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entertoyment

noun

Etymology

Blend of entertainment + toy.

  1. derived from *dewk-✻
  2. derived from *teuhaną✻
  3. derived from *teugą✻ — “stuff, matter, device, gear, lever”
  4. derived from *tiugī̆✻
  5. derived from *tiug✻
  6. inherited from toye
  7. compounded as entertoyment — “entertainment + toy”

Definitions

  1. The phenomenon of popular entertainment (especially that which is intended for children)…

    The phenomenon of popular entertainment (especially that which is intended for children) linked to the mass marketing of tie-in toys and products.

    • The latest Disney entertoyment franchise is actually a remake of an earlier animated classic, "101 Dalmatians."
    • Of course, female characters are now fairly common in some crass "entertoyment" series like Pokemon, Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, and X-Men.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for entertoyment. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA