{"def":{"short":"soft, i.e., fine (clothing); figuratively, a catamite","long":["soft, soft to the touch","metaphorically in a bad sense",["effeminate",["of a catamite","of a boy kept for homosexual relations with a man","of a male who submits his body to unnatural lewdness","of a male prostitute"]]]},"deriv":"of uncertain affinity","pronun":{"ipa":"mɑ.lɑˈkos","ipa_mod":"mɑ.lɑˈkows","sbl":"malakos","dic":"ma-la-KOSE","dic_mod":"ma-la-KOSE"}}