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ticked and toyed

ticked and toyed is the simple past and past participle of tick and toy.

Meaning of tick and toy

Verb

tick and toy (third-person singular simple present ticks and toys, present participle ticking and toying, simple past and past participle ticked and toyed)

  1. (obsolete) To waste time; to dally or idle.

Questions about ticked and toyed

What is ticked and toyed the simple past and past participle of?
Ticked and toyed is the simple past and past participle of tick and toy.

Words near ticked and toyed in the dictionary

  1. tickboxes
  2. ticked
  3. ticked a lock
  4. ticked all the boxes
  5. ticked and tied
  6. ticked and toyed
  7. ticked away
  8. ticked by
  9. ticked down
  10. ticked off
  11. ticked on

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ticked and toyed (page history and authors); tick and toy (page history and authors). 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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