Meaning of playtoy | Babel Free

Definitions

A plaything.

Examples

“1724, William Burkitt, Expository Notes with Practical Observations on the New Testament, London, 1739, "Hebrews" Chapter 11, p. 742, [Moses] did not only […] at three Years old cast⟳ a Crown, [given] him for a Play-toy, to the Ground, and trample it under his Feet; but as the Apostle says here, when he came to be a Man, he treated it with no more Respect⟳, but refused to be called the Son of Pharaoh’s Daughter.”

“'A nice play-toy that for a respectable girl' said the shocked parson, his lean⟳ fingers indicating the naked, maimed doll and its unabashed mother.”

“It took some time for the singers to come⟳ off their level of exaltation, but the minister stood resolute until the song unwound like⟳ a child’s playtoy and lay⟳ quieted in the aisles.”

“To blacks, adds Editor-Publisher Ida Lewis, Women’s Lib is merely “a playtoy for middle-class white women.””

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