German-English translations for schmeicheln

• adulate
• butter up
  He takes every opportunity to butter up the boss
• chat up
  Have you been chatting up my girlfriend?
  He spent all evening chatting her up.
• coax
  He coaxed the horse gently into the trailer
  They coaxed the rope through the pipe
• curry favour with
• fawn
• flatter
  Our group will nevertheless continue to defend them and to oppose those who, in order to flatter their electorate, strive to tone them down or postpone them indefinitely. Unsere Fraktion wird sie dennoch weiter verteidigen und sich all jenen entgegenstellen, die, um ihren Wählern zu schmeicheln, sie abmildern oder auf den Sankt-Nimmerleins-Tag verschieben wollen.
  Her portrait flatters her.
• make a fuss of
• wheedle
  Id like one of those, too, if you can wheedle him into telling you where he got it.

Related words

• schmeichelhaft
• Schmeichelei
• einschmeichelnd
• einschmeicheln
• Einschmeicheln
• Einschmeichelei
• umschmeicheln
• abschmeicheln
• erschmeicheln