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tobies

tobies is the plural of toby.

Meaning of toby

Noun

toby (plural tobies)

  1. A drinking mug, in the shape of a human head with a hat atop; a Toby jug.
  2. (New Zealand, UK) The valve that mediates the connection between a mains water-supply and a premises's own plumbing.
  3. (UK, dated, slang) The road or highway.
    • It is no wonder that itinerant agricultural workers travel on the toby and sleep in casual wards between jobs.1931 October 17, Eric Blair, “Hop-picking”, in The New Statesman
  4. (US, dated, regional) A kind of inferior cigar of a long slender shape, tapered at one end.
  5. The Moorish idol, Zanclus cornutus
  6. Any of several species of pufferfish in the genus Canthigaster

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Phrases with tobies

Questions about tobies

What is tobies the plural of?
Tobies is the plural of toby.

Words near tobies in the dictionary

  1. Tobias
  2. Tobias acid
  3. Tobias night
  4. Tobias nights
  5. Tobie
  6. tobies
  7. Tobikhar
  8. tobiko
  9. Tobin
  10. tobine
  11. tobines

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tobies (page history and authors); toby (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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