Meaning of blandander | Babel Free

Definitions

To flatter or cajole.

Ireland, dated

Examples

“'Norah dear,' says I, 'there's a regiment of Southerners at Mackenzie's farm in the wood. If you love Tom you'll run like the wind and bring them here as quick as the fine legs God gave you will carry you. I'll thry to blandander these fellows till you come back; but remember every minute's worth its weight in gold, and Tom's life hangs on a thread.'”

“But he blandandered me and, like a goat, / I paid the entry and he put me down.”

“That Last Infirmity, by Charles Brackett (John Day). Lightly and amiably satirical: a snob makes a Frankenstein's monster of a blandandering Irish widow.”

“Och, Mrs. Flanagan this, or Mrs. Flanagan that, you can blandander me till you're blue in the face, but it's not meself I have in mind...it's Patsy.”

“"Ah! More like yourself! That's right. There's a drop yet, Gentle," Bark blandandered, holding up the dandy for the heel.”

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