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Definition: Toying |
ToyingNoun1. Playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "toying" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: ToyingSynonyms: coquetry (n), dalliance (n), flirt (n), flirtation (n), flirting (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Toying |
| English words defined with "toying": Toyingly. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "toying": game of backgammon. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I wasn't toying with her sir, I wouldn't -- pardon me, how old are you, sir (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman) Toying with me (Se7en; writing credit: Andrew Kevin Walker) I am sitting here, Mr.Cook, toying with the idea of cutting out your heart, and stuffing it, like an olive (Nothing Sacred; writing credit: James H. Street; Ben Hecht) Oh, is he the tall backwards boy always toying with toads and things (The Lady Eve; writing credit: Monckton Hoffe; Preston Sturges) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Toying Around (1992) | |
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Books | |
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| "Toying" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Toying" is used about 113 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 (-ing form) | 100% | 113 | 30,464 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "toying": be toying with. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
anal toying | 22 | gallery toying | 5 |
pic toying | 20 | herself plumper toying | 4 |
toying | 18 | blonde toying | 3 |
teen toying | 9 | pussy toying | 3 |
dildo insertion lesbian toying | 8 | tiffany toying | 3 |
dildo insertion toying | 7 | anal brunette teen toying | 3 |
toying woman | 6 | slut toying | 3 |
girl toying | 5 | big brunette titted toying | 2 |
lesbian toying | 5 | granny toying | 2 |
ass toying | 5 | bordello lesbian toying | 2 |
mature toying | 5 | technology toying | 2 |
sex toying | 5 | mom toying | 2 |
hole sex toying | 5 | lesbian redhead toying | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "toying"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | liebäugeln mit (be toying with, have smb.'s eye on, Ogle). (various references) | |
Manx | cloie lesh (toying with). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oyingtay.(various references) | |
Spanish | jugueteando. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trò giễu cợt, trò giỡn, trò chơi (play, toy), trò đùa bỡn. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Toying" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: othing, otomyine, royong, teaying, toing, toking, toming, Torigny, toving, toxing, toyi, toyings, tozin, Twohig. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "toying" (pronounced toy"ing) |
| 3 | -oy" i ng | annoying, buoying, cloying, deploying, destroying, employing, enjoying, joying, redeploying. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-n-o-t-y" | |
-1 letter: ingot, tigon, tying, yogin. | |
-2 letters: into, ting, tiny, tong, tony, tyin, yogi, yoni. | |
-3 letters: gin, git, got, goy, ion, nit, nog, not, tin, tog, ton, toy, yin, yon. | |
-4 letters: go, in, it, no, on, oy, ti, to, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-n-o-t-y" | |
+2 letters: antilogy, dotingly, gyration, hogtying, outlying, outvying, storying, stroying, toadying. | |
+3 letters: aroynting, astonying, congruity, genotypic, gyrations, keynoting, longevity, notifying, outbuying, outcrying, outflying, outlaying, oystering, signatory, trollying, trophying. | |
+4 letters: atrophying, autolysing, autolyzing, autopsying, bayoneting, boycotting, contiguity, covetingly, cytogenies, destroying, doubtingly, fortifying, generosity, gloatingly, goniometry, gyrational, ignobility, ignorantly, introfying, misogynist, mortifying, organicity, outpitying, outplaying, outpraying, outstaying, outyelling, outyelping, oysterings, poignantly, portraying, roystering, soothingly, sportingly, tallyhoing, torrefying, torrifying, touchingly, tourneying, toweringly, trichogyne, trigonally, trolleying, tutoyering, youthening. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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