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means A box or trunk built for stashing toys, which in practice functions more as a storage crater for everything that doesn't fit anywhere else.

from A plain compound of 'toy' (from Middle English 'toye,' originally meaning amorous play or a trifling thing, later narrowing to children's playthings) and 'chest' (from Old English 'cest,' a wooden storage box, itself borrowed long ago from Latin 'cista,' meaning a box or basket — the same root that gives us 'cistern'). No hidden story here: the furniture did exactly what the name says, until kids made it do something else.