toyern.
/ˈtɔɪə/, U.S. /ˈtɔɪər/ A person who toys (in various senses of the verb); esp. a person who deals superficially or frivolously with something.
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the mind > emotion > love > flirtation or coquetry > [noun] > flirt
toyer1577
encounterer1609
philander1676
coquette1710
flirter1814
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > insubstantial > frivolous or not serious
pickstraw1580
Jack with the feather1581
fiddler1591
fribble1610
trifler1612
fribbler1712
toyer1814
frivolist1884
namby-pamby1885
frivoller1889
footler1891
frivol1959
1577 J. Grange Golden Aphroditis sig. E.ij Daughter mine, thine office is not to be occupied in warlik affaires, but aboute toyers & louers, wherfore attende about loue kisses, embracings and pleasures.
a1713 W. Harrison Passion of Sappho 5 in J. Nichols Coll. Poems (1780) IV. 183 Wanton Cupid, idle toyer.
1814 L. Hunt Feast of Poets 51 These toyers in versification.
1922 F. S. Fitzgerald Beautiful & Damned i. iii. 95 An unscrupulous and fundamentally unmoved toyer with affections.
2017 @carlottaclarice 30 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 17 Apr. 2020) Traitor, a toyer with life & death.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1577- to fall in two
- to fall in with
- to fall into
- to fall into a booby trap
- to fall into a misfortune
- to fall into a passion
- to fall into a person's eye
- to fall into bits
- to fall into chime with
- to fall into contempt
- to fall into dust
- to fall into etc
- to fall into fear
- to fall into hazard
- to fall into line
- to fall into mould
- to fall into oblivion
- to fall into place
- to fall into powder
- to fall into question
- to fall into staves
- to fall into step
- to fall into the hazard of
- to fall into the lap or laps of
- to fall into use