soetjes, adverb
- Forms:
- Show more Also sootjes, suitjes, sutjes.
- Origin:
- AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, obsolete form of soetjies.
obs.
Softly, gently, quietly.
[1885 H. Rider Haggard King Solomon’s Mines 9It’s a stiff place, and I feel as though I were bogged up to the axle. But ‘sutjes, sutjes,’ as the Boers say (I’m sure I don’t know how they spell it), softly does it.]
Softly, gently, quietly.
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