Toy (toi), n. [D. tuid tools, implements, stuff, trash, speeltuig playthings, toys; akin to G. zeug stuff, materials, MNG. ziuc, Icel. tygi gear; all ultimately from the root of E. tug, v. t.; cf. G. zeugen to beget, MHG. ziugen to beget, make ready, procure. See Tug, v. t.]
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1. A plaything for children; a bawble. Cowper.
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2. A thing for amusement, but of no real value; an article of trade of little value; a trifle.
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They exchange for knives, glasses, and such toys, great abundance of gold and pearl. Abr. Abbot.
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3. A wild fancy; an odd conceit; idle sport; folly; trifling opinion.
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To fly about playing their wanton toys. Spenser.
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What if a toy take 'em in the heels now, and they all run away. Beau. & Fl.
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Nor light and idle toys my lines may vainly swell. Drayton.
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4. Amorous dalliance; play; sport; pastime. Milton.
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To dally thus with death is no fit toy. Spenser.
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5. An old story; a silly tale. Shak.
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6. [Probably the same word.] A headdress of linen or woolen, that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by old women of the lower classes; -- called also toy mutch. [Scot.] “Having, moreover, put on her clean toy, rokelay, and scarlet plaid.” Sir W. Scott.
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Toy, v. t. To treat foolishly. [Obs.] E. Dering (1576).
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