See soft sawder on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "Phonetic spelling of soft solder; that is, solder that melts at a lower temperature. Coined by Thomas Haliburton in the short story \"The Trotting Horse\" (1836). Popular in the 19th century, but out of common use by 1950.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "-" }, "expansion": "soft sawder (uncountable)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "text": "1836, Thomas Haliburton, \"The Trotting Horse\" (1836) — first usage\nIf she goes to act ugly, I'll give her a dose of \"soft sawder\"; that will take the frown out of her frontispiece...!" }, { "ref": "1850, Thomas Carlyle, “The present time”, in Latter-Day Pamphlets:", "text": "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!", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1863, Tom Taylor, The Ticket-of-Leave Man:", "text": "How the old boy swallowed my soft sawder and Brummagem notes!", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Cajoling or flattery." ], "id": "en-soft_sawder-en-noun-zlxmga3A", "links": [ [ "Cajoling", "cajole" ], [ "flattery", "flattery" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(obsolete, idiomatic) Cajoling or flattery." ], "related": [ { "word": "soft soap" }, { "word": "butter up" }, { "word": "sweet-talk" } ], "tags": [ "idiomatic", "obsolete", "uncountable" ] } ], "word": "soft sawder" }
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