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Restive vs Toey - What's the difference?

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Restive is a related term of toey.


As adjectives the difference between restive and toey

is that restive is impatient under delay, duress, or control while toey is (slang|chiefly|australia) agitated, anticipatory, excited (sometimes specifically sexually so), nervous.

restive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Impatient under delay, duress, or control.
  • * 1914 , :
    • The horses were now more restive than ever, and Johann was trying to hold them in.
  • *
  • Resistant of control; stubborn.
  • *
    • Yet I am of opinion, this defect arises chiefly from a perverse, restive disposition; for they are cunning, malicious, treacherous, and revengeful.
  • Refusing to move, especially in a forward direction.

    • Synonyms

    * (impatient under duress) anxious, champing at the bit, fidgety, restless, uneasy * (resistant of control) disobedient, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, uncooperative, unruly * (refusing to move) balky

    Derived terms

    * restively * restiveness

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    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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