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soy

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Scrabble points
6
Words With Friends
5
Letters
3
Pronunciation
/sɔɪ/

Definition of soy

6 senses · 4 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable, usually)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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noun

  1. (uncountable, usually)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.”
  2. (attributive, often, uncountable, usually)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.”
  3. (Scotland, archaic, uncountable)Silk.
    “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.”

adj

  1. (Internet, derogatory)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.”
    “It's always hard to tell if it's the reality or if you're just misremembering, but yeah to me it feels like the quality has gone down since the red-pill arc for sure. Both in terms of the quality of some of the comments and the number of reactionary style right-leaning/centristy comments/posts. Plus people are generally more concerned with not appearing soy than anything else.”

verb

  1. (Internet, derogatory, intransitive, uncommon)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”
    “I make women cum by soying over this tedious cringey wine-mom humor movie”

name

  1. A surname.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

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”).

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