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• Blarney stone
  Blarney stone

  noun

  a stone in Blarney Castle near Cork, Ireland, said to impart skill in flattery to anyone who kisses it.
• Blarney Stone
  Blarney Stone

  noun

  a stone in Blarney Castle , in the SW Republic of Ireland, said to endow whoever kisses it with the gift of the gab and skill in flattery

Blarney stone

American  

noun

1. a stone in Blarney Castle near Cork, Ireland, said to impart skill in flattery to anyone who kisses it.

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Blarney Stone British  

noun

1. a stone in Blarney Castle , in the SW Republic of Ireland, said to endow whoever kisses it with the gift of the gab and skill in flattery

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Blarney Stone Cultural  

1. A stone in the wall of Blarney Castle in Ireland. According to an Irish legend, those who kiss the Blarney Stone receive a gift of eloquence that enables them to obtain, through persuasion, anything they want.

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People who talk “blarney” are saying things they do not mean. Usually the expression blarney is applied to flattery designed to gain a favor.

Example Sentences

Where, we repeat, is the Nursery Blarney-Stone? or rather, where is it not?

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 by Various

We know there must have been a large lump of the Blarney-Stone, conglomerate probably, kept in the desk of our reverend instructor in the ways of syntax and the dismal paths of numbers.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 by Various

A large fragment of the Nursery Blarney-Stone has been made over, to have and to hold, to the writers of the Children's Astor-Place Library.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 by Various

The Blarney-Stone got into our "Manual of History"; for either it or the "Boston Centinel" must have made some egregious mistakes as to the character of some famous men who nursed our country's fortunes.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 by Various