meaning of toy

1. A plaything for children; a bawble.
2.
A thing for amusement, but of no real value; an article of trade of little value; a trifle.
3.
A wild fancy; an odd conceit; idle sport; folly; trifling opinion.
4.
Amorous dalliance; play; sport; pastime.
5.
An old story; a silly tale.
6.
A headdress of linen or woolen, that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by old women of the lower classes; -- called also toy mutch.
7.
To dally amorously; to trifle; to play.
8.
To treat foolishly.
9.
toy A computer system; always used with qualifiers. 1. "nice toy": One that supports the speakers hacking style adequately. 2. "just a toy": A machine that yields insufficient computrons for the speakers preferred uses. This is not condemnatory, as is bitty box; toys can at least be fun. It is also strongly conditioned by ones expectations; Cray XMP users sometimes consider the Cray-1 a "toy", and certainly all RISC boxes and mainframes are toys by their standards. See also Get a real computer!. [Jargon File] Toy/Ada A compiler for a subset of Ada, written in SML/NJ by Amit Bhatiani at Rose-Hulman University. ftp://master. cs. rose-hulman. edu/pub/.
10.
any of several breeds of very small dogs kept purely as pets


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