单词 | toyman |
释义 | toyman|ˈtɔɪmən| [f. toy n. + man n.1] A man who sells toys, or who keeps a toy-shop: formerly, one who sold requisites for sports, trinkets, and fancy goods; latterly, one who makes or sells playthings for children (cf. toy-shop 1, 2).
1707Lond. Gaz. No. 4328/8 Ralph Ayscough, of St. James's Westminster, Toyman. 1710–11Swift Jrnl. 7 Jan., I will go to the toyman's here just in Pall Mall, and he sells great hugeous batoons. 1749Fielding Tom Jones xii. iv, The pocket-book..had cost five and twenty shillings, having been bought of a celebrated toyman. 1758Johnson Idler No. 6 ⁋5 The toyman will not give his jewels. 1813Shelley Q. Mab Notes, Poet. Wks. (1891) 41/1 The jeweller, the toyman, the actor gains fame and wealth by the exercise of his useless and ridiculous art. 1886C. E. Pascoe Lond. of To-day xl. (ed. 3) 347 Those admirable examples of the toyman's craft—whole garrisons of miniature soldiers, artillery, cavalry, and infantry. |

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