soft soap

 

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 spelling of soft-soap (“flattery, persuasion”).

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

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

1. Alternative spelling of soft-soap

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