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toyi-toying

toyi-toying is the present participle and gerund of toyi-toyi.

Meaning of toyi-toyi

Verb

toyi-toyi (third-person singular simple present toyi-toyis, present participle toyi-toying, simple past and past participle toyi-toyied)

  1. (South Africa, Zimbabwe) To perform this dance.
    • [H]e stood with his back against the chanting, toyi-toying boys, arms outstretched as a shield before them: the sergeant strangely distracted by the old authority enacted the same stance, but to hold his men back.2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 30

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Questions about toyi-toying

What is toyi-toying the present participle and gerund of?
Toyi-toying is the present participle and gerund of toyi-toyi.

Words near toyi-toying in the dictionary

  1. Toygers
  2. toyhouse
  3. toyhouses
  4. toyi-toyi
  5. toyi-toyied
  6. toyi-toying
  7. toyi-toyis
  8. toyification
  9. toyifications
  10. toying
  11. toying with

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Adapted from Wiktionary: toyi-toying (page history and authors); toyi-toyi (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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