▪ I. fleeching, vbl. n. Sc.
(ˈfliːtʃɪŋ)
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of coaxing or wheedling; also, a coaxing or wheedling speech.
| c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints, Agatha 66 Bot tuk bath ewine in a lyne Þar harsknes and þare flechinge. c 1475 Rauf Coilȝear 902 Now faindis to haue fauour with thy fleichingis. 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 522 The plesand langage and the countenance, The fair flesching. 1824 Scott Redgauntlet let. xii, ‘Hout wi' your fleeching’, said Dame Martin. 1892 Northumbld. 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.
| 1513 Douglas æneis ii. iii. (ii.) 56 The fals flechand Vlixes. 1686 G. Stuart Joco-ser. Disc. 64 That fleetching knave. 1787 Burns Ded. to G. Hamilton i, Expect na, Sir,..A fleechin, fleth'rin dedication. 1893 Stevenson Catriona vii, That long, false, fleeching beggar of a father of hers. |
Hence ˈfleechingly adv.
| 1688 Shields Notes & Heads 5 (Jam.) They be now speaking fair fleechingly and flatteringly to this generation. |