Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—S

Soft

He's a soft—half a fool. The word originally meant effeminate, unmanly; hence soft in brains, silly, etc., “soft in courage.” (3 Henry VI., ii. 2.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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