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▪ I. fleeching, vbl. n. Sc.|ˈfliːtʃɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of coaxing or wheedling; also, a coaxing or wheedling speech.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Agatha 66 Bot tuk bath ewine in a lyne Þar harsknes and þare flechinge. c1475Rauf Coilȝear 902 Now faindis to haue fauour with thy fleichingis. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 522 The plesand langage and the countenance, The fair flesching. 1824Scott Redgauntlet let. xii, ‘Hout wi' your fleeching’, said Dame Martin. 1892Northumbld. Gloss., Aa wadna gan ti church wi' him for a' his fleechin.
▪ II. fleeching, ppl. a. Sc.|ˈfliːtʃɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That fleeches; coaxing, wheedling.
1513Douglas æneis ii. iii. (ii.) 56 The fals flechand Vlixes. 1686G. Stuart Joco-ser. Disc. 64 That fleetching knave. 1787Burns Ded. to G. Hamilton i, Expect na, Sir,..A fleechin, fleth'rin dedication. 1893Stevenson Catriona vii, That long, false, fleeching beggar of a father of hers.
Hence ˈfleechingly adv.
1688Shields Notes & Heads 5 (Jam.) They be now speaking fair fleechingly and flatteringly to this generation. |