coax
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coax¹
- /kəʊks/ UK
- /koʊks/ US
Sounds like Cokes, cokes · Rhymes with -əʊks, -oʊks
Where it comes from
Originally (1586) in the slang phrase to make a coax of, from earlier noun coax, cox, cokes "fool, simpleton", itself of obscure origin, perhaps related to cock (“male bird, pert boy”). The modern spelling is from 1706.
verb coaxes · coaxing · coaxed
- To fondle, kid, pet, tease.
- To wheedle or persuade (a person, organisation, animal etc.) gradually or by use of flattery to do something. She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.
- To carefully manipulate (someone or something) into a particular desired state, situation or position. They coaxed the rope through the pipe.
Similar: blandander, blandish, butter up, cajole, sweeten, fast-talk, canoodle, carny, coax, collogue, croodle, engle
noun coaxes
- A simpleton; a dupe. Go, you're a brainless Coax, a Toy, a Fop, I'll go no farther than your Name, Sir Gregory
coax²
- /ˈkəʊæks/ UK
- /koʊæks/ US
Where it comes from
Shortened from coaxial
noun coaxes
- Clipping of coaxial cable.coaxial cable
adjective
- Clipping of coaxial.coaxial
