English-Thai Dictionary

blarney

N การ พูด ยกยอ อย่าง ไม่จริงใจ  ประจบสอพลอ  flattery kan-phud-yok-yor-yang-mai-jing-jai

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BLARNEY

Blar "ney, n. Etym: [Blarney, a village and castle near Cork. ]

 

Defn: Smooth, wheedling talk; flattery. [Colloq. ] Blarney stone, a stone in Blarney castle, Ireland, said to make those who kiss it proficient in the use of blarney.

 

BLARNEY

Blar "ney, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blarneyed; p. pr. & vb. n. Blarneying.]

 

Defn: To influence by blarney; to wheedle with smooth talk; to make or accomplish by blarney. "Blarneyed the landlord. " Irving. Had blarneyed his way from Long Island. S. G. Goodrich.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

blarney

blar ney |ˈblärnē ˈblɑrni | ▶noun talk that aims to charm, pleasantly flatter, or persuade: he had the “street charm ” of an Irish politician, but this blarney concealed his inner self. • amusing and harmless nonsense: this story is perhaps just a bit of blarney. ▶verb ( blarneys, blarneying, blarneyed ) [ with obj. ] influence or persuade (someone ) using charm and pleasant flattery. ORIGIN late 18th cent.: named after Blarney, a castle near Cork in Ireland, where there is a stone said to give the gift of persuasive speech to anyone who kisses it.

 

Oxford Dictionary

blarney

blar |ney |ˈblɑːni | ▶noun [ mass noun ] talk which aims to charm, flatter, or persuade (often considered typical of Irish people ): it took all my Irish blarney to keep us out of court. • amusing and harmless nonsense: this story is perhaps just a bit of blarney. ▶verb ( blarneys, blarneying, blarneyed ) [ with obj. ] influence or persuade (someone ) using charm and pleasant flattery: he went overboard in blarneying him into thinking that Joe considered him a nice guy. ORIGIN late 18th cent.: named after Blarney, a castle near Cork in Ireland, where there is a stone said to give the gift of persuasive speech to anyone who kisses it.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

blarney

blarney noun the cop actually fell for her blarney: smooth talk, honeyed words, flattery, blandishments, cajolery, coaxing, wheedling, persuasion, palaver; informal sweet talk, soft soap, smarm, buttering up; baloney, hogwash, bunk, malarkey.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

blarney

blarney noun it took all my Irish blarney to keep us out of court: blandishments, honeyed words, smooth talk, soft words, flattery, cajolery, coaxing, wheedling, compliments; fulsomeness, simpering, fawning, toadying, ingratiation, currying favour, inveiglement; charm offensive; informal sweet talk, soft soap, smarm, spiel, ego massage, buttering up, cosying up, cuddling up; Brit. informal flannel; Austral. /NZ informal guyver, smoodging; archaic glozing, lipsalve; rare cajolement.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

blarney

blar ney /blɑ́ː r ni /名詞 U ｟くだけて ｠お世辞, おべっか ; ざれ事 .動詞 他動詞 お世辞を言う .