to coax; to sweet-talk (persuade gradually) · to cajole · to humour (person)
çekim: geçmiş amadoué · ortaç amadoué · şimdiki amadoue · ulaç amadouant
köken: Inherited from Middle French amadouer (“to coax, lure”), from a- + *madouer (“to lure, give food to”), from Old Norse mata (“to lure, feed”), from Proto-Germanic *matōną, *matjaną (“to feed, eat”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“wet”). Cognate with Icelandic mata (“to bait, allure”), Danish made (“to feed”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (matjan, “to eat, have a meal”), Old English mete (“food”). More at…
to fawn, to curry favour (UK), to curry favor (US), to suck up, to toady, to wheedle (to seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour) · to show affection
çekim: geçmiş підле́щувавшись · şimdiki підле́щується
köken: From підле́щувати (pidléščuvaty) + -ся (-sja).
to blandish, fawn, flatter, butter up (to praise someone dishonestly)
çekim: geçmiş hízelegtek
köken: From hízelkedik (“to flatter someone”) + -leg (frequentative verb-forming suffix), from an otherwise unattested stem + -lkedik. Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.
çekim: geçmiş ticet · ortaç ticet · şimdiki tices · ulaç ticin
köken: From Middle English tyce, aphetic from Old French atisier (“to stir up”), probably from a word meaning "to set on fire," derived from Latin titio (“firebrand”). Compare English entice.