coaxer

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She remembers rookie director Wright as "a great coaxer," and took acting notes from her costar, who she calls "an exquisite performer."

From Time Magazine Archive

Directors of movies with kid actors have to be parent and disciplinarian, coach and coaxer to their young stars.

From Time Magazine Archive

The first tip of the season is always briskly rubbed on the trousers-leg and kept in the pocket of the recipient for the rest of the season as a "coaxer."

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 by Various

The one guardian is a narrow-minded tyrant, the other, Winckel's brother, a merchant, a frivolous coaxer.

From Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Huizinga, Johan

In honor of this crop we rechristened the old haymaker the "cantaloupe coaxer."

From A Busy Year at the Old Squire's by Stephens, C. A. (Charles Asbury)