toey

American  

[toh-ee] / ˈtoʊ i /

adjective

Australian Informal.

1. touchy or restive; apprehensive; fractious.

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toey British  

/ ˈtəʊɪ /

adjective

1. (of a person) nervous or anxious

2. (of a person) eager for sexual activity; aroused

3. rare (of a horse) eager to race

4. very anxious

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Etymology

Origin of toey

1920–25; originally in reference to a racehorse; perhaps toe + -y ¹

Example Sentences

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