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Definition of Blarneyed
1. blarney [v] - See also: blarney
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blarneyed
Literary usage of Blarneyed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Curran and his contemporaries by Charles Phillips (1850)
"... he stood sponsor for the perfection of the Irish peasantry, fed their hopes,
flattered their foibles, blarneyed their pretensions ; and every word he ..."
2. Southwestern Historical Quarterly by Texas State Historical Association, Eugene Campbell Barker, Herbert Eugene Bolton, University of Texas at Austin Center for Studies in Texas History (1901)
"Although the officers commanding this expedition were thus blarneyed out of their
savage mission by Colonel Wharton's ruse de guerre, yet their government ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1868)
"the Priests, and it is by them that liberal Englishmen—the men who go over to
Ireland " to see for themselves," as they are pleased to call it—are blarneyed ..."
4. Recollections of a Lifetime: Or Men and Things I Have Seen: in a Series of by Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1857)
"The first had begged and blarneyed his way from Long Island, where he had been
wrecked ; the second was a liberated slave; and the last was the vestige of a ..."
5. Life of James Buchanan: Fifteenth President of the United States by George Ticknor Curtis (1883)
"... of my descent from an Irishman,) though they sometimes do blarney others, are
yet hard to be blarneyed themselves, especially out of their Democracy. ..."
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