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Translingual
Symbol
toy
See also
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Topoiyo terms
English
Etymology
Inherited 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-West Germanic *tiugī̆, *teug, from Proto-Germanic *teugą (“stuff, matter, device, gear, lever”, literally “that which is drawn or pulled”), from Proto-Germanic *teuhaną (“to lead, bring, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”).
Cognate with German Zeug (“stuff”), Danish tøj (“stuff”), Norwegian tøy (“equipment, riggings, stuff”). Related to tug, tow, taw, tew.
Pronunciation
Noun
toy (plural toys)
- Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child. [from 16th c.]
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:toy
- A grown man like him does not play with a child’s toy.
- A thing of little importance or value; a trifle. [from 16th c.]
- c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene ii:
- tis a pretie toy to be a Poet.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
- he had deflowered the abbess, and as many besides of the nuns as he could, and leaves him withal rings, jewels, girdles, and such toys to give them still, when they came to visit him.
- A simple, light piece of music, written especially for the virginal. [16th–17th c.]
- Ellipsis of toy dog.
- 1968, Jeff Griffen, The Poodle Book, page 36:
- Since standards are large dogs, they grow much more rapidly than miniatures and toys, which means that they require more supplements.
- (obsolete) Love play, amorous dalliance; fondling. [16th–18th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- 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.
- (obsolete) A vague fancy, a ridiculous idea or notion; a whim. [16th–17th c.]
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], chapter 3, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 1, section 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 […] .
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 50:
- To fly about playing their wanton toys.
- c. 1608–1610, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “Philaster: Or, Love Lies a Bleeding”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- What if a toy take 'em i'th' heels now, and they all run away.
- 1612, Michael Drayton, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC:
- Nor light and idle toys my lines may vainly swell.
- (obsolete) An old story; a silly tale.
- c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
- More strange than true: I never may believe these antique fables, nor these fairy toys.
- (Scotland, archaic) A headdress of linen or wool that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by elderly women of the lower classes.
- Synonym: toy mutch
- 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
- Having, moreover, put on her clean toy, rokelay, and scarlet plaid.
- (euphemistic) Ellipsis of sex toy.
- (graffiti 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.
- 2022 August 31, Babak Anvari, Namsi Khan, 15:22 from the start, in Babak Anvari, director, I Came By (film), spoken by Rave (Sean Rey):
- DAVE COLUMBO (played by Gabriel Bisset-Smith): So, Rave, you’re a graffiti artist. RAVE: Writer. Graffiti writer. There’s a difference. DAVE COLUMBO: What do you make of “I Came By”(the practice of robbing rich people’s houses and tagging them with the words “I came by”)? RAVE: I think whoever done it is a fucking toy. I heard it’s not the same crew anymore.
- (slang, MLE) A gun.
- Synonym: bit (slang, MLE)
- 2013 December 23, Stephen Reynolds, 48:02 from the start, in Stephen Reynolds, director, Vendetta (film), spoken by Ronnie (Nick Nevern):
- RONNIE: Now, that is a SIG Sauer P226. JIMMY VICKERS (played by Danny Dyer): Yeah, takes 19 in the clip. It’s effective up to 50 metres. RONNIE: Man knows his toys.
- (slang, euphemistic, dated) The penis.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:penis
- (slang, euphemistic, dated) The vagina.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina
- (slang, dated) A watch.
- a toy and tackle (a watch and chain)
- 1879 October, “Autobiography of a Thief in Thieves' Language”, in Macmillan's Magazine, volume 40, number 240, page 505, column 2:
- Me and the other one went by ourselves; he was very tricky (clever) at getting a poge or a toy, but he would not touch toys because we was afraid of being turned over (searched).
- 1896, Arthur Morrison, A Child of the Jago, London: Methuen & Co., page 239:
- And as it commonly took three men to secure a single watch in the open street—one to 'front,' one to snatch, and a third to take from the snatcher—the gains of the toy-getting trade were poor, except to the fence.
- (slang, dated) A small jar (about an inch across) used to hold prepared opium.
- 1915, George Bronson Howard, God's Man, Indianapolis, I.N.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, page 127:
- Sonia, with a woman's dainty deftness in small matters, dug out the chocolate-colored opium from a little white jar, a "toey," cooking it over a steady flame of peanut-oil.
- 1928, May Churchill Sharpe [i.e., Chicago May], Chicago May: Her Story, New York, N.Y.: The Macaulay Company, pages 159–160:
- Chang was always on call, to go to Americans with "toys" of hop, ready to "cook," if desired by his patrons.
- 1946, Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, pages 253–254:
- I called up Mike and pleaded with him to bring me the joint (the layout) and put me out of my misery. Instead he came up with some medicine, a patent product called Wampoole's Mixture that was supposed to help you taper off the stuff. What you did was, you took a toy (a tin) of hop and shook it up with this medicine in a bottle and kept taking it every day. As the bottle got empty you kept filling it up again with more of the medicine, so the amount of hop kept going down and finally you were taking practically straight medicine.
- (slang, dated) A small ball of opium (about the size of a pea).
- 1989, David Courtwright, Herman Joseph, Don Des Jarlais, quoting Lao Pai-Hsing (translated interview), Addicts Who Survived: An Oral History of Narcotic Use in America, 1923-1965, Knoxville, T.N.: The University of Tennessee Press, →ISBN, page 84:
- I smoked a toy a day, same as on the ship. You could buy a small toy for two dollars.
