soft shoe
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soft shoe
noun softshoe · soft-shoe
- A kind of tap dancing performed in soft-soled shoes, popular in vaudeville. Between Mr. O'Connor and Mr. Newley there's a delightful exhibition of the dances and their origin dating gack a few hundred years, from the clog to the buck, the wing, and the buck and wing, and on to the old soft shoe and more.
- A speech, explanation, sales pitch, or other set of remarks delivered in a restrained or conciliatory manner in order to persuade, distract, or otherwise influence someone. Is the salesman's soft-shoe appropriate in a time of national mourning?
adjective softshoe · soft-shoe
- Of or pertaining to this kind of dancing.
- Casual, low-key, easy-going. Occasionally criticized for his soft-shoe approach (e.g., he urged the President to avoid a public squabble with Joe McCarthy), Persons nonetheless won many a legislator over to the Administration side.
verb soft shoes · soft shoeing · soft shoed · softshoe · soft-shoe
- To perform a dance of this kind.
Talk about this word "soft shoe." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/soft%20shoe. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. soft shoe. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/soft%20shoe "soft shoe." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/soft%20shoe.
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@misc{soft_shoe_2026,
title = {soft shoe},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/soft%20shoe},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
