toy

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See also: Toy, toþ, tøy, -tøy, toý, and toʻy

English

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 *teugą (“stuff, matter, device", literally "that which is drawn”), from Proto-Germanic *teuhaną (“to lead, bring, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”). Cognate with German Spielzeug (“toy”), Danish legetøj (“play-thing, toy”). Related to tug, tow.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɔɪ/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔɪ

Noun

toy (plural toys)

  1. Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child. [from 16th c.]
    A grown man does not play with a child’s toy.
  2. A thing of little importance or value; a trifle. [from 16th c.]
    • (Can we date this quote by Abr. Abbot and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      They exchange for knives, glasses, and such toys, great abundance of gold and pearl.
  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.]
    • Template:RQ:RBrtn AntmyMlncly, 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 […].
    • (Can we date this quote by Spenser and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      To fly about playing their wanton toys.
    • (Can we date this quote by Beaumont and Fletcher and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      What if a toy take 'em in the heels now, and they all run away.
    • (Can we date this quote by Drayton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Nor light and idle toys my lines may vainly swell.
  6. (slang, derogatory) An inferior graffiti artist.
    • 2009, Gregory J. Snyder, Graffiti Lives: Beyond the Tag in New York's Urban Underground (page 40)
      It is incorrect to say that toys tag and masters piece; toys just do bad tags, bad throw-ups, and bad pieces.
    • 2011, Adam Melnyk, Visual Orgasm: The Early Years of Canadian Graffiti (page 45)
      I was a toy until I met Sear, who moved here from Toronto and showed me the book Subway Art.
  7. (obsolete) An old story; a silly tale.
  8. (Scotland, archaic) A headdress of linen or wool that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by old women of the lower classes; called also toy mutch.
    • (Can we date this quote by Sir Walter Scott and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Having, moreover, put on her clean toy, rokelay, and scarlet plaid.

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Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To play (with) in an idle or desultory way.
    to toy with a piece of food on one’s plate
    Figo is toying with the English defence.
  2. (intransitive) To ponder or consider.
    I have been toying with the idea of starting my own business.
  3. (slang, transitive) To stimulate with a sex toy.
    • 2013, Jonathan Everest, Lady Loverly's Chattel
      He could see her hand go to her slit, and soon she was toying herself along, breathing heavily.

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Anagrams

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *toy (“feast”).

Pronunciation

Noun

toy (definite accusative toynu, plural toylar)

  1. wedding

Declension

Declension of toy
singular plural
nominative toy toylar
definite accusative toyu toyları
dative toya toylara
locative toyda toylarda
ablative toydan toylardan
definite genitive toyun toyların
Possessive forms of toy
nominative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) toyum toylarım
sənin (“your”) toyun toyların
onun (“his/her/its”) toyu toyları
bizim (“our”) toyumuz toylarımız
sizin (“your”) toyunuz toylarınız
onların (“their”) toyu or toyları toyları
accusative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) toyumu toylarımı
sənin (“your”) toyunu toylarını
onun (“his/her/its”) toyunu toylarını
bizim (“our”) toyumuzu toylarımızı
sizin (“your”) toyunuzu toylarınızı
onların (“their”) toyunu or toylarını toylarını
dative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) toyuma toylarıma
sənin (“your”) toyuna toylarına
onun (“his/her/its”) toyuna toylarına
bizim (“our”) toyumuza toylarımıza
sizin (“your”) toyunuza toylarınıza
onların (“their”) toyuna or toylarına toylarına
locative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) toyumda toylarımda
sənin (“your”) toyunda toylarında
onun (“his/her/its”) toyunda toylarında
bizim (“our”) toyumuzda toylarımızda
sizin (“your”) toyunuzda toylarınızda
onların (“their”) toyunda or toylarında toylarında
ablative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) toyumdan toylarımdan
sənin (“your”) toyundan toylarından
onun (“his/her/its”) toyundan toylarından
bizim (“our”) toyumuzdan toylarımızdan
sizin (“your”) toyunuzdan toylarınızdan
onların (“their”) toyundan or toylarından toylarından
genitive
singular plural
mənim (“my”) toyumun toylarımın
sənin (“your”) toyunun toylarının
onun (“his/her/its”) toyunun toylarının
bizim (“our”) toyumuzun toylarımızın
sizin (“your”) toyunuzun toylarınızın
onların (“their”) toyunun or toylarının toylarının

Crimean Tatar

Noun

toy

  1. wedding feast
  2. banquet

Faroese

Etymology

From Danish tøj, from Middle Low German tüg.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʰɔiː/, /tʰœiː/

Noun

toy n (genitive singular toys, uncountable)

  1. fabric

Declension

Declension of toy (singular only)
n3s singular
indefinite definite
nominative toy toyið
accusative toy toyið
dative toyi toyinum
genitive toys toysins

Middle French

Alternative forms

Pronoun

toy

  1. (in the singular, less formal) you

Synonyms

  • (plural or polite singular): vous

Turkish

Etymology

From Old Turkic.

Adjective

toy

  1. immature, naive
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