'Plaything' definitions:
Definition of 'plaything'
(from WordNet)
noun
An artifact designed to be played with [syn: plaything, toy]
Definition of 'Plaything'
From: GCIDE
- Plaything \Play"thing`\, n. A thing to play with; a toy; anything that serves to amuse. [1913 Webster]
- A child knows his nurse, and by degrees the playthings of a little more advanced age. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'plaything'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- agate,
- agent,
- ancilla,
- appliance,
- babe,
- ball,
- baseball bat,
- bat,
- battledore,
- bauble,
- blocks,
- boob,
- Charlie McCarthy,
- checkerboard,
- chessboard,
- chump,
- cinch,
- club,
- cockhorse,
- contrivance,
- creature,
- credulous person,
- cricket bat,
- cue,
- cull,
- device,
- die,
- doll,
- doll carriage,
- dummy,
- dupe,
- easy mark,
- easy pickings,
- fall guy,
- fish,
- fool,
- game,
- gewgaw,
- gimcrack,
- go-between,
- gobe-mouches,
- golf club,
- greener,
- greenhorn,
- greeny,
- gudgeon,
- gull,
- handmaid,
- handmaiden,
- hobbyhorse,
- implement,
- innocent,
- instrument,
- interagent,
- intermediary,
- intermediate,
- intermedium,
- jack-in-the-box,
- jacks,
- jackstones,
- jackstraws,
- kickshaw,
- knickknack,
- leadpipe cinch,
- lever,
- marble,
- marionette,
- mechanism,
- mediator,
- medium,
- midwife,
- mig,
- minion,
- monkey,
- organ,
- paper doll,
- pastime,
- patsy,
- pawn,
- pick-up sticks,
- pigeon,
- pinwheel,
- pretty,
- prize sap,
- puppet,
- pushover,
- racket,
- rag doll,
- rocking horse,
- sap,
- saphead,
- schlemiel,
- servant,
- sitting duck,
- slave,
- sport,
- steelie,
- stooge,
- sucker,
- taw,
- teetotum,
- tool,
- top,
- toy,
- toy soldier,
- trinket,
- trusting soul,
- vehicle,
- victim,
- whim-wham