Definizione monolingua

toy

toy (third-person singular simple present toys, present participle toying, simple past and past participle toyed)

1. To play with, to mock

   Figo is toying with the English defence.

2. To ponder or consider.

   I have been toying with the idea of starting my own business.

toy (plural toys)

1. Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child. [from 16th c.]
2. A thing of little importance or value; a trifle. [from 16th c.]
3. A simple, light piece of music, written especially for the virginal. [16th-17th c.]
4. (obsolete) Love play, amorous dalliance; fondling. [16th-18th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.i:

     Then seemed him his Lady by him lay, / And to him playnd, how that false winged boy, / Her chast hart had subdewd, to learne Dame pleasures toy.

5. (obsolete) A vague fancy, a ridiculous idea or notion; a whim. [16th-17th c.]
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, vol 1., III.i.2:

     Though they do talk with you, and seem to be otherwise employed, and to your thinking very intent and busy, still that toy runs in their mind, that fear, that suspicion, that abuse, that jealousy [...].

toy

1. (singular, less formal) you

toy

1. immature, naive

Definizione dizionario toy

	giocattolo
	something to play with

	balocco
	something to play with

giocherellare

gioco

giocàttolo

giuocattolo

Altri significati:

A thing of little importance or value; a trifle. [from 16th c.]

(obsolete) Love play, amorous dalliance; fondling. [16th-18th c.]

Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child. [from 16th c.]

To ponder or consider.

Item designed for amusement or play, usually intended for children to use.

To play with, to mock

(obsolete) A vague fancy, a ridiculous idea or notion; a whim. [16th-17th c.]