toy

Definition

  • noun: something a child plays with
  • noun: flirtatious or seductive behavior
  • verb: to act or deal with something lightly or without vigor or purpose
  • used to describe an animal (such as a dog) that is the smallest kind of a particular breed

Examples

  • ('US') a 'boy toy' = ('Brit') a 'toy boy' [=a young man who is having a romantic or sexual relationship with an older woman]

  • I 'toyed with' the idea of moving to France but ended up staying here.

  • She 'toyed' [='played'] 'with' her hair while she talked on the phone.

Movie quotes

  • (..) - Do you doubt that? I see Prince Hamlet makes a show of love. Beware, Ophelia, do not trust his vows Hold it but a fashion and a toy in blood, a violet in the spring of primy nature Fleeting, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, the suppliance of the moment, no more - No more but so? (..)
    2015 Hamlet