softiesoft‧ie, softy /ˈsɒfti $ ˈsɒːf-/ noun [countable]

- How could you take an old softie like Henry and twist him around-your finger that way?
- Robinson, an old softie, asked if Gruoch loved Macbeth.
- Some New Age softie who babbled about using the right side of his or her brain.
- Such a big strong bloke, and such a softie.
- The Baden Powell boys say we're no softies.
- The white stubble on his fleshless jaw was a reproach to my twenty-four years and suddenly I felt an inadequate city-bred softie.
nounsoftnesssoftenersoftie/softyadjectivesoftverbsoftenadverbsoftly