playtoy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A plaything.
Example Sentences
- "1724, William Burkitt, Expository Notes with Practical Observations on the New Testament, London, 1739, "Hebrews" Chapter 11, p. 742, [Moses] did not only […] at three Years old cast a Crown, [given] him for a Play-toy, to the Ground, and trample it under his Feet; but as the Apostle says here, when he came to be a Man, he treated it with no more Respect, but refused to be called the Son of Pharaoh’s Daughter."
- "'A nice play-toy that for a respectable girl' said the shocked parson, his lean fingers indicating the naked, maimed doll and its unabashed mother."
- "It took some time for the singers to come off their level of exaltation, but the minister stood resolute until the song unwound like a child’s playtoy and lay quieted in the aisles."
- "To blacks, adds Editor-Publisher Ida Lewis, Women’s Lib is merely “a playtoy for middle-class white women.”"