cajole

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• UK: /kəˈdʒəʊl/
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• US: kə-jōlʹ
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• US: /kəˈd͡ʒoʊl/
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• rhymes with -əʊl
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• CMU ARPABET: K AH0 JH OW1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from French cajoler, probably a blend of Middle French cageoler (“chatter like a jay”) (from gajole, dialectal diminutive of geai (“jaybird”)) + Old French gaioler (“entice into a cage”), which is from Medieval Latin gabiola, from Late Latin caveola (whence English caveola), diminutive of Latin cavea (“cage, coop, enclosure, stall”). More at cage, cave, cavum, cavus, and jail.

64 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: придумвам (pridumvam) — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Catalan: entabanar — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Catalan: ensibornar — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Chinese Mandarin: 誘哄 /诱哄 (yòuhǒng) — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Chinese Mandarin: 勸誘 /劝诱 (quànyòu) — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Czech: obloudit — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Czech: obluzovat — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Czech: přemluvit — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Czech: přesvědčit — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Czech: přesvědčovat — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Czech: přemlouvat — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Esperanto: kaĵoli — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Finnish: houkutella — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Finnish: suostutella — to encourage or persuade by effort
• German: beschwatzen — to encourage or persuade by effort
• German: verführen — to encourage or persuade by effort
• German: dazu bringen — to encourage or persuade by effort
• German: umgarnen — to encourage or persuade by effort
• German: überreden — to encourage or persuade by effort
• German: drängen — to encourage or persuade by effort
• German: betteln — to encourage or persuade by effort
• German: schmeicheln — to encourage or persuade by effort
• German: zureden — to encourage or persuade by effort
• German: kajo­lie­ren — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Greek: καλοπιάνω (kalopiáno) — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Hungarian: rábeszél — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Hungarian: levesz a lábáról — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Hungarian: hízeleg — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Hungarian: gazsulál — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Irish: bladair — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Italian: persuadere — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Japanese: 丸める (marumeru) — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Japanese: 丸め込む (marumekomu) — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Japanese: 誑す (tarasu) — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Japanese: 賺す (sukasu) — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Japanese: 甘言 (kangen) — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Latin: lactō — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Latin: sublectō — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Māori: whakapati — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Māori: ene — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Māori: eneene — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Polish: naciągać — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Polish: naciągnąć — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Polish: przymilać się — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Polish: przymilić się — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Polish: przypochlebiać się — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Polish: przypochlebić się — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Portuguese: lisonjear — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Portuguese: persuadir — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Portuguese: adular — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Portuguese: bajular — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Russian: улеща́ть (uleščátʹ) — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Russian: увещева́ть (uveščevátʹ) — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Serbo-Croatian: nagovoriti — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Serbo-Croatian: privoljeti — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Spanish: engatusar — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Spanish: lisonjear — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Spanish: camelar — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Spanish: empaquetar — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Spanish: cantusar — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Spanish: encatusar — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Spanish: encantusar — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Welsh: cocsio — to encourage or persuade by effort
• Welsh: swcro — to encourage or persuade by effort