flatterer of any who kiss it), in a castle near Cork, Ireland; reached wide currency through Lady Blarny, the smooth-talking flatterer in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield" (1766).
- A friendly way of talking to people and saying nice things about them that makes it easy to persuade people to do what you want.
