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Toy   /tɔɪ/   Listen
Toy

noun
1.
An artifact designed to be played with.  Synonym: plaything.
2.
A nonfunctional replica of something else (frequently used as a modifier).
3.
A device regarded as providing amusement.
4.
A copy that reproduces a person or thing in greatly reduced size.  Synonym: miniature.
5.
Any of several breeds of very small dogs kept purely as pets.  Synonym: toy dog.
verb
(past & past part. toyed; pres. part. toying)
1.
Behave carelessly or indifferently.  Synonyms: dally, flirt, play.
2.
Manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination.  Synonyms: diddle, fiddle, play.  "Don't fiddle with the screws" , "He played with the idea of running for the Senate"
3.
Engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously.  Synonym: play.  "Play the stock market" , "Play with her feelings" , "Toy with an idea"



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"Toy" Quotes from Famous Books



... had been shopping since ten in the morning, and her carriage had stood before the dry-goods stores, and toy-shops, and candy stores, while bundle after bundle had been deposited on the cushions, and others ordered to be sent. But she was nearly through now, and just as it was beginning to grow dark in the streets she bade her ...
— Miss McDonald • Mary J. Holmes
... is he still living? I can see him yet, that terrible old man who wanted to cut out my eyes and tongue so that you could have a new toy." ...
— The Doomsman • Van Tassel Sutphen
... flowers, and its odor breathed by man or woman, causes a sudden swoon from which there is no awakening more in this world. People feel no pain, but die smiling as if angels had kissed away their breath. Is it not a precious toy, Mademoiselle?" ...
— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby
... I should not have been able to bear my disgrace, had not the idea of the ever faithful and fond Narcissa come to my relief. I quitted the scene of my mortification, and, sauntering about the town, happened to wake from my contemplation, when I found myself just opposite to a toy-shop, which I entered, and purchased a ring set with a ruby in the form of a heart, surrounded by diamond sparks, for which I paid ten guineas, intending it for a present to the ...
— The Adventures of Roderick Random • Tobias Smollett
... tremendously natural; and all overhung with this strange white light, this far-away blue sky. There 's a big wooden house—a kind of three-story bungalow; it looks like a magnified Nuremberg toy. There was a gentleman there that made a speech to me about it and called it a 'venerable mansion;' but it looks as if it had been ...
— The Europeans • Henry James


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