Symbol

toyCategory:Translingual lemmas#TOYCategory:Translingual symbols#TOYCategory:Translingual terms with redundant script codes#TOYCategory:Translingual entries with incorrect language header#TOYCategory:Pages with entries#TOYCategory:Pages with 12 entries#TOY

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3Category:ISO 639-3 language code for Topoiyo.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Topoiyo terms

Etymology

Inherited from Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#TOYCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#TOY toye (“amorous play, piece of fun or entertainment”), probably from Middle Dutch toy, tuyg (“tools, apparatus, utensil, ornament”) as in Dutch speel-tuig (“plaything, toy”), from Old DutchCategory:English terms derived from Old Dutch#TOY *tiug, from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#TOY *tiugī̆, *teug, from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#TOY *teugą (“stuff, matter, device, gear, lever”, literally “that which is drawn or pulled”), from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#TOY *teuhaną (“to lead, bring, pull”), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#TOY *dewk- (“to pull, lead”).

Cognate with Dutch tuig (“thing”), German Zeug (“stuff”), Danish tøj (“stuff”), Icelandic tygi, Norwegian tøy (“equipment, riggings, stuff”), Swedish tyg (“cloth, textile, fabric”). Related to tug, tow, taw, tew.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: toi, IPA^(key): /tɔɪ/Category:English 1-syllable words#TOYCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#TOY

  • Audio (US):

    (file)

    Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#TOY
• (Dublin) IPA^(key): /taɪ/, /tɑɪ/Category:English 1-syllable words#TOYCategory:English 1-syllable words#TOYCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#TOY
• Rhymes: -ɔɪCategory:Rhymes:English/ɔɪ#TOYCategory:Rhymes:English/ɔɪ/1 syllable#TOY

Noun

Wikidata has a Lexeme related to:

toy (L10823)

toy (plural toys)Category:English lemmas#TOYCategory:English nouns#TOYCategory:English countable nouns#TOYCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#TOYCategory:Pages with entries#TOYCategory:Pages with 12 entries#TOY

1. 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.Category:English terms with usage examples#TOY

2. 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.

     Category:English terms with quotations#TOY

   • 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.

     Category:English terms with quotations#TOY

3. A simple, light piece of music, written especially for the virginal. [16th–17th c.]
4. Ellipsis of toy dogCategory:English ellipses#TOY.
   • 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.

     Category:English terms with quotations#TOY

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5. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#TOY) 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.

     Category:English terms with quotations#TOY

6. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#TOY) 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 […] .

     Category:English terms with quotations#TOY

   • 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.

     Category:English terms with quotations#TOY

   • 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.

     Category:English terms with quotations#TOY

   • 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.

     Category:English terms with quotations#TOY

7. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#TOY) 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.

     Category:English terms with quotations#TOY

8. (ScotlandCategory:Scottish English#TOY, archaicCategory:English terms with archaic senses#TOY) 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.

     Category:English terms with quotations#TOY

9. (euphemisticCategory:English euphemisms#TOY) Ellipsis of sex toyCategory:English ellipses#TOY.
10. (graffiti slangCategory:English graffiti slang#TOY, derogatoryCategory:English derogatory terms#TOY) 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.

      Category:English terms with quotations#TOY

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    • 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.

      Category:English terms with quotations#TOY

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    • 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.

      Category:English terms with quotations#TOY

11. (slangCategory:English slang#TOY, MLECategory:Multicultural London English#TOY) 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.

      Category:English terms with quotations#TOY

12. (slangCategory:English slang#TOY, euphemisticCategory:English euphemisms#TOY, datedCategory:English dated terms#TOY) The penis.

    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:penis

13. (slangCategory:English slang#TOY, euphemisticCategory:English euphemisms#TOY, datedCategory:English dated terms#TOY) The vagina.

    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina

15. (slangCategory:English slang#TOY, datedCategory:English dated terms#TOY) A watch.

    a toy and tackle (a watch and chain)

    Category:English terms with usage examples#TOY

    • 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).

      Category:English terms with quotations#TOY

    • 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.

      Category:English terms with quotations#TOY

16. (slangCategory:English slang#TOY, datedCategory:English dated terms#TOY) 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.

