Toy: Definition and part of speech

Toy

  1. v. t. A headdress of linen or woolen, that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by old women of the lower classes; — called also toy mutch.
  2. v. t. A plaything for children; a bawble.
  3. v. t. A thing for amusement, but of no real value; an article of trade of little value; a trifle.
  4. v. t. A wild fancy; an odd conceit; idle sport; folly; trifling opinion.
  5. v. t. Amorous dalliance; play; sport; pastime.
  6. v. t. An old story; a silly tale.
  7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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