toby
noun
Also Toby jug a mug in the form of a stout old man wearing a three-cornered hat.
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toby
1 American
[toh-bee]
/ ˈtoʊ bi /
noun
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tobies
plural
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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.
toby
British
/ ˈtəʊbɪ /
noun
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Etymology
Origin of toby
First recorded in 1830–40; generic use of proper name, short for Tobias
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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 Mary H. Northend
We may also compare toby jug and demi-john.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
A supposed example of the last named is included in the Page collection at Lynn, and is known as the Napoleon toby.
From Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings by Mary H. Northend
"The truth is out there, the evidence is there, we just need help putting it in front of the right people to get this justice for Toby that's needed," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Two years later, Oxford University philosophers William MacAskill and Toby Ord launched "Giving What We Can," encouraging people to donate at least 10 percent of their income to tackling global poverty.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
The pledge was created by Oxford philosophers Toby Ord and Will MacAskill, who in 2011 helped coin the term “effective altruism,” or EA.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
The revisionist approach of “Six Wives” has traveled beyond a scholarly audience: Portraits of the queens such as those in Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss’s musical “Six” owe much to Mr. Starkey’s perspective.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
So he wrote Maya-Jade a letter apologizing for what he’d done to Toby and for not telling her the truth about it.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
Also, on the happy chance that success might crown the night, a row of stout Tobies was set upon the board.
From Chimney-Pot Papers by Fritz August Gottfried Endell
Tobies are broadly classed as Staffordshire, and while this is probably true of a large portion, Dutch and German tobies as well as French ones are not uncommon.
From Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings by Mary H. Northend
Tobies show considerable variety in modeling and decoration.
From Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings by Mary H. Northend
Both the Tobies were away from home on a short visit, and Toni was obliged to proceed alone.
From The Making of a Soul by Kathlyn Rhodes
Her piercing tones, likened by the Tobies to those of a macaw, strove in vain for suavity.
From The Making of a Soul by Kathlyn Rhodes
Tobies are broadly classed as Staffordshire, and while this is probably true of a large portion, Dutch and German tobies as well as French ones are not uncommon.
From Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings by Mary H. Northend
There is a smoothness of texture and finish about the work which marks it as distinct from the English tobies, which unfortunately frequently lacked these desirable qualities.
From Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings by Mary H. Northend
English tobies are sometimes classified as young and old tobies.
From Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings by Mary H. Northend
Early as it was, crowds of American, English, and Continental tourists were abroad, their gleaming white drill attire and tobies and helmets, conspicuous among the grander colour of the natives.
From The Mark of the Beast by Sidney Watson
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