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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of blarney.

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Examples

  • A little group round Schilsky blarneyed and expostulated.

    Maurice Guest 2003

  • I blarneyed a bit, giving a delicate impression of being in the trade myself, with a client for the empty shop.

    In The Frame Francis, Dick 1976

  • Don't ye mind the time the trusters had planned to give us all paint-boxes for Christmas, an 'half of us not able to hold a brush, let alone paint things, an' Miss Peggie blarneyed them round into givin 'us books?

    The Primrose Ring Ruth Sawyer 1925

  • Would you believe that, in the spring after the book was published, a disreputable-looking vagabond with a knapsack, who turned up one day, blarneyed Andrew about his book and stayed overnight, announced himself at breakfast as a leading New York publisher?

    Parnassus on Wheels Christopher Morley 1923

  • Then we argued among ourselves, coaxed, blarneyed, persuaded, and tried to bribe one another.

    The Ivory Trail Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

  • Would you believe that, in the spring after the book was published, a disreputable-looking vagabond with a knapsack, who turned up one day, blarneyed Andrew about his book and stayed overnight, announced himself at breakfast as a leading New York publisher?

    Parnassus On Wheels 1917

  • The old woman's mirror told her that she was getting thin, that the work she had undertaken was too hard for her, and sometimes when the men drove in from the village with supplies (and the Poor Boy hid himself) she blarneyed them into lending a hand here and there.

    If You Touch Them They Vanish Gouverneur Morris 1914

  • Then we argued among ourselves, coaxed, blarneyed, persuaded, and tried to bribe one another.

    The Ivory Trail Talbot Mundy 1909

  • Without any influence whatever, save his pleasing address and his wide education, he blarneyed the State

    The Goose Girl Harold MacGrath 1901

  • Evidently Trooper O'Connell during the past twenty-four hours had foraged or blarneyed most successfully for out of the knapsack which he had left behind Morrison suddenly produced a small earthenware jam jar in which was something now indubitably liquid in form but none the less sweet, yellow, appetizing butter.

    The Littlest Rebel Edward Henry Peple 1896

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