honeyfuggle
v Also
honeyfackle,
honeyfugle,
honeyfogle [Perh var of Engl dial
connyfogle
v. “To hoodwink, entice by flattery” infl by
honey n; cf also
EDD gallyfuggle v. “To deceive, take in” and
honey
style="font-weight: normal;">v1]
somewhat
old-fash1 To swindle or dupe; to
intend to cheat or trick; hence vbl n honeyfuggling. Cf bamfoozle
11829
Va. Lit. Museum 30 Dec. 458 (DAE) KY,
Honeyfuggle, to quiz, to cozen. 1848
Bartlett Americanisms 179, Honey-fogle, to swindle;
to cheat; to lay plans to deceive. 1852 Knickerbocker
40.548 FL, A neighbor . . honey-fackled
him in the matter of a heap of logs. 1858 Harper’s
New Mth. Mag. 17.270/1, “It’s all honey-fuggling”. . .
“What’s honey-fuggling?” “It’s cutting it too fat over the left.” 1931
Hench Coll. cVA, Alderman was no judge of
men. He never could tell whether a man was a gentleman or a bounder.
Anybody could honeyfogle him.
2 To flatter, sweet-talk;
to wheedle; to ballyhoo; hence n honeyfoogler a flatterer.
style="display: block; text-indent: 1em; font-size: 0.9em;">1856
Knickerbocker 48.286 (OEDS), They go cavorting out,
honey-fuggling their consciences. 1856 U.S. Congress Congressional
Globe 34th Cong 1st Sess 22 July app 965/1 NE,
Pardon me for using the word; but Sharp “honey-fuggled”
around me. 1899 (1912) Green VA Folk-Speech
229, Honeyfuggle. . . To cajole; wheedle. 1906
DN 3.141 nwAR, Honey-fuggle. . . To
cajole, flatter. “He can’t honey-fuggle him.” 1912 NY
Eve. Jrl. 8th ed 25 Mar 12 (Zwilling Coll.), [Cartoon:]
The colonel was up on the platform honey fugling the small town boys to
beat the band. He was just starting to tell how he knocked an elephant
dead with one punch when—Crash. 1912 DN
3.578 wIN, Honey fuggle. . . To win
with sweet promises. Sometimes pronounced fugle. 1930
Shoemaker 1300 Words 28 cPA Mts (as of
c1900), Honeyfoogler—One who gets into another’s graces by
flattery. 1960 Wentworth–Flexner Slang 265,
Honeyfuggle[,
style="font-size: 75%; vertical-align: sub;">] honeyfogle.
. . To flatter or cajole; esp. to flatter or cajole one’s
sweetheart . . or an attractive woman, esp. to do so to gain
sexual favor or make her forget anger or displeasure. . . Archaic.
3 with with: To
consort with, “snuggle up to.”
style="display: block; text-indent: 1em; font-size: 0.9em;">1887
Courier–Jrl. (Louisville KY) 7 May 4/4, The modern practices
in politics of . . temporizing with cranks, demagogues and
tricksters instead of sending them to the rear; and of honey-fuggling
with rascals instead of hitting them a death-blow between the eyes. 1898
Harte Stories in Light 191, Honeyfogling with a horse-thief,
eh?
4 To lure, entice.
style="display: block; text-indent: 1em; font-size: 0.9em;">1888
Century Illustr. Mag. 36.81/2 IL, He acts
like a man that ’s got a deadfall all sot, un is a-tryin’ to
honey-fugle the varmint to git ’im to come underneath. 1894
DN 1.331 NJ, Honey-fogle: to
allure by traps. 1902 Harben Abner Daniel
157 (DAE), He’s been tryin’ to honeyfuggle the old man into a
trade, but I don’t think he made a deal with ’im.
5 also honeyfuddle:
To show affection in public.
style="display: block; text-indent: 1em; font-size: 0.9em;">1969–70
DARE (Qu. AA8, When people make too much of a show of
affection in a public place . . “There they were at the church
supper _____[with each other].”) Inf GA77,
Honeyfugglin’—old-fashioned; WV16, Honeyfuddling.
