soy
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
1670s, from Dutch soja, from Satsuma Japanese 醤油 (そい, soi) [soj] (a variant of standard Japanese 醤油 (しょうゆ, shōyu)). Doublet of shoyu.
Noun[edit]
soy (usually uncountable, plural soys)
- A common East Asian liquid sauce, made by subjecting boiled beans to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water.
- Synonym: (US) soy sauce
- I like a little soy with my rice.
- 1902, Annie R. Gregory, Woman's Favorite Cookbook, page 381:
- Pour in four tablespoonfuls of sherry and four tablespoonfuls of soy, as much vinegar as the jar will hold, and cover closely until wanted.
- (uncountable, often attributive) 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.
Alternative forms[edit]
- (UK) soya
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
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See also[edit]
- khao soy (etymologically unrelated)
Adjective[edit]
soy (comparative more soy or soyer, superlative most soy or soyest)
- (Internet slang, derogatory) Characteristic of a soy boy; weak, unmasculine, etc.
- This whole drama is the soyest thing I've ever seen.
- 2021 February 5, u/GameBoy09, “Daily Dose does a face reveal on Dr. K”, in Reddit[1], r/LivestreamFail, archived from the original on 20 September 2023:
- His voice sounded kinda soy-ish but damn he has a god-like jawline.
- 2021 August 16, @HodlingCarla, Twitter[2], archived from the original on 20 September 2023:
- Happy Monday to everyone except those who support vax mandates, aka soy people.
- 2022 April 14, @EverydayWarren, Twitter[3], archived from the original on 25 April 2024:
- 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.
- 2023 January 28, u/TabNone, “Is anybody else both happy for Destiny's rising success, but also sad about what it's doing to the quality of the DGG community?”, in Reddit[4], r/Destiny, archived from the original on 20 September 2023:
- 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.
- 2023 February 7, @HMBohemond, Twitter[5], archived from the original on 20 September 2023:
- Even Reddit, the most soy place on the internet, is giving up on female Space Marines ever happening.
- 2023 June 6, u/potatoloafer, “New Noah Samson redpill shorts content features Destiny briefly and actually misses the point entirely”, in Reddit[6], r/Destiny, archived from the original on 25 April 2024:
- Noah Samson is just Hasan but even soyer (idk how that's even possible)
- 2023 July 5, @blvckledge, Twitter[7], archived from the original on 20 September 2023:
- threads soy asf ngl
- 2023 July 7, u/rpthrowah, “1/4 of the posts here are 18-25 year olds with hot takes about life experiences they've never had”, in Reddit[8], r/redscarepod, archived from the original on 25 April 2024:
- "I want a bad bitch bpd art hoe to RUIN MY LIFE" typed by the soyest man alive
- 2024 April 22, @bharattaxoffice, Twitter[9], archived from the original on 25 April 2024:
- Seething about beer and football is objectively far soyer than enjoying yourself like a normal person. If they stop following their team they're not going to automatically manifest as the Anglo Atatürk, they're just going to waste their time some other way
Verb[edit]
soy (third-person singular simple present soys, present participle soying, simple past and past participle soyed)
- (intransitive, Internet slang, derogatory, uncommon) Synonym of soy out (“to act in the manner of a soy boy”).
- 2021 May 24, u/Cro_Core, “I'm so fucking disappointed”, in Reddit[10], r/DotA2, archived from the original on 21 September 2023:
- Soying over a video game.
- 2022 September 21, @NeoWokio, Twitter[11], archived from the original on 21 September 2023:
- Oh I know the geeks are soying about their made up little war
- 2022 November 5, @doejens, Twitter[12], archived from the original on 21 September 2023:
- I'm soying so badly frfr
- 2023 July 2, @Kulesh0vEffect, Twitter[13], archived from the original on 21 September 2023:
- This guy makes surface level, boring videos for baby leftists to soy over. ¶ Zero depth
- 2023 July 26, u/notsofucked7, “No wonder conservatives hate it lol , it's coo bro, your girl already in my dms.”, in Reddit[14], r/VaushV, archived from the original on 21 September 2023:
- I make women cum by soying over this tedious cringey wine-mom humor movie
Etymology 2[edit]
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.
Noun[edit]
soy (uncountable)
- (Scotland, archaic) Silk.
- 1765, Thomas Percy, compiler, “Gilderoy”, in Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: […], volume I, London: […] J[ames] Dodsley […], →OCLC, book III, page 300:
- GILDEROY was a bonnie boy, / Had roſes tull his ſhoone, / His ſtockings were of ſilken ſoy, / Wi' garters hanging doune: […]
- 1840, Walter Prideaux, Poems of Chivalry, Faery, and the Olden Time, London: Smith, Elder And Co., page 126:
- Our tents are spread with gossamer thread, / More delicate far than silken soy.
- 1850 April, “The Cymbalier's Bride”, in Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art, volume VI, number 4, Philadelphia, P.A.: John Sartain & Co., →OCLC, page 267, column 2:
- 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.
Usage notes[edit]
- Typically used in the phrase "silken soy".[1]
References[edit]
- ^ “soy, n.2”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Anagrams[edit]
Azerbaijani[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Common Turkic *sōy. Cognate with Uyghur سوي (soy).
Pronunciation[edit]
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Noun[edit]
soy (definite accusative soyu, plural soylar)
- stock (lineage, family, ancestry)
- extraction (origin or ancestry)
- Synonym: əsl
- family
- Synonym: ailə
- generation
- Synonym: nəsil
Declension[edit]
Declension of soy | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
nominative | soy |
soylar | ||||||
definite accusative | soyu |
soyları | ||||||
dative | soya |
soylara | ||||||
locative | soyda |
soylarda | ||||||
ablative | soydan |
soylardan | ||||||
definite genitive | soyun |
soyların |
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- →? Khalaj: soy
Further reading[edit]
- “soy” in Obastan.com.
Middle French[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
soy
Descendants[edit]
- French: soi
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Spanish so, from Latin sum (“I am”). For the addition of /-j/, compare doy, voy, estoy.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
soy
- first-person singular present indicative of ser
- Yo no soy marinero, soy capitán.
- I am not a sailor, I am a captain.
Tocharian B[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *suHyús. Cognate with Tocharian A se, Old Armenian ուստր (ustr) and Ancient Greek υἱύς (huiús). Compare also the diminutive form soṃśke reflecting the alternative Proto-Indo-European root for "son".
Noun[edit]
soy m
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Turkish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish صوی (soy), from Common Turkic *soy, compare Old Turkic [script needed] (soy).
Noun[edit]
soy (definite accusative soyu, plural soylar)
Declension[edit]
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Dative | soya | soylara | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | soyda | soylarda | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ablative | soydan | soylardan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Verb[edit]
soy
References[edit]
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “soy”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
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