Today’s Best Word Ever is soft sawder: blarney, flattery.
A noun, soft + sawder “solder” (obsolete), from Middle English soudure, from Anglo-French souder “to solder,” from Latin solidare “to make solid,” from solidus “solid.” First known use, 14th c.
“Enough of your soft sawder,” the sitter said to the dawdling kids.
“I’m no biscuit to butter up—time to set this room in order!”