Toy With

  

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Toy With

Definition: Toy With

Toy With

Verb

1. Take into consideration, have in view; "He entertained the notion of moving to South America".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Toy With

Synonyms: entertain (v), flirt with (v), think about (v), think of (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Toy With

English words defined with "toy with": To hold in hand. (references)

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Modern Usage: Toy With

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Don't toy with Floris, Schwartz. (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Toy With

TitleAuthorQuote

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

He had done well to leave her to flirt with her priest, to toy with a church which was the scullerymaid of christendom.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translation: Toy With

Language Translations for "toy with"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

играя си с (fool around with, muck about with, play about with, sport with, twiddle one's thumbs). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(alley, lane, to do, to fix, to fool with, to handle, to manage, to mess with, to play with, to toy with). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

παίζω με. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"צטעצע (adorn oneself, play). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

játszik vmivel (to play with, to toy with sg), foglalkozik egy gondolattal (to toy with an idea), eljátszik egy gondolattal (to toy with an idea). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

玩弄 (make sport of, play with). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

が"ろう (make sport of, play with). (various references)

   

Manx

  

crimmey (degradation, eat slowly, erode, erosion, toy with food). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oytay ithway

   

Spanish

  

acariciar (canoodle, caress, chuck, cuddle, fawn on, fondle, hug, Pat, pet, snuggle, stroke, tickle). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Toy With

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "h-i-o-t-t-w-y"

-2 letters: whity, withy, witty.

-3 letters: thio, toit, towy, twit, whit, with.

-4 letters: hit, hot, how, hoy, tho, thy, tit, tot, tow, toy, two, who, why, wit, wot, yow.

-5 letters: hi, ho, it, oh, ow, oy, ti, to, wo, yo.

 Words containing the letters "h-i-o-t-t-w-y"
 

+5 letters: creditworthy, noteworthily.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Toy With


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 6F 79      57 69 74 68

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01101111 01111001 00100000 01010111 01101001 01110100 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#111 &#121 &#32 &#87 &#105 &#116 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 006F 0079      0057 0069 0074 0068

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

548191257758674

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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