plaything (n.)
- agate
- agent
- appliance
- babe
- ball
- bat
- battledore
- bauble
- boob
- checkerboard
- chessboard
- chump
- cinch
- club
- cockhorse
- contrivance
- creature
- cue
- cull
- device
- die
- doll
- dummy
- dupe
- fish
- fool
- game
- gewgaw
- gimcrack
- go-between
- greenhorn
- gudgeon
- gull
- handmaid
- handmaiden
- hobbyhorse
- implement
- innocent
- instrument
- intermediary
- intermediate
- intermedium
- jack-in-the-box
- jacks
- jackstones
- jackstraws
- kickshaw
- knickknack
- lever
- marble
- marionette
- mechanism
- mediator
- medium
- midwife
- minion
- monkey
- organ
- pastime
- patsy
- pawn
- pigeon
- pinwheel
- puppet
- pushover
- racket
- sap
- saphead
- schlemiel
- servant
- slave
- sport
- stooge
- sucker
- taw
- teetotum
- tool
- top
- toy
- trinket
- vehicle
- victim
What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel.
Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law,
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw;
Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight,
A little louder, but as empty quite;
Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage,
And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age.
Pleased with this bauble still, as that before,
Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.
