toby, toby jug, toby fillpot jug
(noun) a drinking mug in the shape of a stout man wearing a three-cornered hat
Source: WordNet® 3.1
toby (plural tobies)
A drinking mug, in the shape of a human head with a hat atop.
(British, New Zealand) The valve that mediates the connection between a mains water-supply and a premises's own plumbing.
The road or highway.
(US, dated, regional) A kind of inferior cigar of a long slender shape, tapered at one end.
The Moorish idol, Zanclus cornutus
Any of several species of pufferfish in the genus Canthigaster
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Toby (plural Tobys)
A male given name from Hebrew.
(rare) A female given name from Hebrew.
A patronymic surname.
(chiefly UK) in the traditional Punch and Judy show the showman's (live) dog trained to take part in the puppet show and to carry a bag around the audience soliciting donations.
Toby
The superintendent of a street market.
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Source: Wiktionary
To"by, n.; pl. -bies (#). [Perh. from the proper name.]
Definition: A small jug, pitcher, or mug, generally used for ale, shaped somewhat like a stout man, with a cocked hat forming the brim.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
