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Definition of Toy

Toy

A plaything for children; a bawble.

A thing for amusement, but of no real value; an article of trade of little value; a trifle.

A wild fancy; an odd conceit; idle sport; folly; trifling opinion.

Amorous dalliance; play; sport; pastime.

An old story; a silly tale.

A headdress of linen or woolen, that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by old women of the lower classes; -- called also toy mutch.

To dally amorously; to trifle; to play.

To treat foolishly.

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Toy Quotations

When I was a kid, I went to the store and asked the guy, Do you have any toy train schedules?
Steven Wright

The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
Sam Levenson

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.
Ambrose Bierce

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
Victor Hugo

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
Christopher Marlowe

It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.
Lewis Mumford

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!"
George Will

You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. It's exactly like when you take the toy off the shelf at Wal-Mart and another is made in Shen Zhen the next day.
Thomas Friedman

I'm not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else.
Jon Stewart

No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.
Yitzhak Rabin

Sports is the toy department of human life.
Howard Cosell

I didn't want to be known as Madonna's playboy, her boy toy.
Dennis Rodman

Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.
Loretta Lynn

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.
Bill Bryson

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
Tom Robbins

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.
Christopher Lasch

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.
Tim Robbins

I kinda see my current position like this: Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before 'Chuck Woolery' rings the bell.
Ben Affleck

We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.
Feisal Abdul Rauf

It was kind of like they were just giving us a toy to play with, to do whatever we wanted with.
Steve Carell

Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.
Nat King Cole

To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself.
Allen Klein

I'm a big toy collector. I've been slowing down because my money's been tight, but I collect toys, too.
Jason Mewes

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.
James Broughton

When they do bring on new people, it's good for the show. It's like getting a new toy. The writers enjoy it because it's a whole new character that they can write for, one that they aren't used to writing for. They can try different things.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar

When I was 8, my favorite toy was a stapler. My brother was afraid of me.
Emily Procter

Everywhere you look, there is a charity or a project in school to get involved in. In eighth grade, there was this program called CJSF, California Junior Scholarship Foundation. We were involved in soup kitchens and toy drives, and your school can set up something like that. If your school doesn't have a program like that, set one up.
Lindsey Shaw

Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works.
Shahrukh Khan

Eventually I found it had been working all along-but didn't show anything on screen until it had the first full page of text. I inserted 30 new lines, and suddenly my toy said 'hEllO woRlD'. An hour later I understood alphabet shifting rather better!
Graham Nelson

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Toy Translations

toy in Dutch is speelbal, stuk speelgoed, speeltuig
toy in French is joujou, jouet
toy in German is Spielzeug
toy in Portuguese is brinquedo
toy in Spanish is juguete, trebejo
toy in Swedish is leksak

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