You vs Toy - What's the difference?
you | toy |
(object pronoun) The people spoken, or written to, as an object.
* 1611 , Bible , Authorized (King James) Version. Genesis XLII:
* (William Shakespeare), Richard III :
* 1611 , Bible , Authorized (King James) Version. Genesis XIX:
* 1975 , Joseph Nazel, Death for Hire :
(object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.)
* (Thomas Malory), Le Morte Darthur , Book VIII:
(subject pronoun) The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.)
(subject pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.)
* (Geoffrey Chaucer), "The Clerk's Tale", Canterbury Tales , Ellesmere manuscript (c. 1410):
* 1814 , (Jane Austen), Mansfield Park :
(indefinite personal pronoun) Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object).
* 2001 , Polly Vernon, The Guardian , 5 May 2001:
The individual or group spoken or written to.
Used before epithets for emphasis.
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
As verbs the difference between toy and you
is that toy is to play (with) while you is to address (a person) using the pronoun you, rather than thou.As a noun toy
is something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child.As a pronoun you is
the people spoken, or written to, as an object.As a determiner you is
the individual or group spoken or written to.you
English
Alternative forms
* ye * ya, yah, yer, yeh, y', yo, yu (informal or eye dialect) * -cha * -ja * u * yoo (eye dialect) * yew * youe, yow, yowe (obsolete)Pronoun
- And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you , saying, Ye are spies [...].
- If I may counsaile you, some day or two / Your Highnesse shall repose you at the Tower [...].
- And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city.
- You'd better get you a gun and kill him before he kills you or somebody.
- I charge you , as ye woll have my love, that ye warne your kynnesmen that ye woll beare that day the slyve of golde uppon your helmet.
- Both of you should get ready now.
- You are all supposed to do as I tell you.
- certes lord / so wel vs liketh yow / And al youre werk / and euere han doon / þat we / Ne koude nat vs self deuysen how / We myghte lyuen / in moore felicitee [...].
- You' are right, Fanny, to protest against such an office, but ' you need not be afraid.
- You' can't choose your family, your lovers are difficult and volatile, but, oh, ' you can choose your friends - so doesn't it make much more sense to live and holiday with them instead?
Usage notes
* Originally, , respectively.) * In some forms of English, are all but nonexistent. * Although , or youse (though not all of these are completely equivalent or considered Standard English). * The pronoun is usually omitted in imperative sentences, but need not be. In affirmative imperatives, it may be included before the verb (You go right ahead''; ''You stay out of it''); in negative imperatives, it may be included either before the ''don't'', or, more commonly, after it (''Don't you dare go in there''; ''Don't you start now ). * See for other personal pronouns.Synonyms
* *: thou *: ye *: yer (UK eye dialect) * *: all of you (plural) *: you all *: you + number *: ye *: yous/youse *: y'all, all y'all (Southern US) *: ya'll (AAVE) *: you-uns (Midwestern US and Appalachia) *: yinz *: you guys/you gals *: you lot (UK) *: allyou (Caribbean) *: yer (UK eye dialect) * , ye, to you, to thee, to ye * ye, to you, to ye, to you all * (one) one, people, they, themDerived terms
* you'reSee also
(English personal pronouns)Determiner
(en determiner)- Have you gentlemen come to see the lady who fell backwards off a bus?
- You idiot!
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.
