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What does the word blarney mean?

Part of speech: verb transitive, verb intransitive

To flatter; cajole.

Part of speech: noun

Wheedling; flattery; in allusion to the Blarney stone in Blarney Castle, near Cork, Ireland, said to give to those who kiss it a cajoling tongue.

Usage examples for blarney

" I was too busy listening to their blarney, I guess. – Christopher and the Clockmakers by Sara Ware Bassett
I had hitherto believed that the Kilcoyne family sprang from the wild west of Ireland, but I begin to suspect that their source was nearer Blarney Castle. – Dear Enemy by Jean Webster
Another Boer laying down his arms, beguiled by Buller's blarney! – With Steyn and De Wet by Philip Pienaar

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