"Don't mind Alfy, ma'am; she always did have to be the middle of things," begged the lad, overcoming his own shyness rather than have that beautiful lady think he was a "softie" who liked kissing girls.
"Dorothy on a Ranch"
Evelyn Raymond
Girls, we noticed, employed this "softie" in silly games of their own, trying whether they could make it rebound a hundred times from the ground, but we had no doubt about its proper use in the purposes of Creation.
"Young Barbarians"
Ian Maclaren
What d'you think, softie.
"Men, Women and Guns"
H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile