To get someone to do something, or to give you something, by being sweet to them — soft voice, compliments, a bit of charm you do not really mean. The speaker who uses this word disapproves. Calling it wheedling says: that person was not honest, they were working on someone. It is a gentle, patient kind of pressure, not shouting or threatening. A child who wants ice cream and keeps saying "but you're the best mum" is wheedling. A salesman who flatters you until you sign is wheedling. Watch the grammar, because it has favourite patterns. You wheedle a person INTO doing something: "she wheedled him into lending her the car." You wheedle a thing OUT OF a person: "he wheedled fifty dollars out of his brother." It can also stand alone: "stop wheedling." And there is a common adjective, "a wheedling voice" — that thin, sugary, pleading tone. It is not a common everyday word; it belongs more to writing and to stories than to daily conversation, and it sounds a little old-fashioned. Its plainer neighbours are "sweet-talk," "coax," and "talk someone into." "Coax" is the kind one — you coax a frightened cat out from under a bed, and nobody thinks badly of you. "Wheedle" always has that shadow on it. There is also a rare noun meaning the act of wheedling, but you will hardly ever meet it.

（用甜言蜜語、撒嬌、拍馬屁）哄騙、纏著要、軟磨硬泡地弄到手。帶貶意——說某人 wheedle，就是說他嘴上甜、心裡有目的。中性的那個字是 coax（哄）