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How to spell toy
Toy is spelled T-O-Y.
What it means: An artifact designed to be played with.
In a sentence: I played with my new toy car yesterday.
Same family: toy (noun), toying, toyed, play, imagine. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: The verb 'toy' comes from the noun 'toy', which in Middle English meant a trifling thing or playful action. Over time, it developed the figurative sense of playing with an idea or situation without being serious.
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