toy

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Middle English toye (“amorous play, piece of fun or entertainment”), probably from Middle Dutch toy, tuyg (“tools, apparatus, utensil, ornament”) as in Dutch speel-tuig (“play-thing, toy”), from Old Dutch *tiug, from Proto-Germanic *tiugijan (“stuff, matter, device", literally "that which is drawn”), from Proto-Germanic base *teuhanan (“to lead, bring, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *deuk- (“to pull, lead”). Cognate with German Spielzeug (“toy”), Danish legetøj (“play-thing, toy”). Related to tug, tow.

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[edit] Noun

toy (plural toys)

  1. Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child. [from 16th c.]
  2. A thing of little importance or value; a trifle. [from 16th c.]
  3. A simple, light piece of music, written especially for the virginal. [16th-17th c.]
  4. (obsolete) Love play, amorous dalliance; fondling. [16th-18th c.]
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.i:
      Then seemed him his Lady by him lay, / And to him playnd, how that false winged boy, / Her chast hart had subdewd, to learne Dame pleasures toy.
  5. (obsolete) A vague fancy, a ridiculous idea or notion; a whim. [16th-17th c.]
    • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, vol 1., III.i.2:
      Though they do talk with you, and seem to be otherwise employed, and to your thinking very intent and busy, still that toy runs in their mind, that fear, that suspicion, that abuse, that jealousy [...].

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Terms derived from toy (noun)

[edit] Translations

something to play with

[edit] Verb

toy (third-person singular simple present toys, present participle toying, simple past and past participle toyed)

  1. To play with, to mock
    Figo is toying with the English defence.
  2. To ponder or consider.
    I have been toying with the idea of starting my own business.

[edit] Translations

to play with, to mock
to ponder or consider

[edit] See also

[edit] Crimean Tatar

[edit] Noun

toy

  1. wedding feast
  2. banquet

[edit] Faroese

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: [tɔi], [tœi]

[edit] Noun

toy n. sg.

  1. clothes

[edit] Declension

n3s Singular
Indefinite Definite
Nominative toy toyið
Accusative toy toyið
Dative toyi toyinum
Genitive toys toysins

[edit] Middle French

[edit] Pronoun

toy

  1. (singular, less formal) you

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  • (plural or polite singular): vous

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[edit] Turkish

[edit] Etymology

From Old Turkic.

[edit] Adjective

toy

  1. immature, naive
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