"soothmoother" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "A reference to the south mouth of Lerwick Harbour, the main entry point to the Shetland Isles.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "soothmoothers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "soothmoother (plural soothmoothers)",
      "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": "Orkney English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Shetland English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1980, Marsha Elizabeth Renwanz, From crofters to Shetlanders",
          "text": "Several of my soothmoother informants pointed out that the Shetlands were not the only islands to have been visited by the Vikings.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1983, William Reginald Mitchell, Birdwatch Around Scotland, page 93",
          "text": "I was a 'soothmoother', arriving in Lerwick from the south.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1985, Susan A. Knox, The making of the Shetland landscape, page 88",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987, Anthony Paul Cohen, Whalsay: Symbol, Segment, and Boundary in a Shetland Island Community",
          "text": "But in Whalsay his distance from those bereaved has an added dimension, for he is an outsider, a soothmoother.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Jim Hewitson, Clinging to the Edge: Journals from an Orkney Island, page 41",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Ann Cleeves, Dead Water",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An outsider; Someone who is not native to the isles, especially someone from the south."
      ],
      "id": "en-soothmoother-en-noun-KKmHA1nz",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Shetland, Orkney) An outsider; Someone who is not native to the isles, especially someone from the south."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Orkney",
        "Shetland"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "soothmoother"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "A reference to the south mouth of Lerwick Harbour, the main entry point to the Shetland Isles.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "soothmoothers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "soothmoother (plural soothmoothers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Orkney English",
        "Shetland English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1980, Marsha Elizabeth Renwanz, From crofters to Shetlanders",
          "text": "Several of my soothmoother informants pointed out that the Shetlands were not the only islands to have been visited by the Vikings.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1983, William Reginald Mitchell, Birdwatch Around Scotland, page 93",
          "text": "I was a 'soothmoother', arriving in Lerwick from the south.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1985, Susan A. Knox, The making of the Shetland landscape, page 88",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987, Anthony Paul Cohen, Whalsay: Symbol, Segment, and Boundary in a Shetland Island Community",
          "text": "But in Whalsay his distance from those bereaved has an added dimension, for he is an outsider, a soothmoother.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Jim Hewitson, Clinging to the Edge: Journals from an Orkney Island, page 41",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Ann Cleeves, Dead Water",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An outsider; Someone who is not native to the isles, especially someone from the south."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Shetland, Orkney) An outsider; Someone who is not native to the isles, especially someone from the south."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Orkney",
        "Shetland"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "soothmoother"
}