different between toy vs tay

English

Etymology

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 (“play-thing, toy”), from Old Dutch *tiug, from Proto-Germanic *teug? (“stuff, matter, device, gear, lever”, literally “that which is drawn or pulled”), from Proto-Germanic *teuhan? (“to lead, bring, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”). Cognate with German Spielzeug (“toy”), Danish legetøj (“play-thing, toy”). Related to tug, tow.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

toy (plural toys)

1. Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child. [from 16th c.]

2. A thing of little importance or value; a trifle. [from 16th c.]

   • he had deflowered the abbess, and as many besides of the nuns as he could, and leaves him withal rings, jewels, girdles, and such toys to give them still, when they came to visit him.

3. A simple, light piece of music, written especially for the virginal. [16th-17th c.]
4. (obsolete) Love play, amorous dalliance; fondling. [16th-18th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.i:

     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.

5. (obsolete) A vague fancy, a ridiculous idea or notion; a whim. [16th-17th c.]
   • , vol.1, III.i.2:

     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 […].

   • What if a toy take 'em i'th' heels now, and they all run away.

   • Nor light and idle toys my lines may vainly swell.

6. (slang, derogatory) An inferior graffiti artist.
   • 2009, Gregory J. Snyder, Graffiti Lives: Beyond the Tag in New York's Urban Underground (page 40)

     It is incorrect to say that toys tag and masters piece; toys just do bad tags, bad throw-ups, and bad pieces.

   • 2011, Adam Melnyk, Visual Orgasm: The Early Years of Canadian Graffiti (page 45)

     I was a toy until I met Sear, who moved here from Toronto and showed me the book Subway Art.

7. (obsolete) An old story; a silly tale.
8. (Scotland, archaic) A headdress of linen or wool that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by old women of the lower classes; called also toy mutch.
9. A sex toy (object or device to give sexual pleasure).

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:toy

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

toy (third-person singular simple present toys, present participle toying, simple past and past participle toyed)

1. (intransitive) To play (with) in an idle or desultory way.
2. (intransitive) To ponder or consider.

3. (slang, transitive) To stimulate with a sex toy.
   • 2013, Jonathan Everest, Lady Loverly's Chattel

     He could see her hand go to her slit, and soon she was toying herself along, breathing heavily.

Translations

See also

• game

Anagrams

• Tyo, yot

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *toy (“feast”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toj/

Noun

toy (definite accusative toyu, plural toylar)

1. wedding

Declension

Crimean Tatar

Noun

toy

1. wedding feast
2. banquet

Faroese

Etymology

From Danish tøj, from Middle Low German tüg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??i?/, /t?œi?/

Noun

toy n (genitive singular toys, uncountable)

1. fabric

Declension

Middle French

Alternative forms

• toi

Pronoun

toy

1. (in the singular, less formal) you

Synonyms

• (plural or polite singular): vous

Related terms

• te
• tu

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish ????, attested in Turkic from the 11th century.

Adjective

toy

1. immature, naive

Etymology 2

Noun

toy (definite accusative toyu, plural toylar)

1. great bustard; Otis tarda

See also

• tay

References

• Ni?anyan, Sevan (2002–) , “toy1”, in Ni?anyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) , “???”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1264

Uzbek

Noun

toy (plural toylar)

1. foal

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?, IPA^(key): /te?/
• Rhymes: -e?

Etymology

Spelling form indicating original pronunciation of tea.

Noun

tay (plural tays)

1. (obsolete or dialect) Tea.

Anagrams

• AYT, Yat, yat

Kalasha

Determiner

tay

1. your (singular)

Coordinate terms

• mími

Kwaza

Noun

tay

1. woman

References

• Hein van der Voort, A Grammar of Kwaza

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Middle French taye, and its source, Latin t?ca, th?ca, from Ancient Greek ???? (th?k?, “covering, sheath”)

Noun

tay (plural tays)

1. The outer membrane of the brain.

   • ryght so he smote hys fadir, Kynge Arthure, with hys swerde holdynge in both hys hondys, uppon the syde of the hede, that the swerde perced the helmet and the tay of the brayne.

References

• “tei and teie, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 25 September 2020.

Etymology 2

Pronoun

tay

1. Alternative form of þei

Paipai

Adjective

tay

1. big

Pipil

Alternative forms

• (Izalco) tey (/?te?j/)

Etymology

From Proto-Nahuan *tla-. Compare Classical Nahuatl tlein (“what”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta?j/

Pronoun

tay

1. (interro?ative) what

   Tay tikwaj yalua?

   What did you eat yesterday?

2. (relative) what; that which; the thing that

   Tesu nikmati ne tay inak

   I dont't know what she/he said

Turkish

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (tay), from Proto-Turkic [Term?]. Cognate with Kazakh ??? (tay).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?j/

Noun

tay (definite accusative tay?, plural taylar)

1. colt (horse)

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *si?, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *sii(?) (Shorto). Cognate with Thavung ??. Compare Sora si?i.

The relationship between this root and the root represented by Khmer ?? (day), Bahnar ti, Juang iti is uncertain.

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [taj??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [taj??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ta(?)j??]
• Homophone: tai (in some Southern accents)

Noun

tay • (????)

1. (colloquial) a hand
2. (colloquial) an arm

3. (informal) a guy; a dude

Derived terms