10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOFT SAWDER»
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Easy to 'roll in the hay': roll, an act of co'ition from the male point of view, comes
ex US. soft sawder, n. See sawder.~2. V.t. and i. (gen. hyphenated): to flatter: coll.
: 1843 (Haliburton); Hickie's Aris— tophanes, 1853 (OED). Ex soft sawder, n.
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Cassell's Dictionary of Slang
(1). soft sawder n. (also sawder, sawder to order, soft corn) |mid-19C+] flattery. [
SE (soft) solder, a pliable form of solder, made of tin and lead) soft sawder v. (
also sawder) [mid- 19C- 1900s] to flatter. [SOFT SAWDER n.J soft-sawderer n.
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: Rea
'I thought everyhody know'd as a Sawbones was a Surgeon.' 1849-50. Thackerav
, Pendennis, it. xviii. She has taken on with another chap —another sawbones.
Sawder (or Soft-sawder), subs. (common). — Soft speech; blarnev {q.v.). 1853.
John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley, 1903
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Dictionary of Americanisms, 2nd ed. enlarged
The more common terms are " soft sawder " and " soft soap," which see. I allowed
that the old man was pretty green, or he 'd never swallowed all the toft corn I fed
him on. — Major Bunkum, Spirit of the Times. Softliness. Manner of one who ...
John Russell Bartlett, 1877
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Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases ...
The more common terms are " soft sawder " and " soft soap," which sec. I allowed
that the old man was pretty green, or ho 'd never swallowed all the soft- corn I fed
him on. — Maj. Bunkum. Spirit of the Times. SOFT SAWDER, i. e. soft solder.
John Russell Bartlett, 1859
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ... ...
You've got SOFT SAWDER enough. 1863. READE, Ha.rd Cask, xli. She sent in a
note explaining who she was, with a bit of SOFT SAWDER. 1866. ELIOT, Felix
Holt, xxi. My Lord Jermyn seems to have his insolence as ready as his SOFT ...
John Stephen Farmer, Henley, 1903
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
soft sawder to order . An elaboration of soft SAWDER, n.: 1883, Entr'Acte, 7 April;
ob. 2. Ware records the sense 'clothes made to order' and implies existence ca
1883–1900. soft-sawderer . A flatterer: coll: mid-C. 19–20. EX SOFT-SAWDER. cf.
Eric Partridge, Jacqueline Simpson, 1973
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Sam Slick's wise saws and modern instances: or, What he ...
There is the sugar- plumb,' sais I, ' and whistle for the child, the feather to tickle
the vanity of a woman, and the soft-sawder brush for the men, and arter all they
are the vainest of the two. There is a private spring to everyone's affection ' if you
...
Thomas Chandler Haliburton, 1853
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, ...
We must do our publishers the justice to say, that the first periodical in Great
Britain which noticed Mr Haliburton's works was Chambers'! Journal. Soft Sawder
and Human Na In the course of a journey which Mr Slick performs in company
with ...
Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers, 1893
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Americanisms--old & New
An alternative of soft- soap ; soft-sawder ; i.e., flattery. Soft crab. — The crab,
otherwise known as the shedder, and so named when shedding its outer shell.
Softliness. — An action is done with softliness when quietly accomplished ;
without ...
John Stephen Farmer, 1889
