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toey
adjective- fast, fleet-footed AUSTRALIA
- [B]ounce the ball, shot down the flank, at which place a toey winger was rendered flat of foot by a long handball over his skull on the half-forward line, at which place I regained the bladder[.] — Jack Hibberd, A Stretch of the Imagination, p. 43, 1971
- restless; uneasy AUSTRALIA, 1959
From an earlier sense of “a racehorse keen to run” (1930). - We were shunting at Marree and I had a toey crew on. — Patsy Adam-Smith, Folklore of the Australian Railwaymen, p. 82, 1969
- anxious for sex NEW ZEALAND
- So I tapped my missus on the shoulder and she woke up with a “Oh no, don’t tell me you’er toey again, a woman can only take so much you know.” — Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, p. 48, 1995
- — David McGill, David McGill’s Complete Kiwi Slang Dictionary, p. 114, 1998
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