toby
1 Americannoun
plural
tobies-
Also Toby jug a mug in the form of a stout old man wearing a three-cornered hat.
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Older Slang. a long, slender, cheap cigar.
noun
Etymology
Origin of toby
First recorded in 1830–40; generic use of proper name, short for Tobias
Example Sentences
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The single collection also included a glass bust, a Coalport vase featuring Churchill's ancestral home of Blenheim Palace and Royal Doulton toby jugs.
From BBC • Aug. 11, 2022
Photograph: toby farrow @ farrows creative Who are they?
From The Guardian • Aug. 11, 2011
In fact, every kind of a toby is represented, except a dry one.
From Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings by Northend, Mary H.
Then when he found the bank-notes and the Buddha and the toby jug with the unnumbered clippings belonging to them, he got almost as excited as I was.
From The Road to Understanding by Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman)
Heer is good Liker Ov awl Quinds toby sould, And sevile Yewzitch.
From The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany Parts 2, 3 and 4 by Novak, Maximillian E.
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