Other forms: toys
A toy is an object made for a child to play with. A cuddly toy, toy soldiers, put the toys away.
As an adjective it means a miniature version, as in a toy dog or a toy piano, and that use is neutral rather than dismissive. To toy with something is to handle it idly or to treat it without seriousness, which is a separate sense of the same word.
1nountoyAn object made for a child to play with.
“The children left their toys all over the living room floor.”
toy is an object.
Middle English toye meant amorous play or a piece of fun, probably from Middle Dutch.
Proto-Indo-European
*dewk-
Proto-Germanic
*teugą — stuff, matter, device, gear, lever
Proto-West Germanic
*tiugī̆
Old Dutch
*tiug
Middle English
toye — amorous play, piece of fun or entertainment
English, today
toy
Built from
Middle English toye (“amorous play, piece of fun or entertainment”), probably from Middle Dutch toy, tuyg (“tools, apparatus, utensil, ornament”) as in Dutch speeltuig (“plaything, toy”), from Old Dutch tiug, from Proto-West Germanic tiugī̆, teug, from Proto-Germanic teugą (“stuff, matter, device, gear, lever”) literally “that which is drawn or pulled”, from Proto-Germanic teuhaną (“to lead, bring, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European dewk- (“to pull, lead”). Cognate with Dutch tuig (“thing”), {{cog|de|
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA