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soy (iou)



soy noun. L17.
[(Prob. through Dutch) from Japanese var. of shoyu from Chinese jiangyou (Wade-Giles chiang-yu), from jiang bean paste + you oil. Cf. SOYA, SHOYU.]
More fully soy sauce. A sauce made from fermented soya beans. Also called shoyu. L17.
More fully (earlier, now chiefly N. Amer.) soybean. = SOYA bean. L18.
Comb.: soybean see sense 2 above; soy frame an ornamental stand with a ring frame used for holding a bottle of soya sauce; soy sauce: see sense 1 above.