verb
- talking in a flattering or coaxing way to persuade someone
Usage: informal; present participle of blarney
Examples
- He was blarneying his way out of trouble again.
- She’s always blarneying her boss to get time off work.
- Stop blarneying me and tell me what you really want.
- The salesman was blarneying the customers with compliments.
- I could tell he was blarneying when he said I looked twenty years younger.
- They spent the evening blarneying the new neighbors.