different between beguilement vs blarney

English

Etymology

beguile +? -ment

Noun

beguilement (plural beguilements)

1. The action or process of beguiling; the characteristic of being beguiling.
   • 1924, Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Autobiography, First Edition, Volume 2, entry dated Tuesday, April 10, 1906, ^[1]

     Little by little Bacon got to beguiling out of Hill things to do, and presently Hill was furnishing him the things to do without any beguilement.

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 8,

     But a line wasn't feasibly resisted. He loved the etiquette of the thing, the chopping with a credit card, the passing of the tightly rolled note, the procedure courteous and dry, “all done with money,” as Wani said—it was part of the larger beguilement, and once it had begun it squeezed him with its charm and promise.

English

Etymology

Named after a legendary magical stone in Blarney Castle, Ireland that gives the gift of eloquence. See also Blarney Stone.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?bl??ni/
• (Ireland) IPA^(key): /?bla??ni/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?bl??ni/
• Rhymes: -??(?)ni

Noun

blarney (uncountable)

1. Mindless chatter.

   He is full of blarney.

2. Ability to talk constantly and fluently.
3. Persuasive flattery or kind speech; smooth, wheedling talk.

Verb

blarney (third-person singular simple present blarneys, present participle blarneying, simple past and past participle blarneyed)

1. To beguile with flattery.

Anagrams

• Braelyn, Braylen