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Synonyms for blarney

Grammar : Noun
Spell : blahr-nee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈblɑr ni

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Définition of blarney

Origin :
  • 1796, from Blarney Stone (which is said to make a persuasive flatterer of any who kiss it), in a castle near Cork, Ireland. As Bartlett explains it, the reason is the difficulty of the feat of kissing the stone where it sits high up in the battlement: "to have ascended it, was proof of perseverence, courage, and agility, whereof many are supposed to claim the honor who never achieved the adventure." So to have kissed the Blarney Stone came to mean "to tell wonderful tales" ["Dictionary of Americanisms," 1848]. The word reached wide currency through Lady Blarney, the smooth-talking flatterer in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield" (1766). As a verb from 1803.
  • noun flattery
Example sentences :
  • All her share of the blarney of Ireland began to roll from the mellow tip of her tongue.
  • Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
  • But why shouldn't you blarney with a gentleman, when you began by saving his life?
  • Extract from : « The Gentleman From Indiana » by Booth Tarkington
  • Blarney her cliverly, and work her to a foam against the McBrides.
  • Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
  • If anybody wanted money, he kissed the Blarney Stone and applied to Pete.
  • Extract from : « The Manxman » by Hall Caine
  • The Irish race appear to have kissed the Blarney stone in globo.
  • Extract from : « My New Curate » by P.A. Sheehan
  • In Ireland, she had kissed the Blarney stone and picked shamrock in the ruins.
  • Extract from : « The Bill-Toppers » by Andre Castaigne
  • The blarney to put yourself over, and the ability to back it up.
  • Extract from : « Hail to the Chief » by Gordon Randall Garrett
  • And yet, who could write of an Irish tour and make no reference to Blarney.
  • Extract from : « In Unfamiliar England » by Thomas Dowler Murphy
  • No one can wheedle like an Irish beggar or "blarney" like an Irish ward boss.
  • Extract from : « The Old World in the New » by Edward Alsworth Ross
  • Its all sham and blarney, and a burning shame to you, to boot.
  • Extract from : « At War with Society or, Tales of the Outcasts » by James McLevy
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