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.
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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.