      Category:English terms with quotations#TOY

    • 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.

      Category:English terms with quotations#TOY

    • 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.

      Category:English terms with quotations#TOY

17. (slangCategory:English slang#TOY, datedCategory:English dated terms#TOY) 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.

      Category:English terms with quotations#TOY

    • 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.

      Category:English terms with quotations#TOY

Verb

Wikidata has a Lexeme related to:

toy (L10824)

toy (third-person singular simple present toys, present participle toying, simple past and past participle toyed)Category:English lemmas#TOYCategory:English verbs#TOYCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#TOYCategory:Pages with entries#TOYCategory:Pages with 12 entries#TOY

1. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#TOY) To play (with) in an idle or desultory way.

   to toy with a piece of food on one’s plateCategory:English terms with usage examples#TOY

   Figo is toying with the English defence.Category:English terms with usage examples#TOY

   • 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.

     Category:English terms with quotations#TOY

2. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#TOY) To ponder or consider.

   I have been toying with the idea of starting my own business.Category:English terms with usage examples#TOY

3. (slangCategory:English slang#TOY, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#TOY) 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.

     Category:English terms with quotations#TOY

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Adjective

English Wikipedia has an article on:

toy model

Wikipedia

toy (comparative more toy, superlative most toy)Category:English lemmas#TOYCategory:English adjectives#TOYCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#TOYCategory:Pages with entries#TOYCategory:Pages with 12 entries#TOY

1. (chiefly attributive) Impractical or unsuitable for real-world use, due to being unrealistically small or simple.
   • 2024 December 5, Alexander Meinke et al., Frontier Models are Capable of In-context Scheming‎, page 15:

     Our evaluation scenarios are purposefully simplistic […] This implies that the scenarios are quite toy and not representative of real deployments.

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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

• Tyo, yot

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian TurkishCategory:Azerbaijani terms inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish#TOYCategory:Azerbaijani terms derived from Old Anatolian Turkish#TOY طوی (toy), from Proto-TurkicCategory:Azerbaijani terms inherited from Proto-Turkic#TOYCategory:Azerbaijani terms derived from Proto-Turkic#TOY *toy (“feast”). Compare Turkish toy, Gagauz toy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toj/Category:Azerbaijani terms with IPA pronunciation#TOY

• Audio:

  (file)

  Category:Azerbaijani terms with audio pronunciation#TOY

Noun

toy (definite accusative toyu, plural toylar)Category:Azerbaijani lemmas#TOYCategory:Azerbaijani nouns#TOYCategory:Azerbaijani entries with incorrect language header#TOYCategory:Pages with entries#TOYCategory:Pages with 12 entries#TOY

1. weddingCategory:az:Marriage#TOY

Further reading

• “toy” in Obastan.com.

Etymology

From Proto-TurkicCategory:Crimean Tatar terms inherited from Proto-Turkic#TOYCategory:Crimean Tatar terms derived from Proto-Turkic#TOY *toy (“feast”).

Noun

toyCategory:Crimean Tatar lemmas#TOYCategory:Crimean Tatar nouns#TOYCategory:Crimean Tatar entries with incorrect language header#TOYCategory:Pages with entries#TOYCategory:Pages with 12 entries#TOY

1. weddingCategory:crh:Marriage#TOY

References

• “toy”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

Etymology

From DanishCategory:Faroese terms derived from Danish#TOY tøj, from Middle Low GermanCategory:Faroese terms derived from Middle Low German#TOY tüg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰɔiː/, /tʰœiː/Category:Faroese terms with IPA pronunciation#TOY

Noun

toy n (genitive singular toys, uncountable)Category:Faroese lemmas#TOYCategory:Faroese nouns#TOYCategory:Faroese uncountable nouns#TOYCategory:Faroese entries with incorrect language header#TOYCategory:Faroese neuter nouns#TOYCategory:Pages with entries#TOYCategory:Pages with 12 entries#TOY

1. fabric

Alternative forms

• toi (pre-1950's spelling)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toj/Category:Gagauz terms with IPA pronunciation#TOY

