toey

adj
/təʊ.i/UK/toʊ.i/US

Etymology

From toe + -y.

  1. inherited from *deyḱ-✻ — “to show”
  2. inherited from *taihwǭ✻
  3. inherited from *taihā✻
  4. inherited from tā
  5. inherited from to
  6. suffixed as toey — “toe + y”

Definitions

  1. Agitated, anticipatory, excited (sometimes specifically sexually so), nervous.

    • “You’re toeyer than a chook caught in a swag.” She rolled her eyes. “I still don’t know what you mean.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for toey. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA