Softie
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English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]Softie (plural Softies)
- (business slang) A Microsoft employee.
- Synonym: Microsofter
- 2008, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post-Gates Era, John Wiley & Sons, page 18:
- Many Softies believed and continue to believe that Microsoft employees are smarter than everyone else and that the company is a magnet for the brightest, most ambitious tech and marketing experts […]
German
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[edit]Noun
[edit]Softie m (strong, genitive Softies, plural Softies)
- (somewhat dated, sometimes derogatory) softy (weak or sentimental man)
- Antonym: Macho
- 2015 February 12, Verena Friederike Hasel, “Ausgerechnet die Liebe”, in Die Zeit[1]:
- Auch Parship entwickelt der Psychologe laufend weiter. Ein bisschen ist die Plattform wie ein Seismograf gesellschaftlicher Veränderungen. "Als wir anfingen, haben sich die Frauen Softies gewünscht. Die Frau von heute will den starken Mann an ihrer Seite—und vermännlicht sich selbst, um mit ihm auf gleicher Höhe zu sein."
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Declension
[edit]Declension of Softie [masculine, strong]
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