Definition of "softling" []

• A soft, effeminate person; a voluptuary. (noun)

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• "He was not an easy man to the tenants, but I did not particularly want a softling, you understand."
• "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."
• "And nip each softling of a wee white mouse, {10} ` Weke, weke ', that's crept to keep him company!"