Softy.

“She were but a softy after all.”—Mrs. Gaskell: Sylvia’s Lovers, chap. xv.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Socrates
Sodom
Soffarides
Soft
Soft Sawder
Soft Soap
Soft as Soap
Soft Fire makes Sweet Malt (A)
Soft Words Butter no Parsnips
Softly
Softy
Soho!
Soi-disant (French)
Soil
Soil the Milk before Using It
Sojourn
Sol (Latin)
Sol-fa
Solan Goose
Solano
Solatium (A)