Toyed vs Coyed - What's the difference?
toyed | coyed |
(toy)
Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child.
A thing of little importance or value; a trifle.
* Abr. Abbot
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:
(obsolete) A vague fancy, a ridiculous idea or notion; a whim.
*, vol.1, III.i.2:
* Spenser
* Beaumont and Fletcher
* Drayton
(slang, derogatory) An inferior graffiti artist.
* 2009 , Gregory J. Snyder, Graffiti Lives: Beyond the Tag in New York's Urban Underground (page 40)
* 2011 , Adam Melnyk, Visual Orgasm: The Early Years of Canadian Graffiti (page 45)
(obsolete) An old story; a silly tale.
(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
To play (with).
To ponder or consider.
(slang) To stimulate with a sex toy.
* 2013 , Jonathan Everest, Lady Loverly's Chattel
(coy)
(dated) Bashful, shy, retiring.
(archaic) Quiet, reserved, modest.
Reluctant to give details about something sensitive; notably prudish.
Pretending shyness or modesty, especially in an insincere or flirtatious way.
Soft, gentle, hesitating.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To caress, pet; to coax, entice.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To calm or soothe.
To allure; to decoy.
* Bishop Rainbow
As verbs the difference between toyed and coyed
is that toyed is past tense of toy while coyed is past tense of coy.toyed
English
Verb
(head)toy
English
Noun
(en noun)- They exchange for knives, glasses, and such toys , great abundance of gold and pearl.
- 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 .
- 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 […].
- To fly about playing their wanton toys .
- What if a toy take 'em in the heels now, and they all run away.
- Nor light and idle toys my lines may vainly swell.
- It is incorrect to say that toys tag and masters piece; toys just do bad tags, bad throw-ups, and bad pieces.
- I was a toy until I met Sear, who moved here from Toronto and showed me the book Subway Art.
- (Shakespeare)
- Having, moreover, put on her clean toy , rokelay, and scarlet plaid.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* boy toy * chew toy * cuddly toy * sex toy * toylike * toyshopVerb
(en verb)- to toy with a piece of food on one's plate
- Figo is toying with the English defence.
- I have been toying with the idea of starting my own business.
- He could see her hand go to her slit, and soon she was toying herself along, breathing heavily.
See also
* game ----coyed
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*coy
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) coi, earlier .Adjective
(er)- Enforced hate, / Instead of love's coy touch, shall rudely tear thee.
Derived terms
* coyly * coynessVerb
(en verb)- Come sit thee down upon this flowery bed, / While I thy amiable cheeks do coy .
- A wiser generation, who have the art to coy the fonder sort into their nets.