soother

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soother¹

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From sooth + -er.

adjective

  1. archaic, comparative comparative form of sooth: more sooth, truer.

soother²

  • /ˈsuðɚ/ US
  • [ˈsuːdɚ]

noun soothers

  1. One who, or that which, soothes.
  2. Canada, Ireland A pacifier; a plastic device that goes into a baby’s mouth, used to calm and quiet the baby. Customs earlier received a referral from a related organisation that suspected unsafe soother holders were being supplied on the market.

    Similar: binky, bink, bo-bo, comforter, dodie, dummy, nookie, paci, piece, pippy, soother

verb soothers · soothering · soothered

  1. To soothe. And two great big lovely big tears coursing down his cheeks. It was all no use soothering him with no, nono, baby, no and telling him about the geegee and where was the puffpuff but Ciss, always readywitted, gave him in his mouth the teat of the suckingbottle and the young heathen was quickly appeas

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@misc{soother_2026,
  title = {soother},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/soother},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}