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# toby

«toby» in Mova's school dictionary: **a boy's name** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a toby jug, toby jugs); proper noun (Toby — a name)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Toby is a boy's name. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toby/#m1)

2) A toby jug is an old-fashioned china jug or mug shaped like a fat, jolly man wearing a three-cornered hat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toby/#m2)

3) Toby is the traditional name of the dog in Punch and Judy puppet shows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toby/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Mostly a name: a boy, a pet dog or a character in a story may be called Toby. Grandparents may collect toby jugs as ornaments. It is not a common everyday word otherwise.

### examples

- Toby is the new boy in our class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toby/#x1)
- Our dog is called Toby. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toby/#x2)
- Nan has a toby jug on the shelf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toby/#x3)
- The toby jug looks like a smiling old man in a hat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toby/#x4)
- Toby has 6 marbles and wins 4 more, so he has 10. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toby/#x5)
- In the Punch and Judy show, Toby is the dog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toby/#x6)

### note

As a name it needs a capital T. «Toby jug» is lower case. In maths problems, Toby is just a person's name; the numbers belong to him.

### In the corpora

- [Toby's friend says Fleming found penicillin and saved everybody in like a day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/65-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day/0/)
- [Toby says sharks can't get cancer.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/186-how-do-you-know/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «toby» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toby/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.