What does softie mean

softie

noun

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▪ How could you take an old softie like Henry and twist him around-your finger that way?

▪ Robinson, an old softie, asked if Gruoch loved Macbeth.

▪ Some New Age softie who babbled about using the right side of his or her brain.

▪ Such a big strong bloke, and such a softie.

▪ The Baden Powell boys say we're no softies.

▪ The white stubble on his fleshless jaw was a reproach to my twenty-four years and suddenly I felt an inadequate city-bred softie.

softie

n. (alternative form of softy English)

softie

n. a person who is weak and excessively sentimental [syn: softy]

Volley fire grenades, program: single line deep, fifty percent overlap, close support FPF softies to the left!

Pol laughed and made a few softie jokes while Alex and Chria tied up all the loose ends that needed to be dealt with.

He says that living around softies will contaminate even the most rule-bound shellperson.

Most third-shift crew wore softies, to reduce noise, and it certainly made sneaking up on wrongdoers easier.

I figure we got to get five, six good men up there first, to hold off the softies in case they get wind before we're ready.

Once we got control, we ship all the softies down here and let them mine the garnets—and if they can find any blue ones.

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