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toytown, n. (and a.)|ˈtɔɪtaʊn|
Also toy-town.
[f. toy n. + town n.]
A model of a town used as a plaything; fig. a small or insignificant town; also (with capital initial) the name of a town featured in a series of books and radio plays for children by S. G. Hulme Beaman (1887–1932). Also attrib. or as adj.
1836[Miss Maitland] Lett. fr. Madras iv. (1843) 25 Cape Town is just like the Dutch toy-towns. 1864R. Browning Let. 22 Aug. in G. R. Hudson Browning to his American Friends (1965) 145 A toy-town with boulevards traced through the sand-hills. 1897‘S. Grand’ Beth Book (1898) xxiii. 207 The place..[had] a look of having been..set in order like a toy-town. 1928S. G. H. Beaman Tales of Toytown 53 ‘Did you tell him I am busy?’ the Mayor asked, laying down the copy of the Toytown News he had been reading. 1941Sun (Baltimore) 27 Nov. 10/7 The demonstration, in the [chemical warfare] school's ‘toytown’ buildings which simulate actual city conditions, is a regular part of the two-week course at the school. 1964W. Markfield To Early Grave (1965) xi. 191 Platters of marzipan cookies shone with a toytown brilliance. 1971R. Falkirk Chill Factor iv. 38 Austurvollur Square was still toytown with the little white Lutheran Cathedral. 1972Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 27 Oct. 19/4 The slums of Kingston are horrendous: hovels of cardboard and plywood, tiny packing-case houses like a stricken toytown. 1972‘S. Woods’ They love not Poison vii. 97 She..was..listening to a Toytown play on the Children's Hour. 1973Times 15 Nov. 25/6 The Treasury are also fairly unimpressed by it; they refer to it internally as ‘toytown money’. 1979Theatre Australia Apr. 30/1 A faux naif toytown set of kitchen cupboard colours clashed dismally with furniture. 1984Times 13 Mar. 17/1 This toytown situation became the occasion for a number of serious-looking people (all men, as it happened) in serious-looking suits to respond in a serious way to the questions of a sombre moderator. |