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from The Century Dictionary.

noun A wheedling speech; cajolery.
Cajoling; wheedling; smooth-tongued.
To use cajolery or make wheedling speeches.
To cajole; wheedle; delude with specious pretenses.

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The fower lads stared at ither, an 'tried to whilly-wha him to be quiet.

David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893
The fower lads stared at ither, an 'tried to whilly-wha him to be quiet.

Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
The fower lads stared at ither, an 'tried to whilly-wha him to be quiet.

David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

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