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单词 toey
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Definition of toey in English:

toey

adjective ˈtəʊi
Australian, NZ informal
  • predicative On edge; ill at ease.

    voters being toey about foreign investment
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Normally there's a few jokes, a bit of talk, but that day the blokes were toey as all hell and it was eerie quiet.
    • We haven't told him yet as he can be a bit toey on such matters.
    • Understandably, US exporters get toey competing against their own cheaper goods, in essence, arguing that they face too much competition.
    • The poem is wonderfully funny in its sketch of our toey aggressiveness when we find ourselves overseas and out of our trees.
    • In fact, I'm pretty damn toey right now as it happens.
    • Old Bert tossed tails on the golf course and no one was prepared to tell his toey wife.
    • It seems he is entitled to be a little toey after the changes to the 6pm news last week in Sydney.
    • So it's not all a bed of roses coaching in the country, particularly with the kind of blokes we've got down there: they're very toey, very niggly.
    Synonyms
    anxious, disturbed, perturbed, troubled, bothered, distressed, concerned, upset, distraught, worried sick, disquieted, uneasy, ill at ease, fretful, fretting, agitated, in a state of agitation, nervous, edgy, on edge, like a cat on a hot tin roof, tense, overwrought, worked up, keyed up, strung out, jumpy, with one's stomach in knots, stressed, under stress

Rhymes

blowy, doughy, joey, showy, snowy, towy, Zoë
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