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• tokay
  tokay

  noun

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

  noun

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

tokay

¹ American  

[toh-key] / toʊˈkeɪ /

noun

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

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Tokay ² American  

[toh-key] / toʊˈkeɪ /

noun

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

2. Horticulture.

   1. a large, red variety of grape, grown for table use.

   2. the vine bearing this fruit, grown in California.

3. a sweet, strong white wine made in California.

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Tokay ¹ British  

/ təʊˈkeɪ /

noun

1. a fine sweet wine made near Tokaj, Hungary

2. a variety of large sweet grape used to make this wine

3. a similar wine made elsewhere

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tokay ² British  

/ ˈtəʊkeɪ /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of tokay

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

Example Sentences

Over the past few years, for example, Indonesia granted companies permission to export around three million captive-bred Tokay geckos annually.

From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2018

“Your Tokay what you ordered. Would you like me to make up the fire? It’s ever so cold in here.”

From Slate • May 26, 2017

Of course it is, yet bad taste was Zsa Zsa’s Tokay.

From The Guardian • Dec. 18, 2016

After World War Two, Zahava Szasz Stessel in the book "Wine and thorns in Tokay Valley" recounts how survivors returned home to find their houses occupied and their possessions taken.

From Reuters • Jul. 22, 2016

Together they crept through the great vaults where the College’s Tokay and Canary, its Burgundy, its brantwijn were lying under the cobwebs of ages.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman