soft soap

See also: softsoap and soft-soap

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Noun

soft soap (countable and uncountable, plural soft soaps)

  1. Any jellyish soap made by cooking natural oils and fats with potassium hydroxide.
  2. Any fluid or semifluid soap.
    Hyponym: liquid soap
    Coordinate term: bar soap
  3. Alternative form of soft-soap (“flattery, persuasion”).

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soft soap (third-person singular simple present soft soaps, present participle soft soaping, simple past and past participle soft soaped)

  1. Alternative form of soft-soap.

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