coax

• vt.なだめる；おだてる；時間をかけて正す
• なだめる；説得する

コックの綴りの変化から、愚か者を意味するスラング。

coax

coax: [16] In the 16th and 17th century a cokes was a ‘simpleton, someone easily duped’ (it is not known where the word came from, although it might perhaps be related to cockney). To cokes someone was thus to ‘make a cokes of them, fool them’. This spelling survived until the 18th century, when it was supplanted by coax. The word’s meaning, meanwhile, had passed via ‘treat as a simpleton or pet’ and ‘fondle’ to ‘wheedle’.

coax (v.)

1580s, originally in slang phrase to make a coax of, from earlier noun coax, cox, cokes "a fool, ninny, simpleton" (1560s); modern spelling is 1706. Origin obscure, perhaps related to cock (n.1). Related: Coaxed; coaxing.

1. He was delighted to coax the monoplane to 330 m.p.h.

この単翼機は彼のいじりで時速330マイルに達し、彼は喜んだ。

2.It took Louis until Easter to coax a grudging consent from the French King.

ルイスは、復活祭までフランス国王の許可をかろうじて得た。

3.The WPC talked yesterday of her role in trying to coax vital information from the young victim.

昨日、この女性警察官は若い被害者に重要な情報を話すよう誘導する過程で自分が果たした役割について話した。

4.He would stride on stage then proceed to coax the sweetest possible sounds out of his violin.

彼は大股で舞台に上がり、そしてそっとバイオリンを弾き、美しいメロディーを奏でる。

5.If you can 't coax her，bring her by force.

だませないなら、手柄を使え！