| 单词 | soft-palmed |
| 释义 | > as lemmassoft-palmed soft-palmed adj. having soft palms, esp. as a result of not being required to undertake manual labour; (in early use figurative) gentle, pleasant; cf. soft-fingered adj., soft-handed adj. ΚΠ 1659 W. Chamberlayne Pharonnida iii. v. 249 No smooth stroke Of soft palmd flattery could ere provoke Sleep in her watchful Dragons. c1848 J. R. Lowell Uncoll. Poems (1950) 59 The soft palmed tradesman coming home at eve. 1978 Time 3 July 1/3 Hooray for higher food prices... The American farm worker and farmer have subsidized the American dinner table long enough... There will be the usual soft-palmed protesters. 2007 Sunday Express (Nexis) 25 Mar. 34 How would the sensitive, soft-palmed compilers of the OED..cope with drunken and unruly customers at 10 or 11 o'clock at night? < as lemmas |
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