tokay

[ toh-key ]

/ toʊˈkeɪ /

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noun

a gecko, Gekko gecko, of the Malay Archipelago and southeastern Asia: sometimes kept as a pet.

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Origin of tokay

1745–55; <dialectal Malay tokeʔ<Javanese təʔkəʔ (spelling tekek)

Words nearby tokay

toise, toitoi, Tojo, tokamak, Tokara Islands, tokay, toke, Tokelau, Tokelau Islands, token, token economy

Other definitions for tokay (2 of 2)

Tokay

[ toh-key ]

/ toʊˈkeɪ /

noun

an aromatic wine made from Furmint grapes grown in the district surrounding Tokay, a town in NE Hungary.

Horticulture.

a large, red variety of grape, grown for table use.
the vine bearing this fruit, grown in California.

a sweet, strong white wine made in California.

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How to use tokay in a sentence

The reader is requested to look at Neisse; for besides the Tokay wine, there will things arrive there.
History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XII. (of XXI.)|Thomas Carlyle
The champagne seemed to flow in fountains, and was only interrupted that the guests might quaff Burgundy or taste Tokay.
Endymion|Benjamin Disraeli
It contained the precious wine of Tokay with which he filled the two glasses to the brim.
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume III (of 3)|Alexander Wheelock Thayer
The next year he died suddenly, in his wooden palace at Tokay.
A History of Germany|Bayard Taylor

I was little aware that he had, at that time, two hundred bottles of my best Tokay in his cellar.
The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck|Baron Trenck

British Dictionary definitions for tokay (1 of 2)

tokay

/ (ˈtəʊkeɪ) /

noun

a small gecko, Gekko gecko, of S and SE Asia, having a retractile claw at the tip of each digit

Word Origin for tokay

from Malay toke, of imitative origin

British Dictionary definitions for tokay (2 of 2)

Tokay

/ (təʊˈkeɪ) /

noun

a fine sweet wine made near Tokaj, Hungary

a variety of large sweet grape used to make this wine

a similar wine made elsewhere

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