Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
flirt, flirting, flirtation, coquetry, dalliance, toying
(noun) playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest
Source: WordNet® 3.1
toying
present participle of toy
toying (plural toyings)
The act of one who toys.
• yoting
Source: Wiktionary
Toy, n. Etym: [D. tuid tools, implements, stuff, trash, speeltuig playthings, toys; akin to G. zeug stuff, materials, MNG. zuic, Icel. tygi gear; all ultimately from the root of E. tug, v.t.; cf.G. zeugen to beget, MHG.ziugen to beget, make ready, procure. See Tug, v. t.]
1. A plaything for children; a bawble. Cowper.
2. A thing for amusement, but of no real value; an article of trade of little value; a trifle. They exchange for knives, glasses, and such toys, great abundance of gold and pearl. Abr. Abbot.
3. A wild fancy; an odd conceit; idle sport; folly; trifling opinion. To fly about playing their wanton toys. Spenser. What if a toy take'em in the heels now, and they all run away. Beau. &Fl. Nor light and idle toys my lines may vainly swell. Drayton.
4. Amorous dalliance; play; sport; pastime. Milton. To dally thus with death is no fit toy. Spenser.
5. An old story; a silly tale. Shak.
6. Etym: [Probably the same word.]
Definition: A headdress of linen or woolen, that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by old women of the lower classes; -- called also toy mutch. [Scot.] "Having, moreover, put on her clean toy, rokelay, and scarlet plaid." Sir W. Scott.
Toy, v. i. [imp. & p. p. toyed; p. pr. & vb. n. toying.]
Definition: To dally amorously; to trifle; to play. To toy, to wanton, dally, smile and jest. Shak.
Toy, v. t.
Definition: To treat foolishly. [Obs.] E. Dering (1576).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 April 2024
(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.