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Verb
/ˈblärnē/,
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Talk that aims to charm, pleasantly flatter, or persuade,
  1. Influence or persuade (someone) using charm and pleasant flattery

Noun
  1. Talk that aims to charm, pleasantly flatter, or persuade
    • - he had the “street charm” of an Irish politician, but this blarney concealed his inner self
  2. Amusing and harmless nonsense
    • - this story is perhaps just a bit of blarney
  1. flattery designed to gain favor
  2. wheedle: influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; "He palavered her into going along"
  3. Blarney is a town and townland in County Cork, Ireland. It lies 8 km north-west of Cork and is famed as the site of Blarney Castle, home of the legendary Blarney Stone.
  4. Blarney is a 1926 film directed by Marcel De Sano, a period piece about an Irish prizefighter. The film is considered lost.
  5. Ability to talk constantly; Mindless chatter; Persuasive flattery or kind speech. The ability to tell a man to go to hell, in such a way as he will look forward to the trip; To beguile with flattery
  6. Blarney Irish Castle Cheese is a natural, semi-soft part-skim cheese rather like a young Gouda. Available in red wax, it is aged for a minimum of 90 days. Smoked Blarney Irish Castle Cheese is a non-waxed variation naturally smoked over oak fires.
  7. Made by Kerrygold, Ireland’s most famous butter producer, Blarney cheese (named after the famous Castle in County Cork) is a mild, semi-hard cheese made from cows' milk. Comes in low fat version.
  8. Stories, flattery, tall tales, idle discourse.
  9. 1796, from Blarney Stone* (which is said to make a persuasive flatterer of any who kiss it), in a castle near Cork, Ireland; reached wide currency through Lady Blarny, the smooth-talking flatterer in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield" (1766).
  10. a friendly way of talking to people and saying nice things about them that makes it easy to persuade people to do what you want.