Let the dog in!

transitive verb:

1. To persuade by ingenuity or flattery; to entice.
2. To obtain by ingenuity or flattery.

Inveigle comes from Anglo-French enveogler, from Old French aveugler, “to blind, to lead astray as if blind,” from aveugle, “blind,” from Medieval Latin ab oculis, “without eyes.”

I chose this word because Kid has taken a new tact, a new style of attack. Rather than yell, scream, and stomp feet to get something, she occasionally tries to inveigle me into giving her something. She usually starts this softer attack with “I looooooove you, Mommy. Will you lean your head down?”

At which point she kisses me, often before an audience who then moans, “Awwwwwww.”

Then she goes in for the kill, with sweetness oozing out of her ears, eyes, fingertips, and elbows.

“Can we go to the ice cream shop? Pullllleeeze??”

Isn’t she cute?

I’m pretty sure she learned this from her dad.

Are you getting inveigled?

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