Meaning of toy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. ISO 639-3 language code for Topoiyo
3. Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child.
4. Thinking of you
5. Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
6. A thing of little importance or value; a trifle.
7. an object made for a child to play with. He got lots of toys for Christmas; a toy soldier. speelding لُعْبَه، دُمْيَه играчка brinquedo hračka das Spielzeug legetøj; legetøjs- παιχνίδιjuguete; de juguete mänguasi اسباب بازی lelu jouetצעצוע खिलौना igračka játék mainan leikfang giocattolo おもちゃ 장난감 žaislas rotaļieta mainan speelgoedlekezabawka لوبتكه، دلوبو شى (دكوچنيانو دپاره brinquedo jucărie игрушка hračka igrača igračka leksak ของเล่น oyuncak 玩具 іграшка; забава کھلونا đồ chơi 玩具
8. A thing of little importance or value; a trifle
9. A simple, light piece of music, written especially for the virginal.
10. (with with) to play with in an idle way. He wasn't hungry and sat toying with his food. speel يَلْهو، يَعْبَث играя си brincar nimrat se spielen lege med παίζωjugar con, comiscar mängitama, (hajameelselt) näppima بازی کردن pyöritellä chipoter לְשַׂחֵק ऊपरीतौर से दिलचस्पी लेना igrati se játszik vmivel bermain-main leika sér að giocherellare もてあそぶ 만지작거리다 knebinėti, nerimtai svarstyti spēlēties; niekoties mencuit-cuit spelenleke med; pirke ibawić się لوبی کول brincar a se juca cu ковырять babrať...
    with
11. A simple, light piece of music, written especially for the virginal
12. Ellipsis of toy dog.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
13. juguete.
14. Ellipsis of toy dog
15. Love play, amorous dalliance; fondling.
    obsolete
16. An object for a child to play with.
17. A vague fancy, a ridiculous idea or notion; a whim.
    obsolete
18. Something that provides amusement: "The profit on a toy like a motorcycle or a snowmobile is maybe a tenth that on a solid family car" (John Updike).
19. An old story; a silly tale.
    obsolete
20. A small ornament; a bauble.
21. A headdress of linen or wool that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by elderly women of the lower classes.
    Scotland, archaic
22. A diminutive thing, especially a dog of a very small breed or of a variety smaller than the standard variety of its breed.
23. Ellipsis of sex toy.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, euphemistic
24. Scots A loose covering for the head, formerly worn by women.
    Scots
25. An inferior graffiti artist.
    derogatory, slang
26. A gun.
    Multicultural-London-English, slang
27. Chiefly Southern US A shooter marble.
    Chiefly Southern US
28. The penis.
    dated, euphemistic, slang
29. The vagina.
    dated, euphemistic, slang
30. A watch.
    dated, slang
31. A small jar (about an inch across) used to hold prepared opium.
    dated, slang
32. A small ball of opium (about the size of a pea).
    dated, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“A grown man like him does not play with a child’s toy.”

“tis a pretie toy to be a Poet.”

“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.”

“Since standards are large dogs, they grow much more rapidly than miniatures and toys, which means that they require more supplements.”

“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.”

“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 […].”

“To fly about playing their wanton toys.”

“What if a toy take 'em i'th' heels now, and they all run away.”

“Nor light and idle toys my lines may vainly swell.”

“More strange than true: I never may believe these antique fables, nor these fairy toys.”

“Having, moreover, put on her clean toy, rokelay, and scarlet plaid.”

“It is incorrect to say that toys tag and masters piece; toys just do bad tags, bad throw-ups, and bad pieces.”

“I was a toy until I met Sear, who moved here from Toronto and showed me the book Subway Art.”

“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.”

“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.”

“a toy and tackle (a watch and chain)”

“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).”

“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.”

“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.”

“Chang was always on call, to go to Americans with "toys" of hop, ready to "cook," if desired by his patrons.”

“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.”

“I smoked a toy a day, same as on the ship. You could buy a small toy for two dollars.”

“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.”

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