soy

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/sɔɪ/

noun

A common East Asian liquid sauce, made by subjecting boiled beans to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water.

“These candles are made from soy.”

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soy saucesoy outsoybeansoya beansoyasoybean plantsojasoja bean
OriginDutch soja ← Japanese そや ← Chinese 醬油 /酱油o →
CommonScrabble 6
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Meanings

soy1

nounsoy (usually uncountable, plural soys)

plural soys · alternative soya

  1. uncountableusuallyA 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.

    1 more example

    Pour in four tablespoonfuls of sherry and four tablespoonfuls of soy, as much vinegar as the jar will hold, and cover closely until wanted.

    1902, Annie R. Gregory, Woman's Favorite Cookbook, page 381

    Synonyms: soy sauce

  2. attributiveoftenuncountableusuallySoybeans, or the protein derived from them.

    These candles are made from soy.

    2 more examples

    The soy crop is looking good this year.

    This diet doesn't let me eat soy.

adjectivesoy (comparative more soy or soyer, superlative most soy or soyest)

comparative more soy · comparative soyer · superlative most soy · superlative soyest

  1. InternetderogatoryCharacteristic of a soy boy; weak, unmasculine, etc.

    This whole drama is the soyest thing I've ever seen.

    5 more examples

    His voice sounded kinda soy-ish but damn he has a god-like jawline.

    2021 February 5, u/GameBoy09, “Daily Dose does a face reveal on Dr. K”, in Reddit, r/LivestreamFail, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2023

    Happy Monday to everyone except those who support vax mandates, aka soy people.

    2021 August 16, @HodlingCarla, Twitter, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2023

    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.

    2022 April 14, @EverydayWarren, Twitter, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024

    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 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, r/Destiny, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2023

    Even Reddit, the most soy place on the internet, is giving up on female Space Marines ever happening.

    2023 February 7, @HMBohemond, Twitter, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2023
verbsoy (third-person singular simple present soys, present participle soying, simple past and past participle soyed)

present singular third person soys · participle present soying · participle past soyed · past soyed

  1. InternetderogatoryintransitiveuncommonSynonym of soy out (“to act in the manner of a soy boy”).

    I'm soying so badly frfr

    2022 November 5, @doejens, Twitter, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2023
    4 more examples

    Soying over a video game.

    2021 May 24, u/Cro_Core, “I'm so fucking disappointed”, in Reddit, r/DotA2, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2023

    Oh I know the geeks are soying about their made up little war

    2022 September 21, @NeoWokio, Twitter, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2023

    This guy makes surface level, boring videos for baby leftists to soy over. ¶ Zero depth

    2023 July 2, @Kulesh0vEffect, Twitter, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2023

    I make women cum by soying over this tedious cringey wine-mom humor movie

    2023 July 26, u/notsofucked7, “No wonder conservatives hate it lol , it's coo bro, your girl already in my dms.”, in Reddit, r/VaushV, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2023

    Synonyms: soy out

soy2

nounsoy (uncountable)
  1. ScotlandarchaicuncountableSilk.

    Our tents are spread with gossamer thread, / More delicate far than silken soy.

    1840, Walter Prideaux, Poems of Chivalry, Faery, and the Olden Time, London: Smith, Elder & Co., page 126
    2 more examples

    GILDEROY was a bonnie boy, / Had roſes tull his ſhoone, / His ſtockings were of ſilken ſoy, / Wi' garters hanging doune: […]

    1765, Thomas Percy, compiler, “Gilderoy”, in Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: […], volume I, London: […] J[ames] Dodsley […], →OCLC, book III, page 300

    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.

    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

Soy3

proper nounSoy (plural Soys)

plural Soys

  1. A surname.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA 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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soy sauce

verbSynonym of soy out (“to act in the manner of a soy boy”).

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soy out

More synonyms by meaning

nouna source of oil; used for forage and soil improvement and as food

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soybeansoya bean
Broader
bean

nounerect 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

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soyasoybeansoya beansoybean plantsojasoja beanGlycine max
Broader
legumeleguminous plant

nounthin sauce made of fermented soy beans

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soy sauce
Broader
condiment

nounthe 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)

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soybeansoyasoya bean
Broader
beanedible bean
Also see
sojasoja beansoybeansoy outsoy sauce

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

soy · noun, adjective, verb

  1. Chinese醬油 /酱油o
  2. Japanese醤油
  3. Japaneseそや
  4. Dutchsoja
  5. Englishsoy

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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soy · noun

  1. Proto-Indo-European*séh₂ito-
  2. Proto-Italic*saitā
  3. Latinsēta
  4. Old Frenchsoie
  5. Middle Frenchsoye
  6. Frenchsoie“silk”
  7. Englishsoy

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.

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Soy · proper noun

  1. TurkishSoy
  2. Khmerសយ“mane”
  3. EnglishSoy

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”).

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Translations

Arabic صُويَا
  • صُويَا (ṣūyā)soy beans — see also soybean
Bulgarian соя
  • соя (soja)soy beans — see also soybean
Catalan soia, soja
  • soiasoy beans — see also soybean
  • sojasoy beans — see also soybean
Chinese Mandarin 大豆
  • 大豆 (dàdòu)soy beans — see also soybean
Czech sója
  • sójasoy beans — see also soybean
Danish sojabønne
  • sojabønnesoy beans — see also soybean
Finnish soija, soijapapu
  • soijasoy beans — see also soybean
  • soijapapusoy beans — see also soybean
French soja
  • sojasoy beans — see also soybean
German Soja, Sojabohnen
  • Sojasoy beans — see also soybean
  • Sojabohnensoy beans — see also soybean
Greek σόγια
  • σόγια (sógia)soy beans — see also soybean
Hebrew שעועית סויה, פול סויה
  • שעועית סויה (sh'u'ít-sóya)soy beans — see also soybean
  • פול סויה (pol-sóya)soy beans — see also soybean
Hindi सोयाबीन
  • सोयाबीन (soyābīn)soy beans — see also soybean
Hungarian szója
  • szójasoy beans — see also soybean
Indonesian kedelai
  • kedelaisoy beans — see also soybean
Japanese 大豆
  • 大豆 (daizu)soy beans — see also soybean
Malay soya, kedelai
  • soyasoy beans — see also soybean
  • kedelaisoy beans — see also soybean
Māori hoi
  • hoisoy beans — see also soybean
Persian لوبیاروغنی
  • لوبیاروغنی (lubiyâ-rowġani)soy beans — see also soybean
Polish soja
  • sojasoy beans — see also soybean
Portuguese soja
  • sojasoy beans — see also soybean
Romanian soia
  • soiasoy beans — see also soybean
Russian со́я, со́евые бобы́
  • со́я (sója)soy beans — see also soybean
  • со́евые бобы́ (sójevyje bobý)soy beans — see also soybean
Spanish soja
  • sojasoy beans — see also soybean
Thai ถั่วเหลือง
  • ถั่วเหลือง (tùua-lʉ̌ʉang)soy beans — see also soybean
Turkish soya
  • soyasoy beans — see also soybean
Vietnamese đậu nành
  • đậu nànhsoy beans — see also soybean

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with soy

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Cite this entry
APA

soy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/soy

MLA

“soy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/soy. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “soy,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/soy.

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