soft sawder | Idiomator

Meaning: (obsolete,idiomatic)Cajolingorflattery.1836,Thomas Haliburton, "The Trotting Horse" (1836) — first usageIf she goes to act ugly, I'll give her a dose of "soft sawder"; that will take the frown out of herfrontispiece...!1850,Thomas Carlyle, “The present time”, inLatter-Day Pamphlets:A sorrowful spectacle to men of reflection, duringthe time he lasted, that poor M. de Lamartine; with nothing in him but melodious wind andsoft sawder, which he and others took for something divine and not diabolic!1863,Tom Taylor,The Ticket-of-Leave Man:How the old boy swallowed mysoft sawderandBrummagemnotes!

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