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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blarney.

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Examples

  • Government for a wound-gratuity until the next little war breaks out, when he perjures himself before a Medical Board, blarneys his Colonel, burns incense round his Adjutant, and is allowed to go to the Front once more.

    Soldier Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • If he lives, he writes Home that he has been "potted," "sniped," "chipped" or "cut over," and sits down to besiege Government for a wound-gratuity until the next little war breaks out, when he perjures himself before a Medical Board, blarneys his

    Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Perhaps the best of the city's blarneys, but not the place to discuss your plans to build or renovate with nonunion labor.

    unknown title 2009

  • An 'supposen Ole King Billy an' his ole black gin comes round at holiday time and squats on the verander, an 'blarneys an' wheedles and whines and argues like a hundred Jews an 'ole Irishwomen put tergether, an' accuses me o 'takin' his blarsted country from him, an 'makes me an' the missus laugh; an 'we gives him a bottl'er rum an' a bag of grub ter get rid of him an 'his rotten ole scarecrow tribe -- It all tells up.

    Children of the Bush Henry Lawson 1894

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