blandish
/ˈblandɪʃ
/verb [with object] archaic
Coax (someone) with kind words or flattery: I was blandishing her with imprudences to get her off the subject...
- They are thriving, sleeping and dreaming in that inner mammalian world, while their carrier lies by my side, when she's not blandishing me for food scraps.
Origin
Middle English: from Old French blandiss-, lengthened stem of blandir, from Latin blandiri, from blandus 'soft, smooth'.
Rhymes
- Chicken Little
- chicken-livered
- chicken Maryland
- chicken nugget
- chicken pock
- chickenpox
- chicken run
- chickenshit
- chicken supreme
- chicken suprême
- chicken wire
- chicken à la king
- chicken à la Maryland
- chick flick
- chicklet
- chickling pea
- chick lit
- chick magnet
- chickpea
- chickweed
- chicle
- chicly
- chicness
- Chicopee
- chicory