Toy
Toy (toi) , noun
[Dutch tuid tools, implements, stuff, trash, speeltuig playthings, toys; akin to German zeug stuff, materials, MNG. ziuc, Icelandic tygi gear; all ultimately from the root of English tug, transitive verb; compare German zeugen to beget, Middle High German ziugen to beget, make ready, procure. See Tug, transitive verb]
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.
3.
A wild fancy; an odd conceit; idle sport; folly; trifling opinion.
To fly about playing their wanton toys.
What if a toy take 'em in the heels now, and they all run away.
Nor light and idle toys my lines may vainly swell.
4.
Amorous dalliance; play; sport; pastime. — Milton
To dally thus with death is no fit toy.
5.
An old story; a silly tale. — Shakespeare
6.
A headdress of linen or woolen, that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by old women of the lower classes; -- called also toy mutch. [Scottish]
Having, moreover, put on her clean toy, rokelay, and scarlet plaid.
Toy , intransitive verb
To dally amorously; to trifle; to play.
To toy, to wanton, dally, smile and jest.
Toy , transitive verb
To treat foolishly. [Obsolete] — E. Dering (1576)