Toy vs Mock - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between toy and mock

is that toy is something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child while mock is an imitation, usually of lesser quality.

As verbs the difference between toy and mock

is that toy is to play (with) while mock is to mimic, to simulate.

As an adjective mock is

imitation, not genuine; fake.

toy

English

Noun

(en noun)

Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child.

A thing of little importance or value; a trifle.

* Abr. Abbot

They exchange for knives, glasses, and such toys , great abundance of gold and pearl.

A simple, light piece of music, written especially for the virginal.

(obsolete) Love play, amorous dalliance; fondling.

* 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 .

(obsolete) A vague fancy, a ridiculous idea or notion; a whim.

*, 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 […].

* Spenser

To fly about playing their wanton toys .

* Beaumont and Fletcher

What if a toy take 'em in the heels now, and they all run away.

* Drayton

Nor light and idle toys my lines may vainly swell.

(slang, derogatory) An inferior graffiti artist.

* 2009 , Gregory J. Snyder, Graffiti Lives: Beyond the Tag in New York's Urban Underground (page 40)

It is incorrect to say that toys tag and masters piece; toys just do bad tags, bad throw-ups, and bad pieces.

* 2011 , Adam Melnyk, Visual Orgasm: The Early Years of Canadian Graffiti (page 45)

I was a toy until I met Sear, who moved here from Toronto and showed me the book Subway Art.

(obsolete) An old story; a silly tale.

(Shakespeare)

(Scotland, archaic) A headdress of linen or wool that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by old women of the lower classes; called also toy mutch.

* Sir Walter Scott

Having, moreover, put on her clean toy , rokelay, and scarlet plaid.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* boy toy * chew toy * cuddly toy * sex toy * toylike * toyshop

Verb

(en verb)

To play (with).

to toy with a piece of food on one's plate

Figo is toying with the English defence.

To ponder or consider.

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

(slang) To stimulate with a sex toy.

* 2013 , Jonathan Everest, Lady Loverly's Chattel

He could see her hand go to her slit, and soon she was toying herself along, breathing heavily.

mock

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)

An imitation, usually of lesser quality.

(Crashaw)

Mockery, the act of mocking.

* Bible, Proverbs xiv. 9

Fools make a mock at sin.

A practice exam set by an educating institution to prepare students for an important exam.

He got a B in his History mock , but improved to an A in the exam.

Verb

(en verb)

To mimic, to simulate.

* Shakespeare

To see the life as lively mocked' as ever / Still sleep ' mocked death.

* Shakespeare

Mocking marriage with a dame of France.

To make fun of by mimicking, to taunt.

* Bible, 1 Kings xviii. 27

Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud.

* Gray

Let not ambition mock their useful toil.

To tantalise, and disappoint (the hopes of).

* Bible, Judges xvi. 13

Thou hast mocked me, and told me lies.

* 1597 , William Shakespeare, Henry IV , Part II, Act V, Scene III:

And with his spirit sadly I survive, / to mock the expectations of the world; / to frustrate prophecies, and to raze out / rotten opinion

* 1603 , William Shakespeare, Othello , Act III, Scene III:

"It is the greene-ey'd Monster, which doth mocke / The meate it feeds on."

* 1667 , John Milton, Paradise Lost :

Why do I overlive? / Why am I mocked with death, and lengthened out / to deathless pain?

* Milton

He will not / Mock us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence.

* 1765 , Benjamin Heath, A revisal of Shakespear's text , page 563 (a commentary on the "mocke the meate" line from Othello):

‘Mock’ certainly never signifies to loath. Its common signification is, to disappoint.

* 1812 , The Critical Review or, Annals of Literature , page 190:

The French revolution indeed is a prodigy which has mocked the expectations both of its friends and its foes. It has cruelly disappointed the fondest hopes of the first, nor has it observed that course which the last thought that it would have pursued.

Synonyms

* See also * See also

Adjective

(-)

Imitation, not genuine; fake.