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adj
Characteristic of a soy boy; weak, unmasculine, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, derogatory
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Antonyms: none provided
name
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A common East Asian liquid sauce, made by subjecting boiled beans to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Synonyms: soy sauce
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Soybeans, or the protein derived from them.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: attributive, often, uncountable, usually
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noun
Silk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, archaic, uncountable
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verb
Synonym of soy out (“to act in the manner of a soy boy”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, derogatory, intransitive, uncommon
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Synonyms: soy out
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the most highly proteinaceous vegetable known; the fruit of the soybean plant is used in a variety of foods and as fodder (especially as a replacement for animal protein)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: soybean, soya, soya bean
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bean, edible bean
Narrower terms: field soybean
noun
thin sauce made of fermented soy beans
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: soy sauce
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: condiment
noun
erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers; extensively cultivated for food and forage and soil improvement but especially for its nutritious oil-rich seeds; native to Asia
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: soya, soybean, soya bean, soybean plant, soja, soja bean, Glycine max
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: legume, leguminous plant
noun
a source of oil; used for forage and soil improvement and as food
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: soybean, soya bean
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bean
History
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”).
Various origins: * Borrowed from Khmer សយ (sɑɑy, “mane”), probably a nickname. * Probably a clipping of Soya, a surname of Kashmiri origin. * Borrowed from Turkish Soy, a nickname from soy (“ancestry, lineage, descent”).
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.
Across languages
38 source translations are retained for this English entry.
