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toy mutch

Toy \Toy\ (toi), n. [D. tuid tools, implements, stuff, trash, speeltuig playthings, toys; akin to G. zeug stuff, materials, MNG. ziuc, Icel. tygi gear; all ultimately from the root of E. tug, v. t.; cf. G. zeugen to beget, MHG. ziugen to beget, make ready, procure. See Tug, v. t.]

  1. A plaything for children; a bawble.
    --Cowper.

  2. A thing for amusement, but of no real value; an article of trade of little value; a trifle.

    They exchange for knives, glasses, and such toys, great abundance of gold and pearl.
    --Abr. Abbot.

  3. A wild fancy; an odd conceit; idle sport; folly; trifling opinion.

    To fly about playing their wanton toys.
    --Spenser.

    What if a toy take 'em in the heels now, and they all run away.
    --Beau. & Fl.

    Nor light and idle toys my lines may vainly swell.
    --Drayton.

  4. Amorous dalliance; play; sport; pastime.
    --Milton.

    To dally thus with death is no fit toy.
    --Spenser.

  5. An old story; a silly tale.
    --Shak.

  6. [Probably the same word.] A headdress of linen or woolen, that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by old women of the lower classes; -- called also toy mutch. [Scot.] ``Having, moreover, put on her clean toy, rokelay, and scarlet plaid.''
    --Sir W. Scott.