plaything

plaything
    n 1: an artifact designed to be played with [syn: {plaything},
         {toy}]
    

Plaything \Play"thing`\, n.
   A thing to play with; a toy; anything that serves to amuse.
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         A child knows his nurse, and by degrees the playthings
         of a little more advanced age.           --Locke.
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110 Moby Thesaurus words for "plaything":
      Charlie McCarthy, agate, agent, ancilla, appliance, babe, ball,
      baseball bat, bat, battledore, bauble, blocks, boob, checkerboard,
      chessboard, chump, cinch, club, cockhorse, contrivance, creature,
      credulous person, cricket bat, cue, cull, device, die, doll,
      doll carriage, dummy, dupe, easy mark, easy pickings, fall guy,
      fish, fool, game, gewgaw, gimcrack, go-between, gobe-mouches,
      golf club, greener, greenhorn, greeny, gudgeon, gull, handmaid,
      handmaiden, hobbyhorse, implement, innocent, instrument,
      interagent, intermediary, intermediate, intermedium,
      jack-in-the-box, jacks, jackstones, jackstraws, kickshaw,
      knickknack, leadpipe cinch, lever, marble, marionette, mechanism,
      mediator, medium, midwife, mig, minion, monkey, organ, paper doll,
      pastime, patsy, pawn, pick-up sticks, pigeon, pinwheel, pretty,
      prize sap, puppet, pushover, racket, rag doll, rocking horse, sap,
      saphead, schlemiel, servant, sitting duck, slave, sport, steelie,
      stooge, sucker, taw, teetotum, tool, top, toy, toy soldier,
      trinket, trusting soul, vehicle, victim, whim-wham