dummy

(Engels)

Noun

1. (dated) A silent person; a person who does not talk.
2. A stupid person.
3. (slang) A term of address.
4. A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
5. Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
6. A person who is the mere tool of another; a man of straw.
7. A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
8. (Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK) A pacifier; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby.
9. A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
10. A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
11. An unused parameter or value.
12. A feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent.
13. (UK) A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player; a feint.
14. (attributive) A newborn animal that is indifferent to stimulus and does not voluntarily move.
15. A fairy chess piece that cannot move or capture, but can be captured and used to skip moving another piece.

Verb

1. To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.
2. To feint.

Adv

Extremely.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈdʌmi/

Etimologie (Engels)

From dumb + -y. Pacifier sense from dummy teat where dummy is in the sense of a nonfunctional replica.

Sinonieme

pacifier

puppet

idiot

fool

model

mannequin

moron

imbecile

soother

boob

dubbing

marionette

doll

front man

false

scarecrow

mockup

stooge

dummy up

pinhead

effigy

blank shell

dumbbell

booby

dope

straw-man

private agent personal agent

front man agent

binky

dolt

staw-man

pacifier

stupid

bogus

stand in

sham

simpleton

maquette

counterfeit

blank

comforter

manikin

mock-up

phoney

silent person

dunce

dumbness

chump

artificial

dram

Vertalings

Schnuller

mannequin

tétine

chupeta

chupete

manichino

smoczek

Attrappe

fopspeen

muñeco

πιπίλα

speen

sucette

🍭

stupido

tototte