Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sybarite; a voluptuary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A soft, effeminate person; a voluptuary.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic A
soft ,effeminate person; avoluptuary .
Etymologies
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soft + -ling
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Examples
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He was not an easy man to the tenants, but I did not particularly want a softling, you understand.
Antony Gray,—Gardener Leslie Moore
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If he was the sort of softling who could not stand up under life's discipline because it was uncomfortable or unpleasant, then no power on earth could hold him to accomplishment.
Bambi Marjorie Benton Cooke 1898
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And nip each softling of a wee white mouse, {10} ` Weke, weke ', that's crept to keep him company!
An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry Hiram Corson 1869
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