wheedle

To cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery.ambitransitive

• I’d like one of those, too, if you can wheedle him into telling you where he got it.

To obtain by flattery, guile, or trickery.transitive

• If the worſt come to the worſt,—I'll turn my Wife to Graſs—I already have a deed of Settlement of the beſt part of her Eſtate; which I wheadl'd out of her; [...]
• She tore off my cap, scratched, kicked, and buffetted me, till she had exhausted her strength, declaring, as she rested her arm, ‘that I had wheedled her husband from her.

A coaxing person.archaic