toy

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
/tɔɪ/    /tɔɪ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child.
    — A grown man like him does not play with a child’s toy.
  2. A thing of little importance or value; a trifle.
    — tis a pretie toy to be a Poet.
  3. A simple, light piece of music, written especially for the virginal.
  4. Ellipsis of toy dog. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
    — Since standards are large dogs, they grow much more rapidly than miniatures and toys, which means that they require more supplements.
  5. Love play, amorous dalliance; fondling. obsolete
    — 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.
  6. A vague fancy, a ridiculous idea or notion; a whim. obsolete
    — 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 […].
  7. An old story; a silly tale. obsolete
    — More strange than true: I never may believe these antique fables, nor these fairy toys.
  8. A headdress of linen or wool that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by elderly women of the lower classes. Scotland,archaic
    — Having, moreover, put on her clean toy, rokelay, and scarlet plaid.
  9. Ellipsis of sex toy. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis,euphemistic
  10. An inferior graffiti artist. derogatory,slang
    — It is incorrect to say that toys tag and masters piece; toys just do bad tags, bad throw-ups, and bad pieces.
  11. A gun. Multicultural-London-English,slang
    — 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.
  12. The penis. dated,euphemistic,slang
  13. The vagina. dated,euphemistic,slang
  14. A watch. dated,slang
    — a toy and tackle (a watch and chain)
  15. A small jar (about an inch across) used to hold prepared opium. dated,slang
    — 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.
  16. A small ball of opium (about the size of a pea). dated,slang
    — I smoked a toy a day, same as on the ship. You could buy a small toy for two dollars.
动词 v.
  1. To play (with) in an idle or desultory way. intransitive
    — to toy with a piece of food on one’s plate
  2. To ponder or consider. intransitive
    — I have been toying with the idea of starting my own business.
  3. To stimulate with a sex toy. slang,transitive
    — He could see her hand go to her slit, and soon she was toying herself along, breathing heavily.
形容词 adj.
  1. Impractical or unsuitable for real-world use, due to being unrealistically small or simple. attributive
    — Our evaluation scenarios are purposefully simplistic […] This implies that the scenarios are quite toy and not representative of real deployments.

词形变化

toys plural toys present,singular,third-person toying participle,present toyed participle,past toyed past more toy comparative most toy superlative

词源

词源 1
Inherited from Middle English 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 Dutch *tiug, from Proto-West Germanic *tiugī̆, *teug, from Proto-Germanic *teugą (“stuff, matter, device, gear, lever”, literally “that which is drawn or pulled”), from Proto-Germanic *teuhaną (“to lead, bring, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *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.
词源 2
Inherited from Middle English 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 Dutch *tiug, from Proto-West Germanic *tiugī̆, *teug, from Proto-Germanic *teugą (“stuff, matter, device, gear, lever”, literally “that which is drawn or pulled”), from Proto-Germanic *teuhaną (“to lead, bring, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *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.
词源 3
Inherited from Middle English 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 Dutch *tiug, from Proto-West Germanic *tiugī̆, *teug, from Proto-Germanic *teugą (“stuff, matter, device, gear, lever”, literally “that which is drawn or pulled”), from Proto-Germanic *teuhaną (“to lead, bring, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *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.
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