单词 | toyingly |
释义 | toyinglyadv. rare before late 19th cent. In a toying manner; light-heartedly, frivolously; playfully; flirtatiously. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > flirtation or coquetry > [adverb] > in an amorously sportive manner toyingly1565 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Lasciuus Wanton in behauour, or with women: lecherous in liuyng or woordes: dishonest: that speaketh or doeth thynges folishly and toyingly without regarde of vertue and honestie. 1876 C. R. Tuttle & D. S. Durrie Illustr. Hist. Iowa xlvii. 568/2 The little streams go toyingly along, meandering among the undulating slope. 1936 Tri-County News (King City, Missouri) 7 Feb. 3/2 It has been learned that one fair young maiden toyingly fondled the torpedo. 1979 J. C. Meagher in A. T. Davies Antisemitism & Found. Christianity (2004) 22 The dislike was escalated into an ideological—often a casually, abstractly, and toyingly ideological—readiness to punish them personally. 2016 Times (National ed.) (Nexis) 3 Dec. (Mag.) I say it toyingly with interviewers to see if they're idiotic enough to print it. And they normally are. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1565 |
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