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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'soft sawder' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions soft sawder noun (uncountable) (obsolete) (idiom) cajole, Cajoling or flattery. "If she goes to act ugly, I'll give her a dose of ""; that will take the frown out of her frontispiece...!" —w:Thomas Haliburton, Thomas Haliburton, "The Trotting Horse" (1836) — first usage "How the old boy swallowed my and Brummagem notes!" —w:Tom Taylor, Tom Taylor, wikisource:The Ticket-of-Leave Man, The Ticket-of-Leave Man (1863) Etymology: Phonetic spelling of "soft solder"; that is, solder that melts at a lower temperature. Coined by w:Thomas Haliburton, Thomas Haliburton in the short story "The Trotting Horse" (1836). Popular in the 19th century, but out of common use by 1950.        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.allwords.com Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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