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Soft-soap

Definition: Soft-soap

Soft-soap

Verb

1. Persuade someone through flattery.

2. Use flattering talk on somebody.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Date "soft-soap" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1917. (references)

Modern Translation: Soft-soap

Language		Translations for "soft-soap"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		软肥皂. (various references)

Hungarian		vki szája íze szerint beszél (to soft-soap), talpát nyalja (to lick sy's boots, to soft-soap), hízeleg (Blandish, butter up, flatter, nut, to cozy up to sy, to fawn upon, to flatter, to lay it on thick, to make fair weather, to smarm, to soft-soap, to stroke down, to suck up to sy, to sugar, to toady, to wheedle). (various references)

Korean		연약하 비누. (various references)

Pig Latin		oft-soapsay

Portuguese		lisonjear (beslobber, bespatter, blandish, butter, butter up, cajole, coax, cog, flatter, jolly, lackey, lacquey, palaver, wheedle), dar graxa a, adular (adulate, blandish, blarney, butter, butter up, cajole, fawn, flatter, palaver, wheedle). (various references)

Welsh		seboni (lather, soap). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Soft-soap

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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Alternative Orthography: Soft-soap

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 6F 66 74 2D 73 6F 61 70

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101111 01100110 01110100 00101101 01110011 01101111 01100001 01110000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#111 &#102 &#116 &#45 &#115 &#111 &#97 &#112

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006F 0066 0074 002D 0073 006F 0061 0070

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

538172861585816782

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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