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Another word for blarney

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Noun

  1. Excessive, ingratiating praise

    Idioms:
    See also:

    praise

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Another word for blarney

Noun
  1. See also:

    nonsense

    flattery

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Sentence Examples

  • The "Blarney Stone," the kissing of which is said to confer this faculty, is pointed out within the castle.

  • To its founder is traced by some the origin of the term "blarney," since he delayed by persuasion and promises the surrender of the castle to the lord president.

  • Excepting for greyhounds, however, high prices are rarely offered for sporting dogs, 300 guineas for the pointer "Coronation" and 200 guineas for the retriever "High Legh Blarney" being the best reported prices for gun dogs during the last few years.

  • Richard Millikin's song, "The Groves of Blarney" (c. 1798), contributed to the fame of the castle, which is also bound up with the civil history of the county and the War of the Great Rebellion.

  • BLARNEY, a small town of Co.

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