单词 | toy shop |
释义 | toy shopn. 1. A shop selling toys; = toy store n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop selling toys toy shop1681 toy store1822 toy land1853 playshop1889 1681 R. Baxter 3rd Def. Cause of Peace 80 Will there not be Children and indulgent Parents while the world lasteth? What Shops have more trading, or seldomer break, than Toy-shops, that sell Babies, and Puppets, and Hobby-horses, and Pipes? &c. and those that sell Perriwigs, Pide-silks and Ribbons? 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. iii. 55 I had an entire Set of Silver Dishes and Plates,..which, in Proportion to those of the Queen's, were not much bigger than what I have seen of the same kind in a London Toy-shop for the Furniture of a Baby-house. 1858 E. Bulwer-Lytton What will he do with It? i. xvi Lionel could not find in the toyshops of the village a doll good enough. 1940 D. Wheatley Faked Passports xxii. 262 It seemed a rotten business to shoot that harmless Bruin which was so reminiscent of a large teddy in a children's toyshop. 2019 Northern Daily Leader (Tamworth, New S. Wales) (Nexis) 4 May 21 The toy shop will sell goods that help children in problem-solving skills, nurture their creativity and imagination and develop fine and gross motor skills. 2. A shop selling trinkets, knick-knacks, or fashion accessories; a fancy-goods shop. Also (and in earliest use) in extended use. Cf. toy n. 6a. Now rare (archaic and historical in later use).Earlier currency may be implied in quot. 1681 at sense 1; it is likely that certain shops sold playthings as well as fancy goods. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop selling fancy goods or curios gaudy-shopa1627 toy shop1691 knick-knackatory1702 knackatory1709 bazaar1807 curiosity-shop1818 bric-a-brac shop1840 novelty store1874 novelty shop1893 odditorium1914 gift shop1918 curio-shop1920 1691 J. Dunton Parable of Top-knots 1/2 The Voice is Womans, but for the prating Figure I want a Name; I see a moving Pyramid of Gayities, a walking Toy-shop, a speaking Gallimaufry of Ribbons, Laces, Silks and Jewels. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 499. ⁋5 Ribbons, brocades, embroidery,..sufficient to have furnished a whole street of toy-shops. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1778 II. 247 We stopped again at Wirgman's,..a toy-shop,..he sent for me to..help him to choose a pair of silver buckles. 1812 Port Folio May 460 Venice was once the seat of opulence and traffic, the repository of gorgeous silks and of shining tissues, and in fact, the splendid toyshop of Europe. 1935 Aladdin & Wonderful Lamp One day Mrs. Aladdin thought that they might sell some of the lovely glass fruit and a plate or two to the toy shops. 3. figurative. A place of great variety; a repository of different things; an assortment of interestings things from which to choose. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored > specifically of immaterial things arkc1175 garnerc1175 cellara1387 aumbry1477 vein1533 armourya1586 arsenal1593 portmanteau?1602 repository1639 reservoir1690 toy shop1714 1714 A. Pope Rape of Lock (new ed.) i. 7 The moving Toyshop of their Heart. 1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott II. xxxix. 605 Sir Walter regretted having meddled in any way with the toyshop of literature, and would never do so again, though repeatedly offered very large sums. 1920 New Republic 3 Mar. 23/2 Me, who am so uncertainly feeling my way through the toyshop of modern theories that I am likely to be choosing among them all life long. 1986 B. Hambly Dragonsbane ii. 24 The room was a magpie-nest of picked-at knowledge, the lair of a tinkerer to whom the universe was one vast toyshop of intriguing side issues. 2008 Human Resources (Nexis) 4 Jan. 16 Just about everyone in a role that exploits the ability of the internet to emancipate their work is led down avenues of information into a toy shop of distractions. Phrases (like) a kid (also child) in a toy shop and variants: used to indicate that a person is excited by what is on offer, or has so many desirable or enticing options that it is difficult to make a choice.Cf. like a kid in a toy store at toy store n. Phrases, like a kid in a candy shop at candy n.2 Phrases 1. ΚΠ ?1785 J. Moir Gleanings I. xxv. 205 Such characters are in human society, like children in a toy-shop, just as intemperate in the choice of their trinkets, and not less disposed to abuse them when the fit is over. 1814 Maryland Gaz. 9 June Havresacks, shoes, bayonets, red epaulets, [etc.]..all lay around in such a confusion and chaos, that my friend & I were as children in a toy-shop not knowing what to take in preference. 1866 A. Fergusson ‘Crusher’ & Cross xviii. 133 Stepping into the place, he stared about him like a child in a toy-shop. 1989 C. S. Murray Crosstown Traffic 8 He was surfing his moment with the euphoric incredulity of a poor kid suddenly let loose in a toyshop. 2018 Daily Star (Nexis) 8 Sept. The ex-Broadchurch star said she was delighted to land the [Doctor Who] role, and she felt like ‘a kid in a toy shop’. Compounds (In sense 1). General use as a modifier, as in toyshop shelf, toyshop window, etc.; also with agent nouns, forming compounds in which toyshop expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in toyshop owner. ΚΠ 1730 J. Ralph Fashionable Lady ii. xx. 59 Must these poor Rogues wait here all the while like a Gang of gaping School-Boys at a Toy-Shop Window? 1813 Theatr. Inquisitor 2 124 Her arms..drop inanimate like the..limbs of a toy-shop harlequin. 1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond III. vi. 154 Esmond found the ante-chamber crowded with milliners and toy-shop women..mercers' men with hangings, and velvets, and brocades. 1922 World Fiction Aug. 15/1 I longed for a doll—just one doll—the cheapest and least painted on the toy-shop shelf. 2018 Wagga (Wagga Wagga, Austral.) Daily Advertiser (Nexis) 25 May 8 Liz decided to..make the switch from preschool teacher to toy shop owner. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1681 |
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