soy

Meaning

Noun

1. A common East Asian liquid sauce, made by subjecting boiled beans to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water.
2. Soybeans, or the protein derived from them.

Adj

Characteristic of a soy boy; weak, unmasculine, etc.

Verb

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

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sɔɪ/

Etymology

Etymology tree
Chinese 醬油／酱油 (jiàngyóu)bor.
Japanese 醤油bor.
Dutch sojabor.
English soy
1670s; borrowed from Dutch soja, from Satsuma Japanese 醤油 (そい, soi), variant of the standard Japanese 醤油 (しょうゆ, shōyu). Doublet of shoyu.