Meaning of soft sawder | Babel Free

Definitions

Cajoling or flattery.

idiomatic, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“1836, Thomas Haliburton, "The Trotting Horse" (1836) — first usage If she goes to act ugly, I'll give her a dose of "soft sawder"; that will take the frown out of her frontispiece...!”

“A sorrowful spectacle to men of reflection, during the time he lasted, that poor M. de Lamartine; with nothing in him but melodious wind and soft sawder, which he and others took for something divine and not diabolic!”

“How the old boy swallowed my soft sawder and Brummagem notes!”

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