blandander, v. colloq.
(blænˈdændə(r))
[cf. Ir. blanndar dissimulation, flattery.]
trans. To tempt by blandishment (into); to cajole. Hence blanˈdandering ppl. a.
| 1888 Kipling Soldiers Three (1895) 70 I've blandanthered thim through the night somehow. 1896 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 1 Feb. 123/1 Boucicault was a coaxing, blandandhering sort of liar. 1898 Link 3/1 When you bullied and blandandered me into learning how to ride. 1914 Times Lit. Suppl. 4 June 267/2 [European diplomacy] refused to be blandandered by King Nicholas. |