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Definition: Soft Soap |
Soft SoapNoun1. Flattery designed to gain favor. 2. A soft (or liquid) soap made from vegetable oils; used in certain skin diseases. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemical Industry | Soap made with potassium hydroxide or potassium carbonate. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Soft Soap Flattery, complimentary words. (See Soapy Sam .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: Soft SoapSynonyms: blarney (n), coaxing (n), green soap (n), sweet talk (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Flattery | Incense, honeyed words, flummery; bunkum, buncombe; blarney, placebo, butter; soft soap, soft sawder; rose water. |
Oil | Noun: oil, fat, butter, cream, grease, tallow, suet, lard, dripping exunge, blubber; glycerin, stearin, elaine, oleagine; soap; soft soap, wax, cerement; paraffin, spermaceti, adipocere; petroleum, mineral, mineral rock, mineral crystal, mineral oil; vegetable oil, colza oil, olive oil, salad oil, linseed oil, cottonseed oil, soybean oil, nut oil; animal oil, neat's foot oil, train oil; ointment, unguent, liniment; aceite, amole, Barbados tar; fusel oil, grain oil, rape oil, seneca oil; hydrate |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
soft soap | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "soft soap"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | sapun i lëngshëm, lajkatoj (adulate, Blandish, blarney, butter up, cajole, coax, flatter, make up to, palaver, play up to, smarm, wheedle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تملق (adulate, blandish, blarney, butter, butter up, cajole, cajolery, coax, coaxing, compliment, con, court, cringe, curry favor with, curry favour with, fawn, flatter, flattery, incense, ingratiate oneself, insinuation, kowtow, lick his boots, make, mawkish, oiliness, palaver, servilism, soap, subservience, suck up to, sweet talk, taffy, toady, wheedle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | течен сапун, ласкателство (adulation, blandishment, blarney, cajolement, cajolery, flattery, lip salve, oil, palaver, soap, soft sawder, sweet talk, taffy, toadyism), лаская (adulate, beslaver, blarney, cajole, carny, coax, flatter, incense, jolly, palaver, sawder, soap, sugar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sladké řeèièky. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | bloed saebe, blødgørende sæbe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zachte zeep. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | suopa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | savon mou, flatterie, flatter (soothe), flagornerie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schmierseife. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κολακεύω (adulate, blarney, bootlick, butter up, cajole, cringe, curry, fawn, fawn over, flatter, lick his boots, suck up), μαλακό σαπούνι. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kenõszappan, hízeleg valakinek (adulate, wheedle), folyékony szappan (liquid soap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sapone verde, sapone nero, sapone molle, sapone di potassa, lisciare (flatter, shave, sleek, slick, slick down, smooth, smooth out), adulare (adulate, curry, fawn, flatter, wheedle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oftsay oapsay sabão mole, sabão de potassa. (various references) sãpun moale. (various references) умасливать (butter up, cajole), жидкое мыло. (various references) laskati (adulate, blarney, butter up, flatter), laskanje (blandishment, blarney, eyewash, flattery, flatting, lipsalve). (various references) lisonja (blarney, compliment, flattery), jabón blando, dar coba a (blarney, butter up), coba (applesauce, blarney, taffy). (various references) såpa (soap). (various references) yağcılık yapma (oil), pohpohlama (adulation, flattery, incense, palaver, rose water, sugarplum), arap sabunu (yellow soap). (various references) мити рідким милом, лестити (adulate, bootlick, cajole, fawn on, flatter, honey, oil one's tongue, palp, sugar). (various references) lời xoa dịu, lời phủ dụ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-o-o-p-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: fatsos, softas, spoofs, stoops. | |
-3 letters: afoot, fasts, fatso, foots, fossa, oasts, pasts, poofs, posts, psoas, soaps, sofas, softa, softs, soots, spats, spoof, spots, stoas, stoop, stops, topos. | |
-4 letters: asps, atop, fast, fats, foot, fops, foss, oafs, oast, oats, oops, oots, opts, ossa, pass, past, pats, poof, post, pots, psst, saps, soap, sofa, soft. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-o-o-p-s-s-t" | |
+4 letters: photoflashes, professorate, professoriat, teaspoonfuls, teaspoonsful. | |
+5 letters: professorates, professoriate, professoriats. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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