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Definition of Softies
1. softie [n] - See also: softie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Softies
Literary usage of Softies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Childhood by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell (1913)
"... softies of fas mothe u^^r^ I. TOYS EVEN when we are about buying for a child
the pretty toy, one thing we always say—"And yet children love their ugly ..."
2. The Mediaeval Stage by Edmund Kerchever Chambers (1903)
"But in several examples these figures are a string of Narren, and the matter of
the verses is in the satirical vein of the softies 3. ..."
3. The Mediaeval Stage by Edmund Kerchever Chambers (1903)
"Of the later and regular softies, the most famous are those written by Pierre
... They share, however, with the softies their fundamental idea of the ..."
4. Gaston Olaf by Henry Oyen (1917)
""Pardon me, my friend," he said, puzzled, "but let's have that over again.
What was it you said about the 'softies' ?" "Why, I just said there'd ..."
5. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (1858)
"Mysteries are to be distinguished from Moralities and Farces, and softies.
Moralities are dialogues where the interlocutors represented feigned or ..."
6. Representative English Comedies: With Introductory Essays and Notes, an by Charles Mills Gayley, Alwin Thaler (1903)
"And a like effect might naturally be expected to have been exercised by the
softies of the contemporary enfants sans souci; for, through the fourteenth and ..."
7. The Monthly Review by Henry Newbolt, Charles Hanbury-Williams (1902)
"Among the mad folk," replied that dark woman bitterly —" a pack of slavering
softies." "A pack of slavering softies maybe," retorted Andra' Gilray ..."
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