英:[ˈsɔ:fti:, ˈsɔf-]
美:[ˈsɔfti, ˈsɑf-]
英:[ˈsɔ:fti:, ˈsɔf-]
美:[ˈsɔfti, ˈsɑf-]
soft·y
sawf ti
复数:softies
词根:softy
n.softie 笨人;柔弱的人
noun
(informal) someone who is sentimental and soft-hearted.
one who cannot discipline or be strict.
也 softie,1863年,指“愚蠢的人”,来自 soft(形容词),如 soft in the head,+ -y(3)。 “心地善良的人”的意思来自1886年; “软弱,不男子气或女性化的男人”的意思来自1895年。与1540年代的 softling “女性化,不男子气的人”相比。 Mister Softee 软冰淇淋业务始于1956年的费城。
soft >entry 1
The first known use of softy was in 1850
sojourn1 of 2noun
a temporary stay
sojourn2 of 2verb
to stay as a temporary resident : stop
sojourned for a month at a resort
soireenoun
an evening party or social gathering
soil1 of 3verb
to make or become dirty
soil2 of 3noun
soilage, stain
moral soilage : corruption
something that soils or pollutes
soil3 of 3noun
firm land : earth
the loose surface material of the earth in which plants grow
country entry 1 sense 2b, land
an environment in which something may take root and grow
slums are fertile soil for crime
soillessadjective
carried on without soil
soilless agriculture
soil1 of 3verb
to make or become dirty
soil2 of 3noun
soilage, stain
moral soilage : corruption
something that soils or pollutes
soil3 of 3noun
firm land : earth
the loose surface material of the earth in which plants grow
country entry 1 sense 2b, land
an environment in which something may take root and grow
slums are fertile soil for crime
soil1 of 3verb
to make or become dirty
soil2 of 3noun
soilage, stain
moral soilage : corruption
something that soils or pollutes
soil3 of 3noun
firm land : earth
the loose surface material of the earth in which plants grow
country entry 1 sense 2b, land
an environment in which something may take root and grow
slums are fertile soil for crime
soggyadjective
heavy with water or moisture : soaked, sodden
softynoun
weakling
a silly or sentimental person
1 But Ms.Gottlieb, a self-described softy, has decided that he stays.
但自认多愁善感的她还是决定留下这个园丁。
2 That picture has shifted over the seasons; sometimes he’s a cold gangster, sometimes a cruel patriarch, sometimes an old softy and world’s greatest grandpa, overwhelmed with awe for a natural world greater than himself.
3 Drake, the onetime softy, is not choosing the easy route.
4 Hardened, tattooed Saira — whose relationship with her family frayed after the early death of her sister — is willing to mentor Amina when even the group’s resident softy, bassist Bisma (Faith Omole), is ready to give up on the talented newbie.
5 He would push McCartney, the softy who sang “Silly Love Songs.”
6 Mr. Yazbeck, the softy: “I told my wife I loved her before I kissed her.”
7 Lindsay is a softy at heart!
8 Mom’s a softy when it comes to the Nelsons’ land.
9 According to Cox's no-nonsense criteria I'm a kind of existential softy, in sympathy with Alan Bennett, who classified himself as being on the political "soft centre".
10 Another post teaches a mycological lesson, pairing mushrooms with astrological signs: Scorpios are reishi mushrooms, because they are “secretly a softy” — a nod to the polypore mushroom’s porous underside.
11 And I’m a big softy, so I wanted to check him out.
12 Still, that’s Kleist for you: neither a Romantic softy nor an Enlightenment prig.
13 It was also full of triplets, proving perhaps that for all the stern exterior, Andriessen is really an old softy at heart.
14 He said he either spoke too softy for the mic to hear or failed to utter what he was thinking: “They’ll all think I killed them all, of course.”
15 But it soon became clear that Uncle Joe was a softy.
16 For all her professional bravado, among those closest to her, Silverman is known as a sentimental softy.
17 But I guess you don’t become Dr. Phil by being a softy.
18 But here again my inner softy counsels caution.
19 Ms. Spencer is one of the stars of a new Fox series, “Red Band Society,” albeit in a more predictable, pre-Rhimesian role: a bossy, sharp-tongued hospital nurse who is a softy at heart.
20 One woman, no softy, had been a runner in pre-state Palestine for the underground paramilitary outfit known as the Stern Gang.
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3 蠢蛋
4 傻瓜
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6 心肠软的人
7 软弱的人