| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Blarney.[Websters]
2. To be buttered or oiled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have flattered, cajoled, soaped, toadied or ingratiated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be sugared or honeyed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have wheedled or coaxed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To be greased. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have fawned or truckled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have cringed or crouched.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb blarney.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (blarney) | 1. Influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering.[Wordnet]. 2. To influence by blarney; to wheedle with smooth talk; to make or accomplish by blarney.[Websters]. 3. Base verb from the following inflections: blarneying, blarneyed, blarneys, blarneyer, blarneyers, blarneyingly and blarneyedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "BLARNEYED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1908. (references) |
Specialty Definition: blarney
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Literature | 1: Blarney None of your blarney. Soft, wheedling speeches to gain some end; sugar-words. Cormack Macarthy held the castle of Blarney in 1602, and concluded an armistice with Carew, the Lord President, on condition of surrendering the fort to the English garrison. Day after day his lordship looked for the fulfilment of the terms, but received nothing except protocols and soft speeches, till he became the laughing-stock of Elizabeth's ministers, and the dupe of the Lord of Blarney. 2: To kiss the Blarney Stone. Whoever does this shall be able to persuade to anything. The Blarney Stone is triangular, lowered from the north angle of the castle, about twenty feet from the top, and containing this inscription: "Cormac Mac Carthy fortis me fieri fecit, A.D. 1446." Blarney is near Cork. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Slang in 1811 | BLARNEY. He has licked the blarney stone; he deals in the wonderful, or tips us the traveller. The blarney stone is a triangular stone on the very top of an ancient castle of that name in the county of Cork in Ireland, extremely difficult of access; so th. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
| Wikipedic | Blarney (An Bhlárna in Irish), is a village some 11 km northwest of Cork in Ireland. It is the site of Blarney Castle, home of the legendary Blarney Stone. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: blarney
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Blarney Castle | Blarney Castle is a stronghold in Blarney, near Cork, Ireland. (references) | ||
| Blarney stone | 1: A stone in Blarney castle, Ireland, said to make those who kiss it proficient in the use of blarney. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: A stone in a castle in Ireland that is said to impart skill in flattery to anyone who kisses it. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Blarney Stone | The Blarney Stone is a legendary block of limestone built into the battlements of Blarney Castle, near Cork, Ireland. Supposedly, kissing the stone endows the kisser with great eloquence. The stone was set into a tower of the castle in 1446. The Blarney Stone is supposed to be half of the original Stone of Scone. (references) | ||
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Topics by Level of Interest: blarney | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Blarney Castle | 16 | Blarney | 11 | |
| Blarney Stone | 11 | Blarney Castle | 16 | |
| Blarney | 11 | Blarney railway station | 4 | |
| Blarney railway station | 4 | Blarney Stone | 11 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
