vleien

Meaning

Verb

1. (ambitransitive) to flatter, coax, sweet-talk, wheedle (praise excessively and disingenuously)
2. (transitive) to convince, talk into, talk over
3. (transitive) to entice, lure, seduce
4. (reflexive, transitive) to fondle, pet, stroke
5. (reflexive, transitive) to flatter (present disingenuously)

Noun

plural of vlei

vlei

1. (first-person, form-of, indicative, present, singular) inflection of vleien:
2. (form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular) inflection of vleien:
3. (form-of, imperative) inflection of vleien:

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Concepts

flatter

adulate

butter up

coax

fawn

blandish

cajole

wheedle

jolly

palaver

soft-soap

fawn on

cringe

play up to

blarney

Synonyms

flatteren

verleiden

verlokken

versieren

weglokken

hielenlikken

strelen

flemen

flikflooien

overdreven vleien

Translations

schmeicheln

lusingare

lisonjear

flatter

adular

lisonjear

adulare

afalagar

aduler

halagar

gabar

bajular

amadouer

adular

adular

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈvlɛi̯.ə(n)/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Dutch: vleien

Inherited from Old Dutch: *fleien

In summary

From Middle Dutch vleien, from Old Dutch *fleien, from Proto-West Germanic *flaihijan.