softtack (softtak)

Soft wheaten bread, as distinguished from hardtack, or hard sea-bread or-biscuit. [Sailors' and soldiers' slang.] softwood (soft'wud), n. See Myrsine. softy (sôf'ti), n.; pl. softies (-tiz). [ Nancy were but a softy after all, for she left off doing her work in a proper manner. Mrs. Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers, xv. He is a kind of softie -all alive on one side of his brain and a noodle on the other. Mrs. Humphry Ward , Robert Elsmere, iii. sogl (sog), n. [Cf. Icel. söggr, dank, wet, saggi, moisture, wet, dampne ; prob. akin to sjūga = AS. sugan, sūcan, suck, AS. socian, E. soak: see soak.] A bog; quagmire.