Apprehensive vs Toey - What's the difference?
apprehensive | toey | Related terms |
Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
* 1719 ,
Perceptive; quick to learn; intelligent; capable of grasping with the mind or intellect.
* 1670 ,
(slang, chiefly, Australia) Agitated, anticipatory, excited (sometimes specifically sexually so), nervous.
* 2000 , Joan Kilby, The Cattleman’s Bride , Harlequin,
Apprehensive is a related term of toey.
As adjectives the difference between apprehensive and toey
is that apprehensive is while toey is (slang|chiefly|australia) agitated, anticipatory, excited (sometimes specifically sexually so), nervous.apprehensive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- this convinced me that there was no going on shore for us in the night on that coast, and how to venture on shore in the day was another question too; for to have fallen into the hands of any of the savages had been as bad as to have fallen into the hands of the lions and tigers; at least we were equally apprehensive of the danger of it.
- More fond of Miracles, than apprehensive of Truth.
Derived terms
* apprehensivelytoey
English
Adjective
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- “You’re toeyer than a chook caught in a swag.”
- She rolled her eyes. “I still don’t know what you mean.”
