toby
/ˈtoʊbi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.67 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The valve that mediates the connection between a mains water-supply and a premises's own plumbing.
New Zealand usage; British usage
noun
The Moorish idol, Zanclus cornutus
noun
Any of several species of pufferfish in the genus Canthigaster
name
A male given name from Hebrew.
name
A female given name from Hebrew.
Example Sentences
- "It is no wonder that itinerant agricultural workers travel on the toby and sleep in casual wards between jobs."
- "By my troth, Sir Toby, you must come in earlier o' nights: your cousin, my lady, takes great exceptions to your ill hours."
- "And for my own part, said my uncle Toby, though I should blush to boast of myself, Trim - yet had my name been Alexander, I could have done no more at Namur than my duty."
- "His name was Toby Bell and he was entirely alone in his criminal contemplations. [ - - - ] As to the Toby, which might by the sound of it set him higher on the English social ladder than his provenance deserved, it derived from nothing more elevated than his father's pride in the holy man Tobias, whose wondrous filial virtues are set down in the ancient scripts."
- "“How to hide, survive and use the urban environment as a sanctuary was a challenge but the soldiers adapted to the real-life challenges,” ETG Commander Col. Toby Till explained."
- "The Boy shakes his head and the Toby comes on to the market wielding a claw hammer."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
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Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈtoʊbi/
- British English: /ˈtəʊbi/