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plaything(dictionary)

plaything (iou)



plaything noun. L17.
[from PLAY noun + THING noun1.]
A thing to play with, a toy; a person, animal, or thing treated as a thing to be played or trifled with.
A. R. Wallace Among our favourite playthings were pop-guns..and pistols. I. Murdoch She was the helpless plaything of great mechanical forces. A. S. Dale Chesterton's women do not yearn to own property...Neither are they the..playthings of husbands.