toyous

English edit

From toy +‎ -ous.

toyous (comparative more toyous, superlative most toyous)

(obsolete) Having little importance; trivial, pointless.
- 1602, William Warner, “The Fifth Booke. Chapter XXVII.”, in Albions England. A Continued Historie of the Same Kingdome, from the Originals of the First Inhabitants thereof: […], 5th edition, London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant for George Potter, […], →OCLC, page 134:
  This is my reſt: if more I knevv I ſhould but knovv too much, / Or build in my conceited brayne too high aboue my touch, / Or elſe againft the haire in all prooue toyous: […]

“toyous, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.