soft soap

See also: softsoap and soft-soap

English

Noun

soft soap (countable and uncountable, plural soft soaps)

Jellyish soap made by cooking natural oils and fats with potassium hydroxide
any fluid or semifluid soap
Alternative spelling of soft-soap (“flattery, persuasion”)

Synonyms

(soap made with potassium): green soap, potassium soap

Translations

soap made with potassium

Finnish: suopa (fi)
French: savon noir (fr) m
Portuguese: sabão mole, sabão de potassa
Welsh: sebon meddal m

fluid or semifluid soap

Finnish: nestesaippua (fi)
Portuguese: sabão líquido
Russian: жидкое мыло n (židkoje mylo)

soft-soap — see soft-soap

Verb

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

Alternative spelling of soft-soap

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