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dummy
- /ˈdʌmi/
Rhymes with -ʌmi
Where it comes from
From dumb + -y. Pacifier sense from dummy teat where dummy is in the sense of a nonfunctional replica.
noun dummies · dumbie · dumby · dummie
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A silent person; a person who does not talk.
The man's name […] was engraved in the centre, and beneath this, written in ink with the same elaborate precision as the engraving, there was a brief message.
I am a deaf-mute, but I read the lips and understand what is said to me. Please do not shout.
[…] Singer looked very carefully at his lips w
Similar: dumby
- A stupid person. Don't be such a dummy!
- A term of address. Hey dummy, what's good wit chu?
- A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
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Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
To understand the effects of the accident, we dropped a dummy from the rooftop.
Similar: mannequin, marionette
- A person who is the mere tool of another; a man of straw.
- A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one. The hammer and drill in the display are dummies.
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A pacifier; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby.
The baby wants her dummy.
Similar: binky, bink, bo-bo, comforter, dodie, dummy, nookie, paci, piece, pippy, soother
- A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
- A word serving only to make a construction grammatical. The pronoun "it" in "It's a mystery why this happened" is a dummy.
- An unused parameter or value. If flag1 is false, the other parameters are dummies.
- A feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent.
- A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player; a feint. Raul Meireles was the victim of the home side's hustling on this occasion giving the ball away to the impressive David Vaughan who slipped in Taylor-Fletcher. The striker sold Daniel Agger with the best dummy of the night before placing his shot past keeper Pepe Reina.
- A newborn animal that is indifferent to stimulus and does not voluntarily move. a dummy calf, lamb, or foal
- A fairy chess piece that cannot move or capture, but can be captured and used to skip moving another piece. In Monochromatic chess moves are only allowed between cells of the same colour. Thus the kings are reduced to ferses, the rooks to dabbabariders, and the knights to dummies. […] The fers and camel can reach all the cells of one colour. The others are more restricted; the dummy cannot move at all, an
verb dummies · dummying · dummied · dumbie · dumby
- To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without all of the intended functionality. The carpenters dummied some props for the rehearsals.
- To feint. The more glamorous qualities usually associated with him are skill and pace and he used those to race on to a ball across him and dummy a defender before having a right-foot shot saved.
adverb more dummy · most dummy · dumbie · dumby · dummie
- Extremely. It's dummy hot outside.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: unreal, blank, booby, boob, artificial, dummy up, dope, pinhead, dumbbell, blank shell, silent person, mute, silent, brainless, dumb, false
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noun bridge: the partner of the winning bidder, who shows his or her hand
| Español | muerto |
|---|---|
| Français | mort |
| Italiano | morto |
| Русский | болва́н bolván |
noun a silent person
| Español | silencioso, silente |
|---|---|
| Français | muet |
| Italiano | taciturno |
| Русский | молчу́н molčún, молчу́нья molčúnʹja |
noun a stupid person
| Español | tonto, estúpido, idiota |
|---|---|
| Português | idiota, imbecil |
| Français | idiot, idiote, imbécile |
| Italiano | stupido, scemo |
| Русский | дура́к durák, глупе́ц glupéc, ду́рень dúrenʹ, ду́ра dúra, болва́н bolván, ча́йник čájnik |
| עברית | גֹּלֶם gólem |
noun figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist
| Deutsch | Puppe |
|---|
noun something constructed with the size and form of a human
| Español | maniquí, muñeco |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 假人 jiǎrén |
| Português | manequim |
| Français | mannequin |
| Deutsch | lebensgroße Puppe, Dummy |
| Italiano | manichino, sagoma, fantoccio |
| Русский | манеке́н manekén, ку́кла kúkla, чу́чело čúčelo |
| العربية | دُمْيَة dumya |
noun a deliberately nonfunctional placeholder
| 日本語 | ダミー damī |
|---|---|
| Português | simulacro |
| Deutsch | Attrappe |
| Italiano | simulacro |
| Русский | маке́т makét, бутафо́рия butafórija |
| עברית | דֶּמֶה déme |
noun a feigned pass or play to deceive others in sport
| Русский | финт fint |
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