toy n.1
1. the penis.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Two Angry Women of Abington G3: ms. bar.: I would to God that I could find her, I woulde keepe her from her loues toys yet. mal.: So you might, if your daughter had no wit. | |
| ‘Narcissus, Come Kiss Us!’ in Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) I 38: At length he did put his pretty fine toy / (I cannot tell where ’twas) below, / Into one of these ladies, I cannot tell why. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | ‘The New Dhooraling’ in A. Carpenter Verse in Eng. in 18C Ireland (1998) 400: Too long the Doodeen was the toast / Altho’ no more than an empty boast, / Sweet Dhoora now is the pleasing toy / Diverts the girls tho’ ever so coy. | |
| Satirist (London) 24 July 127/3: The Plaything, by the Countess of Warwick.—The size of the ‘plaything,’ in our opinion, is rather too large [...] A young girl is seen in the background, learning Ware’s song, ‘Tell me, have you seen a toy?’. | |
| New Epicurean 28: She [...] took the head of his noble toy in her mouth. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Amatory Experiences of a Surgeon 20: She with a slight jerk brought my stately toy into daylight. | |
| Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
| Sheaves from an Old Escritoire 98: We [...] settled down to staid home life, of course, enlivened by Charlie’s little toy. | |
 | ‘Bad Boy’ 🎵 He’ll tease you with him toy. |
2. a female partner, either mistress or wife.
| ‘Mr Smith to Cap. Mennis’ Wit Restor’d (1817) 124: When my Bettie dropp’s away (That fourteen years hath been my Toy) Some one I’le marrie. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Gleaner (Manchester, NH) 25 Nov. n.p.: [of a wife] if that toy of yours does not wish a chapter on her filthiness [...] she must keep at home and instead of tattling about her neighbours [etc]. |
3. the vagina.
| ‘Moggy’s Misfortune’ in Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) II 26: Thou’st have got a pretty Toy, / Which I’d willingly enjoy. | |
| Parson’s Wedding (1664) I ii: Why, he swore, he had a better opinion of her than to think she had her Maiden-head; but if she were that Fool, and had preserv’d the toy, he swore he would not take the pains of fetching it. | |
| Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk IV 46: But we can cherish lusty Yeoman, And carry toys like other women. | |
| ‘Alas How Long’ in Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) V 46: Alas how long shall I and my maidenhead lie: / In a cold bed all the night long! [...] Say a Maid were so crost, as to see this Toy lost, / Would not Hue and Cry fetch it again? | |
| Old Bachelor Epilogue: As a rash girl, who will all hazards run, / And be enjoyed, though sure to be undowne; / Soon as her curiosity is over, / Would give the world she could her toy recover. | |
| Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1985) 30: A whisper’d question, ‘whether I thought my little maiden-toy was much less?’. | |
| ‘They all Do It’ in I (1975) 262: You may gain her Female toy, / If once you Bung her Eye Sir. | |
| Cythera’s Hymnal 32: The sweet loving grips from her dear hidden toy. | |
| Tilly Touchitt 41: The maiden toy, which in common with all you naugty men, he coveted but to destroy. | |
| Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
| Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 167: Joujou, m. [...] 2. The female pudendum; ‘the toy.’. |
4. a prostitute.
| Life in London (1869) 314: [note] dirty Toys logic’s phrase for the unfortunate peep o’day women of the town, who wander about from one coffee-shop to another, till day-light breaks in upon them, and whose pockets are ‘full of emptiness.’ [Ibid.] 348: With the ‘Peep o’day boys,’ / Hunting up dirty Toys. | |
| Empty Wigs (t/s) 120: A Thai toy was giving me a massage. She finishes: she says you want masturbation? |
5. a watch; thus toy and tackle, a watch and chain.
| Sessions Papers 21 Sept. 546/2: James Boyce [...] said ‘The b—g—r has got no toy’; I had no watch . | |
| ‘Autobiog. of a Thief’ Macmillan’s Mag. (London) XL 505: He would not touch toys because we was afraid of being turned over (searched). | |
| ‘A Plank Bed Ballad’ Referee 12 Feb. n.p.: One day I’d a spree with two finns in my brigh, / And a toy and a tackle – both red ’uns. | |
| Child of the Jago (1982) 155: There was not one as would lief have put a scorpion in his pocket as that same toy and tackle. | |
| City Of The World 274: He’s got to know whether his toy and tackle is a real clock and slang or only a measly Brummagem fake. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | in Advertiser (Adelaide) 12 Apr. 24/7: A ‘toy and tackle’ [is] a watch and chain. | |
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). | |
| Fresh Rabbit 51: If connected to a chain it was a toy and tackle. |
6. a woman’s male lover.
| Sun. Times (Perth) 1 Oct. 1/4: The Haughty Highgate pill ‘widdy’ is going the pace a bit [...] her latest toy is a gay and dashing fang extractor. |
7. (US black teen) a gullible person, a fool; a novice.
| ‘College Sl. Words & Phrases’ in DN IV:iii 235: toy, n. An eccentric character; a comical fellow. | |
| ‘Personal’ 🎵 Toy, this ain’t Christmas, no time to play. |
8. in graffiti, anything or anyone second-rate.
| Getting Up: Subway Graffiti In N.Y. 76: The word toy is used by writers to refer to anything insignificant. Small pens are called ‘toy markers’; short-run trains, like the Times Square-Grand Central shuttle, are ‘toy trains’; and especially, toys is used to describe inferior or inexperienced writers. |
9. (Irish und.) a gun.
| Hitmen 251: ‘The only thing I don’t like, we’re sitting around with the toy in the car’. |
In compounds
a thief specializing in stealing watches; thus toy-getting n.
| ‘Autobiog. of a Thief’ in Macmillan’s Mag. (London) XL 502: The following people used to go in there [i.e. an underworld public house] — toy-getters (watch-stealers), magsmen (confidence-trick men), [...] and skittle sharps. | |
| Child of the Jago (1982) 91: Dicky knew the small man for a good toy-getter. [Ibid.] 155: The gains of the toy-getting trade were poor, except to the fence. | |
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
a young attractive man popular among older, richer women (or homosexual men); thus boy toy, which can mean the same or a young attractive woman, popular among older men.
| On Broadway 20 Aug. [synd. col.] ‘The brigand’ is routine Jack-and-Jill-odrama. Jody Lawrence is the boy-toy. | |
| Times 17 Apr. 11: They would like my comments on the phenomenon of ‘toy boys.’. | |
| Online Sl. Dict. 🌐 boy toy n 1. a male with whom one has an intimate relationship. Note: carries heavy sexual connotations, implies that the male is nothing more than a toy. | |
| Observer Mag. 30 May 15: She was blissfully happy with [...] her subsequent toyboy, Scott Harvey. | |
![[SA]](/static/img/flags/sa.png "South Africa") | Gayle 59/1: boy toy n. young man who is kept and supported by an older gay man in return for sexual favours. [Ibid.] 99/2: toy boy n. a younger male lover, who is usually supported by an older man. | |
| Rubdown [ebook] I would [...] shag myself silly with a succession of well built toy-boys. | |
| Beyond Black 169: ‘You got a toyboy, Mrs Etchells?’ Cara asked, giving Al a wink. | |
| Daily Mail 30 Jan. 🌐 ‘She’s the first girl I have been with.’ Gay toyboy insists [she] turned him straight. |
1. (US black) an officer cadet.
| Jive and Sl. |
2. (N.Z. prison) a prison officer.
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 192/2: toy soldier n. a prison officer. |