soy
/sɔɪ/
soy noun: a common East Asian liquid sauce, made by subjecting boiled beans to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water.
Noun (1)
soy (usually uncountable, plural soys)
- A common East Asian liquid sauce, made by subjecting boiled beans to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water.
- I like a little soy with my rice.
- Pour in four tablespoonfuls of sherry and four tablespoonfuls of soy, as much vinegar as the jar will hold, and cover closely until wanted.1902, Annie R. Gregory, Woman's Favorite Cookbook, page 381
- Synonyms:
- soy sauce
- Soybeans, or the protein derived from them.
- These candles are made from soy.
- The soy crop is looking good this year.
Adjective
soy (comparative more soy or soyer, superlative most soy or soyest)
- Characteristic of a soy boy; weak, unmasculine, etc.
- This whole drama is the soyest thing I've ever seen.
- His voice sounded kinda soy-ish but damn he has a god-like jawline.2021 February 5, u/GameBoy09, “Daily Dose does a face reveal on Dr. K”, in Reddit, r/LivestreamFail, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2023
Verb
soy (third-person singular simple present soys, present participle soying, simple past and past participle soyed)
- Synonym of soy out (“to act in the manner of a soy boy”).
- Soying over a video game.2021 May 24, u/Cro_Core, “I'm so fucking disappointed”, in Reddit, r/DotA2, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2023
- Oh I know the geeks are soying about their made up little war2022 September 21, @NeoWokio, Twitter, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2023
- Synonyms:
- soy out
Noun (2)
soy (uncountable)
- Silk.
- GILDEROY was a bonnie boy, / Had roſes tull his ſhoone, / His ſtockings were of ſilken ſoy, / Wi' garters hanging doune: […]1765, Thomas Percy, compiler, “Gilderoy”, in Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: […], volume I, London: […] J[ames] Dodsley […], →OCLC, book III, page 300
- Our tents are spread with gossamer thread, / More delicate far than silken soy.1840, Walter Prideaux, Poems of Chivalry, Faery, and the Olden Time, London: Smith, Elder & Co., page 126
Proper noun capitalized: Soy
Soy (plural Soys)
- A surname.
soy meaning in Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada
soy in Hindi
- soy beans — see also soybean
- सोयाबीन soyābīn
soy in Telugu
- సోయ్, సోయాకు, సోయాకి
soy in Malayalam
- സോയ്
soy in Kannada
- ಸೋಯ್ಗೆ
More languagesFewer languages
- soy in Gujarati
- સોયાને
- soy in Odia
- ସୋଯ଼ାକୁ
- soy in Nepali
- सोया, सोय, सोयालाई
- soy in Arabic
- صُويَا ṣūyā
- soy in Malay
- soya, kedelai
- soy in Indonesian
- kedelai
- soy in Persian
- لوبیاروغنی lubiyâ-rowġani
- soy in Thai
- ถั่วเหลือง tùua-lʉ̌ʉang
- soy in Vietnamese
- đậu nành
- soy in Myanmar
- ပဲကျပ်ပျဉ် pai:kyappyany
Examples of soy in a sentence
- This diet doesn't let me eat soy.
- Happy Monday to everyone except those who support vax mandates, aka soy people.2021 August 16, @HodlingCarla, Twitter, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2023:
- Plus people are generally more concerned with not appearing soy than anything else.2023 January 28, u/TabNone, “Is anybody else both happy for Destiny's rising success, but also sad about what it's doing to the quality of...
- Even Reddit, the most soy place on the internet, is giving up on female Space Marines ever happening.2023 February 7, @HMBohemond, Twitter, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2023:
- Noah Samson is just Hasan but even soyer (idk how that's even possible)2023 June 6, u/potatoloafer, “New Noah Samson redpill shorts content features Destiny briefly and actually misses the point entirely”, in...
Synonyms of soy
Forms of soy
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | soys |
| alternative form | soya |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more soy |
| comparative | soyer |
| superlative | most soy |
| superlative | soyest |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | soys |
| present participle | soying |
| past participle | soyed |
| past | soyed |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Soys |
Origin of soy
1670s; borrowed from Dutch soja, from the Satsuma pronunciation of Japanese 醤油 (soi), variant of the standard Japanese 醤油 (shōyu). Doublet of shoyu, orthographic borrowing from Middle Chinese 醬油 (tsjàng-yuw), from 醬 (tsjangᴴ, “bean paste”) + 油 (“oil”).
Borrowed from French soie (“silk”), soye, from Middle French soye, from Old French soie, earlier seie, from Latin sēta, saeta, from Proto-Italic *saitā, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ito-, *sh₂éyto-, from *sh₂ey-, *seh₂i- (“to bind”). Doublet of seta.
Various origins: * Borrowed from Khmer សយ (sɑɑy, “mane”), probably a nickname. * Probably a clipping of Soya, a surname of Kashmiri origin. * Borrowed from Turkish Soy, a nickname from soy (“ancestry, lineage, descent”).
Words formed from soy
Phrases with soy
Words that rhyme with soy
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- JOI
- joy
- alloy
- Amoy
- cloy
- convoy
- deploy
- goy
- oi
- overjoy
- ploy
- travois
- ahoy
- annoy
- catboy
- Choi
- foxboy
- foy
- Hanoi
- hoi polloi
- kathoey
- poi
- Saint Croix
- Sukhoi
- accoy
- bok choy
- cocky's joy
- diaperboy
- doy
- Floy
- hoi
- hoo, boy
- hoy
- killjoy
- Kilroy
- koi
- loy
- man and boy
- noy
- oe
- oy
- pick-me boy
- ploye
- po' boy
- puppyboy
- Savoie
- stroy
- sugoi
Questions about soy
- What does soy mean?
- Soy means a common East Asian liquid sauce, made by subjecting boiled beans to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water.
- What is soy in Hindi?
- Soy in Hindi is सोयाबीन (soyābīn). See Soy meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use soy in a sentence?
- This diet doesn't let me eat soy.
- What part of speech is soy?
- Soy can be a noun, an adjective, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce soy?
- Soy is pronounced /sɔɪ/.
- What is the plural of soy?
- The plural of soy is soys.
Words near soy in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: soy (page history and authors); Soy (page history and authors); soy (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); soy (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); soy (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); soy (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); soy (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); soy (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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