- 1991, Jimmy Breslin, Damon Runyon, New York, N.Y.: Ticknor & Fields, →ISBN, pages 176–177:
- The act at the Alamo began with Jackson sprawled on a chair and pretending to be smoking opium. He used a broom handle with a tin cup at the end as if he were cooking opium. There wasn't a patron in the joint who had to ask what they were pretending to do. When Jackson took small balls of wax and said he was making "toys," everybody laughed.
Derived terms
- Amertoy
- boy-toy
- boytoy
- boy toy
- chew toy
- cuddly toy
- English toy spaniel
- English Toy Terrier
- entertoyment
- executive toy
- fidget toy
- fuck toy, fuck-toy, fucktoy
- love toy
- playtoy
- plush toy
- pool toy
- rapetoy
- rose toy
- Russian Toy
- Russian Toy Terrier
- sex toy
- soft toy
- stim toy
- stuffed toy
- tick and toy
- toybox
- toy-boy
- toy boy
- toyboy
- toy car
- toychest
- toy collie
- toy currency
- toy dog
- toydom
- toy drive
- toyer
- toyetic
- toy fox terrier
- toyful
- Toyger
- toyhouse
- toyish
- toykind
- Toyland
- toyless
- toylike
- toyline
- toy line
- toymaker
- toymaking
- toyman
- toy model
- toyous
- toy poodle
- toy problem
- toyseller
- toyshop
- toy shop
- toys in the attic
- toy soldier
- toysome
- toystore
- toy theory
- Toytown
- toy with
- toywoman
- toywort
- wind-up toy
Translations
something to play with
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Verb
toy (third-person singular simple present toys, present participle toying, simple past and past participle toyed)
- (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.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 24, page 246:
- His [Hercules's] Lyons skin chaungd to a pall of gold, / In which forgetting warres, he onely ioyed / In combats of ſweet loue, and with his miſtreſſe toyed.
- (intransitive) To ponder or consider.
- I have been toying with the idea of starting my own business.
- (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.
Translations
to play with
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to ponder or consider
Adjective
toy (comparative more toy, superlative most toy)
- (chiefly attributive) Impractical or unsuitable for real-world use, due to being unrealistically small or simple.
See also
References
- “toy n.1”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
- “toy n.2”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
Anagrams
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Azerbaijani
Etymology
Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish طوی (toy), from Proto-Turkic *toy (“feast”). Compare Turkish toy, Gagauz toy.
Pronunciation
Noun
toy (definite accusative toyu, plural toylar)
Declension
Further reading
- “toy” in Obastan.com.
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Crimean Tatar
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *toy (“feast”).
Noun
toy
Declension
References
Faroese
Etymology
From Danish tøj, from Middle Low German tüg.
Pronunciation
Noun
toy n (genitive singular toys, uncountable)
Declension
Gagauz
Alternative forms
- toi (pre-1950's spelling)
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish طوی (toy, doy), from Proto-Turkic *toy. Compare Turkish toy, Azerbaijani toy.
Noun
toy (definite accusative toyu, plural toylar)
Declension
Further reading
- Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “toy”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 162
- Çebotar, Petri; Dron, Ion (2002), “toy”, in Gagauzça-Rusça-Romınca Sözlük [Gagauz-Russian-Romanian Dictionary], Chișinău: Pontos Press, →ISBN, page 667
- N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “той”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 471
Etymology 2
Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish طوی (toy), from Proto-Turkic *tod. Compare Turkish toy.
Noun
toy (definite accusative toyu, plural toylar)
Declension
Further reading
- Ciachir, Mihail (1938), “toi”, in Dicționar gagauzo (tiurco)–român pentru gagauzii din Basarabia (in Romanian), Chișinău, page 95
- Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “toy”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 162
- Çebotar, Petri; Dron, Ion (2002), “toy”, in Gagauzça-Rusça-Romınca Sözlük [Gagauz-Russian-Romanian Dictionary], Chișinău: Pontos Press, →ISBN, page 667
- N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “той”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 471
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Ilocano
Pronunciation
Determiner
toy
- informal spelling of 'toy
Khalaj
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *toy. Cognate with Azerbaijani toy, Turkish toy, Uyghur توي (toy).
Pronunciation
Noun
toy (definite accusative toyı, plural toylar)
Declension
References
- Doerfer, Gerhard (1987), Lexik und Sprachgeographie des Chaladsch [Lexicon and Language Geography of Khalaj] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, →ISBN
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Middle French
Alternative forms
Pronoun
toy
Synonyms
- (plural or polite singular): vous
Related terms
Spanish
Verb
toy
- (colloquial) apheretic form of estoy
Turkish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish طوی, from Old Anatolian Turkish طوی (toy, doy), from Proto-Turkic *tod. Compare Gagauz toy.
Adjective
toy (comparative daha toy, superlative en toy)
- immature, naive, especially due to one's young age
- amateur, unexperienced, especially due to one's young age
- Synonyms: acemi, deneyimsiz, amatör
Declension
For negative forms, use the appropriate form of değil.
Noun
toy (definite accusative toyu, plural toylar)
- great bustard; Otis tarda
- (dialectal) alternative form of tay
Declension
Derived terms
- toygiller
Related terms
Etymology 2
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish طوی, from Old Anatolian Turkish طوی (toy, doy), from Proto-Turkic *toy. Compare Azerbaijani toy, Gagauz toy.
Noun
toy (definite accusative toyu, plural toylar)(dated or dialectal)
Declension
Further reading
- “toy”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “toy1”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “طوی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1264
- “toy”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982
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Uzbek
Noun
toy (plural toylar)
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