Meaning of soothmoother | Babel Free

Definitions

An outsider; Someone who is not native to the isles, especially someone from the south.

Orkney, Shetland

Examples

“Several of my soothmoother informants pointed out that the Shetlands were not the only islands to have been visited by the Vikings.”

“I was a 'soothmoother', arriving in Lerwick from the south.”

“During the 1860s when Delting, North Unst and North Yell were divided, the Garth estate was managed by its factor, John Walker, a 'soothmoother' from Aberdeenshire.”

“But in Whalsay his distance from those bereaved has an added dimension, for he is an outsider, a soothmoother.”

“Here on Papay folk will speak slowly and sympathetically in a one-to-one conversation with a 'soothmoother', but if you're on the fringes of a pierhead debate about the price of cattle or the weather, then you'll soon be submerged beneath a fast-flowing terminological tidal wave.”

“She might be a soothmoother, but she lived in Shetland now, and she'd been good to Jimmy Perez after the business on Fair Isle.”

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