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toby

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"Old mug"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /ˈtəʊbi/Part of speech nounSorted botyStarts with TEnds with Y1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Old-style drinking mug shaped like a seated figure.

Word origin

Borrowed from Shelta toba (“the road”).

Used in a sentence

  • 1931, Eric Blair (the real name of George Orwell), "Hop-picking" in The New Statesman of 17th October 1931. It is no wonder that itinerant agricultural workers travel on the toby and sleep in casual wards between jobs.
  • By my troth, Sir Toby, you must come in earlier o' nights: your cousin, my lady, takes great exceptions to your ill hours.
  • And for my own part, said my uncle Toby, though I should blush to boast of myself, Trim - yet had my name been Alexander, I could have done no more at Namur than my duty.

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