Toy , v. i. [imp. & p. p.toyed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. toying.] To dally amorously; to trifle; to play.

To toy, to wanton, dally, smile and jest. Shak.

Toy , v. t. To treat foolishly. [Obs.] E. Dering (1576).

Toy (toi), n. [D. tuid tools, implements, stuff, trash, speeltuig playthings, toys; akin to G. zeug stuff, materials, MNG. ziuc, Icel. tygi gear; all ultimately from the root of E. tug, v. t.; cf. G. zeugen to beget, MHG. ziugen to beget, make ready, procure. See Tug, v. t.]

1. A plaything for children; a bawble.Cowper.

2. A thing for amusement, but of no real value; an article of trade of little value; a trifle.

They exchange for knives, glasses, and such toys, great abundance of gold and pearl. Abr. Abbot.

3. A wild fancy; an odd conceit; idle sport; folly; trifling opinion.

To fly about playing their wanton toys. Spenser.

"What if a toy takeem in the heels now, and they all run away." Beau. &Fl.

Nor light and idle toys my lines may vainly swell. Drayton.

4. Amorous dalliance; play; sport; pastime.Milton.

To dally thus with death is no fit toy. Spenser.

5. An old story; a silly tale.Shak.

6. [Probably the same word.] A headdress of linen or woolen, that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by old women of the lower classes; -- called also toy mutch. [Scot.] "Having, moreover, put on her clean toy, rokelay, and scarlet plaid." Sir W. Scott.

-- Webster's unabridged 1913