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noun Etymology: Blarney stone, a stone in Blarney Castle, near Cork, Ireland, held to bestow skill in flattery on those who kiss it Date: 1784 1. skillful flattery ; blandishment 2. nonsense, humbug • ~ verb BLARNEY geographical name town SW Ireland in central County Cork population 1952 ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. 1 cajoling talk; flattery. 2 nonsense. --v. (-eys, -eyed) 1 tr. flatter (a person) with blarney. 2 intr. talk flatteringly. Etymology: Blarney, an Irish castle near Cork with a stone said to confer a cajoling tongue on whoever kisses it ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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~ n informal especially BrE pleasant but untrue things that you say to someone in order to trick or persuade them ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1819, from Blarney Stone, in a castle near Cork, Ireland; reached wide currency through Lady Blarny, the smooth-talking flatterer in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield" (1766). ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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