BLANDISH

PRONUNCIATION: (BLAN-dish)

MEANING: verb intr.: To coax with flattery.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin blandiri (to flatter). Ultimately from the Indo-European root mel- (soft), which also gave us bland, melt, smelt, malt, mild, mulch, mollify, mollusk, emollient, enamel, smalto, and schmaltz. Earliest documented use: 1305.

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CLANDISH - see HAGGIS