soy
nounadjectiveverbnouncommon in dialogue
- //sɔɪ//
A common East Asian liquid sauce, made by subjecting boiled beans to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water.
noun
- 1
A common East Asian liquid sauce, made by subjecting boiled beans to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water.
I like a little soy with my rice.
Pour in four tablespoonfuls of sherry and four tablespoonfuls of soy, as much vinegar as the jar will hold, and cover closely until wanted.
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Soybeans, or the protein derived from them.
These candles are made from soy.
The soy crop is looking good this year.
This diet doesn't let me eat soy.
Etymology
Etymology tree Chinese 醬油 /酱油obor. Japanese 醤油 Japanese そやbor. Dutch sojabor. English soy 1670s; borrowed from Dutch soja, from the Satsuma pronunciation of Japanese 醤油 (soi), variant of the standard Japanese 醤油 (shōyu). Doublet of shoyu, orthographic borrowing from Middle Chinese 醬油 (tsjàng-yuw), from 醬 (tsjangᴴ, “bean paste”) + 油 (“oil”).
adjective
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Characteristic of a soy boy; weak, unmasculine, etc.
This whole drama is the soyest thing I've ever seen.
His voice sounded kinda soy-ish but damn he has a god-like jawline.
Happy Monday to everyone except those who support vax mandates, aka soy people.
I read this while drinking a Soylent protein shake for breakfast and I couldn't help but think to myself, mid sip, that this tweet really is the absolute soyest thing I have ever seen or consumed in any form in my entire life.
verb
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Synonym of soy out (“to act in the manner of a soy boy”).
Soying over a video game.
Oh I know the geeks are soying about their made up little war
I'm soying so badly frfr
This guy makes surface level, boring videos for baby leftists to soy over. ¶ Zero depth
noun
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archaicSilk.
GILDEROY was a bonnie boy, / Had roſes tull his ſhoone, / His ſtockings were of ſilken ſoy, / Wi' garters hanging doune: […]
Our tents are spread with gossamer thread, / More delicate far than silken soy.
Now two and two the host comes by; / And first the pikemen, stout and slow; / Next, under pennons flaunting high, / Barons in cloaks of silken soy / And caps of velvet go.
Etymology
Borrowed from French soie (“silk”), soye, from Middle French soye, from Old French soie, earlier seie, from Latin sēta, saeta, from Proto-Italic *saitā, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ito-, *sh₂éyto-, from *sh₂ey-, *seh₂i- (“to bind”). Doublet of seta.
Forms
- plural
- soys
- comparative
- more soy, soyer
- superlative
- most soy, soyest
- past tense
- soyed
- past participle
- soyed
- present participle
- soying
- third person singular
- soys
soy · A common East Asian liquid sauce, made by subjecting boiled beans to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water.
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