Category:Toy

Toy, n. Etym: [d. tuid tools, implements, stuff, trash, speeltuig Playthings, toys; akin to g. zeug stuff, materials, mng. zuic, icel. Tygi gear; all ultimately from the root of e. tug, v.t.; cf.G. zeugen To beget, mhg.ziugen to beget, make ready, procure. See tug, v. t.]

1. A plaything for children; a bawble. Cowper.

2. A thing for amusement, but of no real value; an article of trade Of little value; a trifle. They exchange for knives, glasses, and such toys, great abundance of Gold and pearl. Abr. Abbot.

3. A wild fancy; an odd conceit; idle sport; folly; trifling opinion. To fly about playing their wanton toys. Spenser. What if a toy take'em in the heels now, and they all run away. Beau. &fl. Nor light and idle toys my lines may vainly swell. Drayton.

4. Amorous dalliance; play; sport; pastime. Milton. To dally thus with death is no fit toy. Spenser.

5. An old story; a silly tale. Shak.

6. Etym: [probably the same word.]

Defn: a headdress of linen or woolen, that hangs down over the Shoulders, worn by old women of the lower classes; -- called also toy Mutch. [scot.] "having, moreover, put on her clean toy, rokelay, and Scarlet plaid." Sir w. Scott.

Toy Toy, v. i. [imp. & p. p. toyed; p. pr. & vb. n. toying.]

Defn: to dally amorously; to trifle; to play. To toy, to wanton, dally, smile and jest. Shak.

Toy Toy, v. t.

Defn: to treat foolishly. [obs.] E. Dering (1576).