different between allure vs tweedle

English

Etymology

From Middle English aluren, from Old French aleurer, alurer, from a (“to, towards”) (Latin ad) + leurre (“lure”). Compare lure.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??l(j)??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

allure (countable and uncountable, plural allures)

1. The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.
2. (dated) gait; bearing.
   • Harper's Magazine

     The swing, the gait, the pose, the allure of these men.

3. The walkway along the top of a castle wall, sometimes entirely covered and normally behind a parapet; the wall walk.

Translations

Verb

allure (third-person singular simple present allures, present participle alluring, simple past and past participle allured)

1. (transitive) To entice; to attract.

Synonyms

• attract, entice, tempt, decoy, seduce

Translations

Related terms

• lure

Anagrams

• Laurel, laurel

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French allure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???ly?.r?/
• Hyphenation: al?lu?re
• Rhymes: -y?r?

Noun

allure f (plural allures)

1. air, pretension

Derived terms

• sterallure

French

Etymology

aller +? -ure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ly?/
• Rhymes: -y?

Noun

allure f (plural allures)

1. appearance, look
2. speed, pace
3. angle of a boat from the wind
4. gait (of a horse)
5. chemin de ronde (raised protected walkway behind a castle battlement)

Derived terms

• à toute allure

Descendants

• ? Dutch: allure

Further reading

• “allure” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• la leur

English

Alternative forms

• twidle

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?twi?d?l/

Verb

tweedle (third-person singular simple present tweedles, present participle tweedling, simple past and past participle tweedled)

1. (intransitive, obsolete, Britain, dialect) To twist.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

2. (transitive, obsolete) To handle lightly; said with reference to awkward playing on a fiddle.
3. (transitive, obsolete, by extension) To influence as if by fiddling; to coax; to allure.

   Synonym: wheedle
4. To twiddle.
5. (Britain, slang) To sell fake jewellery as genuine.

Derived terms

• Tweedledum and Tweedledee

Noun

tweedle (plural tweedles)

1. A sound of the kind made by a fiddle.
2. (Britain, slang) A confidence trick in which fake jewellery is sold as genuine.

Anagrams

• tweeled