Definitions for toys

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toys toy

Spelling: [toi]

IPA: /tɔɪ/

Toys is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 22 anagrams from letters in toys (osty).

Definitions for toys

noun

1. an object, often a small representation of something familiar, as an animal or person, for children or others to play with; plaything.
2. a thing or matter of little or no value or importance; a trifle.
3. something that serves for or as if for diversion, rather than for serious practical use.
4. a small article of little value but prized as a souvenir or for some other special reason; trinket; knickknack; bauble.
5. something diminutive, especially in comparison with like objects.
6. an animal of a breed or variety noted for smallness of size:
7. a close-fitting cap of linen or wool, with flaps coming down to the shoulders, formerly worn by women in Scotland.
8. a simple, light piece of music, especially of 16th or 17th century England, written for the virginal.
9. Obsolete. amorous dallying. a playful or amusing act; diversion; pastime.

adjective

1. made or designed for use as a toy:
2. of or resembling a toy, especially diminutive in size.

verb (used without object)

1. to amuse oneself; play.
2. to act idly; or with indifference; trifle:
3. to dally amorously; flirt.

Origin of toys

1275-1325; Middle English toye dalliance; of obscure origin

Examples for toys

He wrapped the toy vane in a piece of paper and handed it to his small patron.

You were but a lad learning to fly your first toy helics when that happened.

I often find myself in the toy aisle, having an existential crisis.

Then last week, a 12-year-old in Cleveland shot dead for holding a toy gun.

I know that I cannot carry a gun in public and neither can my sons, even if it is a toy.

We learn first to play with it academically, as the magnet was once a toy.

Even this toy of a train brings us, in thirty minutes, to Beirut.

For decades, toy production and marketing was increasingly gender neutral.

A car was indeed dispatched, with no mention that the suspect was possibly a juvenile and that the gun might be a toy.

He was sitting on the floor with our boy gravely intent on a toy circus.