1. plaything - Noun
2. plaything - Adjective
A thing to play with; a toy; anything that serves to amuse.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAdams 2002 pp. 55, 56 The Victorian historian James Anthony Froude saw Robert Dudley as Elizabeth's soft plaything, combining "in himself the worst qualities of both sexes. Source: Internet
A poor girl in desperate need of saving who, unlike Forrest, goes out into the world and ends up as a tossed-around plaything who eventually dies of Aids? Source: Internet
Concerned for the family reputation, Torvald insists that she fulfill her duty as a wife and mother, but Nora says that her first duties are to herself and that she cannot be a good mother or wife without learning to be more than a plaything. Source: Internet
Kay Francis plays Belinda Warren, the trusting plaything of a titled Englishman (Patric Knowles) with an invalid wife. Source: Internet
You’re taking one of the prized entertainment assets of an old colonial empire and turning it into a plaything, using it to paint a victorious face on your particular brand of postmodern fossil-fuel royalty. Source: Internet
It was a failure because the whole point of the takeover wasn’t to have the GOP as a plaything or a jobs program for right-wingers, but to actually move the country rightward. Source: Internet