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n. Informal A person regarded as weak or sentimental.

n. Informal A person who finds it difficult to punish or be strict.

n. A weak or sentimental person.

n. Somebody who finds it difficult to scold or punish.

n. A software expert who is ignorant of the workings of hardware.

n. A soft or silly person. Also softie.

n. a person who is weak and excessively sentimental

"The softy was a man who could hoard his hatred and vengeance, hiding the bad passions away in the dark corners of his poor shattered mind, and bringing them out in the dead of the night to "kiss and talk to," as the Moor's wife kissed and conversed with the strawberry-embroidered cambric."

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