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▪ I. toying, vbl. n.|ˈtɔɪɪŋ|
[f. toy v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb toy; playing, sporting; trifling, idle or careless dealing (with anything), amorous dalliance.
1565–73Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Arguo, Digitorum argutiæ, toyinges or gesturinges of the fingers: often mouyng. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Ragement, wantonnesse, or toying. 1726Adv. Capt. R. Boyle (1768) 236 After our Toying was over, she told me she was afraid of losing me. 1840Carlyle Heroes ii. (1872) 67 Toying and coquetting with Truth: this is the sorest sin. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. xi, Slightly in contrast with this brief airy toying. 1911W. W. Peyton in Contemp. Rev. Sept. 374 Evil is in toying with imperfection.
▪ II. ˈtoying, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That toys; playful, sportive; esp. amorously sportive.
a1566R. Edwards Damon & Pythias Prol. 6 Frustrate quite of toying plaies. 1711Steele Spect. No. 155 ⁋4 None of these toying Fools will do any more..to preserve her from Infamy. 1769G. White Selborne xxii. (1853) 93 When the cock has been pursuing the hen in a toying way through the boughs of a tree.
Hence ˈtoyingly adv.
1731Bailey, Toyingly, triflingly, wantonly. |