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Anatolian TurkishCategory:Gagauz terms inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish#TOYCategory:Gagauz terms derived from Old Anatolian Turkish#TOY طوی (toy, doy), from Proto-TurkicCategory:Gagauz terms inherited from Proto-Turkic#TOYCategory:Gagauz terms derived from Proto-Turkic#TOY *toy. Compare Turkish toy, Azerbaijani toy.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Anatolian TurkishCategory:Gagauz terms inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish#TOYCategory:Gagauz terms derived from Old Anatolian Turkish#TOY طوی (toy), from Proto-TurkicCategory:Gagauz terms inherited from Proto-Turkic#TOYCategory:Gagauz terms derived from Proto-Turkic#TOY *tod. Compare Turkish toy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoj/ [ˈtoɪ̯]Category:Ilocano terms with IPA pronunciation#TOY

Determiner

toyCategory:Ilocano lemmas#TOYCategory:Ilocano determiners#TOYCategory:Ilocano terms without Kur-itan script#TOYCategory:Ilocano entries with incorrect language header#TOYCategory:Pages with entries#TOYCategory:Pages with 12 entries#TOY

1. informal spelling of 'toyCategory:Ilocano informal forms#TOY

Etymology

From Proto-TurkicCategory:Khalaj terms inherited from Proto-Turkic#TOYCategory:Khalaj terms derived from Proto-Turkic#TOY *toy. Cognate with Azerbaijani toy, Turkish toy, Uyghur توي (toy).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toj/Category:Khalaj terms with IPA pronunciation#TOY

Noun

toy (definite accusative toyı, plural toylar)Category:Khalaj lemmas#TOYCategory:Khalaj nouns#TOYCategory:Khalaj entries with incorrect language header#TOYCategory:Pages with entries#TOYCategory:Pages with 12 entries#TOY

1. wedding

   Synonym: küdən

References

• Doerfer, Gerhard (1987), Lexik und Sprachgeographie des Chaladsch [Lexicon and Language Geography of Khalaj] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, →ISBN

Alternative forms

• toi

Pronoun

toyCategory:Middle French lemmas#TOYCategory:Middle French pronouns#TOYCategory:Middle French entries with incorrect language header#TOYCategory:Pages with entries#TOYCategory:Pages with 12 entries#TOY

1. (in the singular, less formal) you

Verb

toyCategory:Spanish non-lemma forms#TOYCategory:Spanish verb forms#TOYCategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#TOYCategory:Pages with entries#TOYCategory:Pages with 12 entries#TOY

1. (colloquialCategory:Spanish colloquialisms#TOY) apheretic form of estoyCategory:Spanish apheretic forms#TOY

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toj/Category:Turkish terms with IPA pronunciation#TOY
• (Malatya) IPA^(key): /doj/Category:Turkish terms with IPA pronunciation#TOY

Etymology 1

Inherited from Ottoman TurkishCategory:Turkish terms inherited from Ottoman Turkish#TOYCategory:Turkish terms derived from Ottoman Turkish#TOY طوی, from Old Anatolian TurkishCategory:Turkish terms inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish#TOYCategory:Turkish terms derived from Old Anatolian Turkish#TOY طوی (toy, doy), from Proto-TurkicCategory:Turkish terms inherited from Proto-Turkic#TOYCategory:Turkish terms derived from Proto-Turkic#TOY *tod. Compare Gagauz toy.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Ottoman TurkishCategory:Turkish terms inherited from Ottoman Turkish#TOYCategory:Turkish terms derived from Ottoman Turkish#TOY طوی, from Old Anatolian TurkishCategory:Turkish terms inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish#TOYCategory:Turkish terms derived from Old Anatolian Turkish#TOY طوی (toy, doy), from Proto-TurkicCategory:Turkish terms inherited from Proto-Turkic#TOYCategory:Turkish terms derived from Proto-Turkic#TOY *toy. Compare Azerbaijani toy, Gagauz toy.

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

Noun

toy (plural toylar)Category:Uzbek lemmas#TOYCategory:Uzbek nouns#TOYCategory:Uzbek entries with incorrect language header#TOYCategory:Pages with entries#TOYCategory:Pages with 12 entries#TOY

1. foal

Further reading

• “toy“ in izoh.uz