toey
Americanadjective
adjective
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(of a person) nervous or anxious
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(of a person) eager for sexual activity; aroused
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rare (of a horse) eager to race
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very anxious
Etymology
Origin of toey
1920–25; originally in reference to a racehorse; perhaps toe + -y 1
Example Sentences
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This will help keep your body from lunging ahead of it, which causes those toey slices no matter what club you're using.
From Golf Digest ● Oct. 15, 2018
At Mondayoff, a Vietnamese restaurant in Brooklyn, co-owner Benjaporn Chua uses pandan in the marinade for gai yang bai toey, a traditional grilled chicken dish.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2017
In the bush a term of abuse; though curiously in one or two parts of New South Wales the word "toey," which is derived from it, is a term of praise, a "swell."
From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Morris, Edward Ellis
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