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Impatient vs Toey - What's the difference?

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Impatient is a related term of toey.


As adjectives the difference between impatient and toey

is that impatient is impatient while toey is (slang|chiefly|australia) agitated, anticipatory, excited (sometimes specifically sexually so), nervous.

impatient

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • restless and intolerant of delays
  • * Addison
    • The impatient man will not give himself time to be informed of the matter that lies before him.
  • anxious and eager, especially to begin something
  • (obsolete) Not to be borne; unendurable.
    • (Spenser)
  • Prompted by, or exhibiting, impatience.
    • impatient speeches or replies
  • * 1594 , , III. ii. 287:
    • What, will you tear / Impatient answers from my gentle tongue?

    Derived terms

    * impatiently

    toey

    English

    Adjective

  • (slang, chiefly, Australia) Agitated, anticipatory, excited (sometimes specifically sexually so), nervous.
  • * 2000 , Joan Kilby, The Cattleman’s Bride , Harlequin, page 158,
    • “You’re toeyer than a chook caught in a swag.”
    She rolled her eyes. “I still don’t know what you mean.”

    Synonyms

    * (agitated) antsy * (sexually excited) horny, randy

    Derived terms

    * toey as a Roman sandal

    See also

    * frustrated

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