blarney
- n flattery designed to gain favor
- v influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
- His gravel-voiced oratory beats at the unwary with the brass of a top sergeant and the blarney of a sideshow barker.
- This time the Cockneys and Afro-Brits are joined by crooks Russian, Hasidic-American and crypto-Irish Gypsy (a funny, blarney-spewing Brad Pitt).
- The Last Hurrah (John Ford; Columbia) is based on Edwin O'Connor's 1956 bestseller about the bad old days when political machines were run on blarney, graft, openhanded charity .