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  • verb Present participle of blarney.

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Examples

  • Chane, who, in his usual Irish way, was "blarneying" with Jesusita, and helping her to fan the charcoal.

    The Rifle Rangers Mayne Reid 1850

  • Her face is cunning and pretty, and she makes a funny, blarneying noise when I go up to her.

    A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

  • The artist had gone abroad, and had left some of his pictures on the wall in charge of the carpenter -- a bewitched Greuze, copied in the Louvre; the inevitable study of a bird's-nest and primroses; a girl standing at a wash-tub by an open window, on the sill of which outside leaned an Irish peasant, with his handsome, blarneying face.

    Bluebell A Novel Mrs. George Croft Huddleston

  • Thought I was all fine, warm heart and blarneying words.

    Mrs. Red Pepper 1912

  • "You had ever a sweetly blarneying tongue," said she, and bestowed a parting caress impartially upon both the persons before her.

    The Indifference of Juliet Henry Hutt 1912

  • "And a very becoming flower a white rose is," she continued, "though I am a bold girl to be blarneying with a young gentleman I met no longer ago than last night."

    The Gentleman from Indiana Booth Tarkington 1907

  • The men found it sufficiently wonderful to satisfy even Freckles, who had forgotten he was ever sore or stiff, and coddled over it with every blarneying term of endearment he knew.

    Freckles 1904

  • As far back as Brandon could remember, the quaint Irishman had been the same wrinkled, nut-brown, merry-eyed comedian that he was to-day, and Mary the same serene, blarneying wife of the man.

    The Hollow of Her Hand George Barr McCutcheon 1897

  • There was no surprise, however, in view of the nomination of Jim Irwin by the blarneying Bonner when the secretary smoothed out the first ballot, and read: "James E. Irwin, one."

    The Brown Mouse Herbert Quick 1893

  • The men found it sufficiently wonderful to satisfy even Freckles, who had forgotten he was ever sore or stiff, and coddled over it with every blarneying term of endearment he knew.

    Freckles Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

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