a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
n. a gentle person; a very agreeable person. : He shouldn't give you much trouble. He's such a softie.
n. a weakling; a coward. : He's too much of a softie to fight back.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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softy definition
(IBM) Hardware hackers' term for a software expert who is largely ignorant of the mysteries of hardware. (1995-01-11)