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”).
Meanings
(Internet, derogatory) Characteristic of a soy boy; weak, unmasculine, etc.
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 2024 April 22, @bharattaxoffice, 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:
"I want a bad bitch bpd art hoe to RUIN MY LIFE" typed by the soyest man alive 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, r/redscarepod, archived from the original on 25 Apr 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. 2022 April 14, @EverydayWarren, Twitter, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024:
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:
Noah Samson is just Hasan but even soyer (idk how that's even possible) 2023 June 6, u/potatoloafer, “New Noah Samson redpill shorts content features Destiny briefly and actually misses the point entirely”, in Reddit, r/Destiny, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024:
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:
threads soy asf ngl 2023 July 5, @blvckledge, Twitter, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2023:
This whole drama is the soyest thing I've ever seen.
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:
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”).
Meanings
(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. 1902, Annie R. Gregory, Woman's Favorite Cookbook, page 381:
(attributive, often, uncountable, usually) Soybeans, or the protein derived from them.
ru со́евые бобы́ (soy beans — see also soybean) · ja 大豆 (soy beans — see also soybean) · sl soja (soy beans — see also soybean) · el σόγια (soy beans — see also soybean) · cmn 大豆 (soy beans — see also soybean) · he פול סויה (soy beans — see also soybean) · fi soija (soy beans — see also soybean) · pt soja (soy beans — see also soybean) · vi đậu nành (soy beans — see also soybean) · id kedelai (soy beans — see also soybean) · hu szója (soy beans — see also soybean) · fi soijapapu (soy beans — see also soybean) · da sojabønne (soy beans — see also soybean) · ca soia (soy beans — see also soybean) · my ပဲကျပ်ပျဉ် (soy beans — see also soybean) · mi hoi (soy beans — see also soybean) · pl soja (soy beans — see also soybean) · ro soia (soy beans — see also soybean) · hi सोयाबीन (soy beans — see also soybean) · tr soya (soy beans — see also soybean) · gl soia (soy beans — see also soybean) · ms soya (soy beans — see also soybean) · pms sòja (soy beans — see also soybean) · bg соя (soy beans — see also soybean) · oc sòja (soy beans — see also soybean) · ms kedelai (soy beans — see also soybean) · cs sója (soy beans — see also soybean) · de Soja (soy beans — see also soybean) · fr soja (soy beans — see also soybean) · th ถั่วเหลือง (soy beans — see also soybean) · ar صُويَا (soy beans — see also soybean) · km សៀង (soy beans — see also soybean) · ru со́я (soy beans — see also soybean) · de Sojabohnen (soy beans — see also soybean) · ca soja (soy beans — see also soybean) · es soja (soy beans — see also soybean) · fa لوبیاروغنی (soy beans — see also soybean) · he שעועית סויה (soy beans — see also soybean)
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”).
Meanings
(Internet, derogatory, intransitive, uncommon) Synonym of soy out (“to act in the manner of a soy boy”).
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:
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:
I'm soying so badly frfr 2022 November 5, @doejens, 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:
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:
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.
Meanings
(Scotland, archaic, uncountable) Silk.
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:
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: