[f. prec.] a. trans. To assail with blarney, to overcome or beguile with flattery. b. intr. To use flattering speech.
1803. Southey, Lett. (1856), I. 246. On the occasion of some prize, blarneying (Mrs. King will explain the word), and assuring him that he must get it.
1814. D. Mellinger, in Lancaster Jrnl., 3 June, 2/2. Be no longer deceived by those toryfied bloodsuckers, who have blarneyed you out of your liberty and money also.
1833. Marryat, P. Simple (1863), 302. But I wo’n’t blarney you, Peter.
1837. Hawthorne, Amer. Note-Bks. (1871), I. 43. Then would she wheedle and laugh and blarney.
Hence Blarneyed a., seasoned with blarney. Blarneyer, one who blarneys, a flatterer. Blarneyfied a. (slangy), blarneyed. Blarneying vbl. sb., flattering talk; ppl. a. flattering.
1861. Clington, Frank O’Donnell, 12. Whose blarneyed tongues and good looks proved irresistible passports.
1873. Daily Freeman, 22 Aug., 2/3. Fewer still ought to tolerate the inveterate blarneyer or blatherskite.
1882. Cornh. Mag., June, 671. All these avocats are arch blarneyers.
1830. Fraser’s Mag., I. 503. No balderdash of blarneyfied botheration.
1819. Alexandria Herald, 8 Jan., 4/1. Whispered her a little blarneying nonsense.
1884. Mary Hickson, Irel. in 17th C., I. 162. To follow with blind credulity in the wake of their blarneying orators, lay and clerical.
