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单词 playing toy
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playing toy
a. An object for children to play with, often a model or miniature replica of something; a plaything. In early use more fully playing toy. Also figurative.Now the most common sense.
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?1565 A. Hartwell in tr. W. Haddon Sight of Portugall Pearle Ep. Ded. sig. Aivv Whose people blinding plaies & stratagemmes in sowyng of rumors, defaming of the persons, hastninge of prynted papers, myghte not (of reason) so wel lyke them, in that they are but crepitacula, childrens toies.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iv. sig. Nn3v There was neuer poore scholler, that hauing instede of his booke some playing toy about him, did more sodainly cast it from him.
1598 R. Barckley Disc. Felicitie of Man iii. 145 The ruggles and toyes, which children vse to playe with.
1631 Bp. J. Hall Occas. Medit. (ed. 2) (2nd state) §xcviii Wee cry for every toye; even that, which may most hurt us.
1672 R. Wild Poetica Licentia in Let. Declar. Liberty Conscience 29 We all know Popes-head-Alley trades in Toyes, Our Merchants come not thither, but our Boys.
1782 W. Cowper Hope in Poems 148 Men deal with life, as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
1881 R. L. Stevenson Child's Play in Virginibus Puerisque (1905) 157 Lead soldiers, dolls, all toys, in short, are in the same category.
1918 M. Buchanan City of Trouble i. 6 ‘What is an army for?’..‘Just a toy for Kings and Emperors to play with’.
1937 Amer. Home Apr. 106/4 A grand playroom where toys and things can be scattered about without disturbing the serenity of the rest of the house.
2019 Swindon Advertiser (Nexis) 16 Dec. The pair walked to the back of the house, glancing at the brightly-coloured children's toys in the garden.
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