toytown
Britishadjective
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having an unreal and picturesque appearance
toytown chalets
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not deserving to be taken seriously
toytown revolutionaries
Etymology
Origin of toytown
C20: from Toy Town, the fictional setting of children's stories by Enid Blyton
Example Sentences
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While Barbieland was designed to look like a toytown California, sets such as Barbie's Dreamhouse were built and filmed in the UK studio.
From BBC • Nov. 15, 2023
Barbie's pink paradise, Barbieland, was designed to look like a toytown California.
From BBC • Sep. 19, 2023
For another thing, the bands that play immediately before and after Biffy are comically, chronically bad, coughing up grim variations of chest-beating, "Why didn't Mommy love me?" toytown scream-ups.
From The Guardian • Jul. 28, 2011
A couple of weeks earlier, Mrs Bad Science and I travelled to Dungeness, where a toytown narrow-gauge railway takes you to the base of a magnificent, enormous and terrifying nuclear power station.
From The Guardian • Nov. 20, 2010
After a short spell in a Holiday Inn, I find a house I can rent, on the rise behind Kitsilano Beach, one of those toytown houses that are bigger inside than they look.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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