cajole : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: cajole	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for cajole
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cajole v influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; "He palavered her into going along" Synonym(s): wheedle, cajole, palaver, blarney, coax, sweet- talk, inveigle
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cajole \Cajole"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Cajoled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Cajoling}.] [F. cajoler, orig., to chatter like a bird in a cage, to sing; hence, to amuse with idle talk, to flatter, from the source of OF. goale, jaiole, F. ge[93]le, dim. of cage a cage. See {Cage}, {Jail}.] To deceive with flattery or fair words; to wheedle. I am not about to cajole* or flatter you into a reception of my views. --F. W. Robertson. Syn: To flatter; wheedle; delude; coax; entrap.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
CAJOLE (Chris And John's Own LanguagE) A {dataflow} language developed by Chris Hankin and John Sharp at {Westfield College}. ["The Data Flow Programming Language CAJOLE: An Informal Introduction", C.L. Hankin et al, SIGPLAN Notices 16(7):35-44 (Jul 1981)]. (1994-11-08)