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blarney
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
blarney \blar"ney\ (bl[aum]r"n[y^]), n. [Blarney, a village and castle near Cork in Ireland.] Smooth, wheedling talk; flattery. [Colloq.] Blarney stone , a stone in Blarney castle, Ireland (built in 1446), said to make those who kiss it proficient in the ...
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BLARNEY is a communications surveillance program of the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States. It started in 1978, operated under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and was expanded after the September 11 attacks . The collection takes ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1796, from Blarney Stone (which is said to make a persuasive flatterer of any who kiss it), in a castle near Cork, Ireland. As Bartlett explains it, the reason is the difficulty of the feat of kissing the stone where it sits high up in the battlement: "to ...
Usage examples of blarney.
Rest, on the way to Blarney, the tarmac-gray sky had grown even darker, and huge spots of rain had begun to fall across the road.
Blarney Castle, a few miles northwest of Cork City, to do what all conscientious tourists were obliged to do, and kiss the Blarney Stone.
Winnebago and three mobile homes parked on a derelict farm about a mile outside of Tower, on the Blarney road.
She turned up by the dark flinty walls of Cork Gaol, and up onto the Blarney Road.
This afternoon, however, Blarney was almost deserted, with only one coach in the car park.
We have a sighting of Fiona Kelly near Blarney, and a vehicle description.
I thought Ula was crazy, spouting off a bunch of blarney, but everything she said was true.
From Blarney to the Blaskets the distance is not that of a couple of counties, but the gap between Kylemore and Rinvyle between civilization and savagery.
I had an excellent opportunity of seeing the factory hands, for I went to Blarney on pay-day, and was greatly struck by the difference between their appearance and that of the people engaged in agriculture alone.
One reason of course of the comfortable look of the Blarney folk is that all the family work.
The houses of the workpeople at Blarney are neat and trim, white and clean, and a repose to the eyes of beholders, sick of slouching thatch and bulging mud walls.
He got his arm around her and began emitting the steady stream of blarney Irishmen use to calm women and horses.
There was an awkward silence which Flaherty filled with blarney while pouring drinks.
Rudolf sat and grumped while Lillith and Flaherty exchanged blarney in the kitchen.
Somewhere amid all that blarney Rudolf was sure he had heard something important.