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Definition: TOYED |
TOYEDImperative & past participle1. Of Toy |
Date "TOYED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Crosswords: TOYED |
| English words defined with "TOYED": Babies in the eyes. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I've toyed with the idea of a ball and chain, but he'd probably just rattle them at me, and in public, too. (A Hard Day's Night; writing credit: Alun Owen) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Fit to Be Toyed (1959) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| "LightMouse 1" by Ashvin Jetpuria Commentary: "Toyed around this optical mouse of mine." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
John Gay | O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "TOYED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 82.41% of the time. "TOYED" is used about 108 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 82.41% | 89 | 34,931 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 17.59% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Total | 100.00% | 108 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "TOYED": toyed-around. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "TOYED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | spielte (gambled, horsed, trifled, twiddled), gespielt (assumed, feigned, mock, played, trifled). (various references) | |
Italian | giocai (twiddled). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oyedtay.(various references) | |
Spanish | jugueteo/. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "TOYED": tutoyed. (additional references) | |
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"TOYED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: joyed, oyed, soyed, tayer, teye, teyed, Toey, toiad, toide, toied, toked, Toya, toye, toyes, toyi, toyme, toyo, toyot, troye, tryed, tuyer, tyde, tyed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "TOYED" (pronounced toy"d) |
| 2 | -oy" d | annoyed, avoid, deployed, destroyed, devoid, employed, enjoyed, overjoyed, redeployed, steroid, underemployed, unemployed, void. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-o-t-y" | |
-1 letter: dote, doty, tody, toed. | |
-2 letters: dey, doe, dot, dye, ode, ted, tod, toe, toy, tye, yet, yod. | |
-3 letters: de, do, ed, et, od, oe, oy, to, ye, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-o-t-y" | |
+2 letters: destroy, modesty, notedly, stroyed, tutoyed. | |
+3 letters: aroynted, autodyne, copyedit, destroys, detoxify, devoutly, drystone, elytroid, holytide, idoneity, keynoted, modestly, odometry, oldstyle, outyield, oystered, petalody, storeyed, theodicy, threnody, thyreoid, udometry, wontedly. | |
+4 letters: adipocyte, arytenoid, asyndeton, autodynes, autolysed, autolyzed, bayoneted, bigotedly, boycotted, copyedits, cordately, cotyledon, decretory, deformity, destroyed, destroyer, desultory, deviatory, devotedly, directory, dosimetry, endophyte, endostyle, erythroid, euthyroid, feudatory, hideosity, holytides, hydathode, hysteroid, immodesty, jointedly, mediatory, modernity, molybdate, nonsteady, oldstyles, outplayed, outprayed, outstayed, outyelled, outyelped, outyields, pointedly, portrayed, predatory, pterygoid, rhytidome, roystered, tallyhoed, tediously, tippytoed, tourneyed, trolleyed, tutoyered, wyandotte, youthened. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Images: Digital Art | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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