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toy | tea |

As a proper noun toy

is .

As an initialism tea is

(northern ireland) training and employment agency.

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.

    See also

    * game ----

    tea

    English

    (wikipedia tea)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The dried leaves or buds of the tea plant, .
  • (uncountable) The drink made by infusing these dried leaves or buds in hot water.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
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  • (countable) A variety of the tea plant.
  • (uncountable) By extension, any drink made by infusing parts of various other plants.
  • A cup of any one of these drinks, often with a small amount of milk or cream added and sweetened with sugar or honey.
  • (countable, Southern US) A glass of iced tea, typically served with ice cubes and sometimes with a slice or wedge of lemon.
  • (uncountable, UK) A light meal eaten mid-afternoon, typically with tea.
  • (uncountable, New Zealand, British, Australia) The main evening meal, irrespective of whether tea is drunk with it.
  • (cricket) The break in play between the second]] and [[third session, third sessions.
  • (slang, dated) Marijuana.
  • * 1940 , (Raymond Chandler), Farewell, My Lovely , Penguin 2010, page 103:
  • So they were evidence. Evidence of what? That a man occasionally smoked a stick of tea , a man who looked as if any touch of the exotic would appeal to him. On the other hand lots of tough guys smoked marijuana .
  • * 1946 , (Mezz Mezzrow) and (Bernard Wolfe), Really the Blues , Payback Press 1999, page 74:
  • Tea puts a musician in a real masterly sphere, and that's why so many jazzmen have used it.
  • * 1947 , (William Burroughs), letter, 11 Mar 1947:
  • Here in Texas possession of tea is a felony calling for 2 years.

    Usage notes

    In many places tea is assumed to mean hot tea, while in the southern United States, it is assumed to mean iced tea.

    Synonyms

    * (dried leaves of tea plant) tea leaves * (drink made by infusing parts of various other plants) herb tea, herbal tea, infusion, tisane

    Derived terms

    * afternoon tea * all the tea in China * bed tea * black tea * builder's tea * camomile tea * cream tea * cup of tea * Devonshire tea * fruit tea * green tea * herb tea, herbal tea * herbal tea * high tea * iced tea * Long Island iced tea * morning tea * mint tea * red tea * rooibos tea * sugar honey ice tea * tea and toaster * teabag * teaberry * teaboy * tea break * tea caddy * teacake * tea cart * tea ceremony * tea cloth * tea cosy * teacup * teahouse, tea house * teakettle * tea leaf (Cockney rhyming slang) * tea leaves * tea pad * tea party * tea plant * teapot * tea room * tea service * teaspoon * tea strainer * teatime * tea towel * tea tray * tea trolley * tea urn * tea wagon * white tea

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To drink tea.
  • To take afternoon tea (the light meal).
  • * 1877 , The Bicycling Times and Tourist's Gazette (page 38)
  • The wind was high and the hills ditto, and both being against us we were late in reaching Hitchin (30 from Cambridge), so giving up the idea of reaching Oxford we toiled on through Luton, on to Dunstable (47), where we teaed moderately

    References

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