toyshop

[ toi-shop ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Origin of toyshop¹

First recorded in 1790–1800; toy + shop

World GDP (including North Pole toyshop gross output) is $84.97 trillion.

In the old days, of course, he would have taken a taxi off to a decent toyshop and chosen them something in five minutes.

She had seen a far, far truer picture of him when she had turned her head towards him in the toyshop.

Then he went to a toyshop and got a splendid family of fluffy beasts, and a musical box, and a Noah's Ark, and a flute.

Nothing of the sort happened, however, and he soon found himself before the gay windows of a toyshop.

He was jealous, too, of the toyshop keepers who were selling their handsome wares.

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