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Dummy
| Dummy Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Dummy?
[n] a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
[n] a figure representing the human form
[n] an ignorant or foolish person
[n] a person who does not talk
[adj] having the appearance of being real but lacking capacity to function; "a dummy corporation"
[v] make a dummy of; as of books or pages to be published
Synonyms | Synonyms for Dummy: artificial |
blank |
blank shell |
boob |
booby |
dope |
dumbbell |
dummy up |
pinhead |
silent person |
unreal
Related Terms | Find terms related to Dummy: a nobody |
a nothing |
ace |
adherent |
advocate |
affected |
agent |
alter ego |
alternate |
alternative |
amicus curiae |
analogy |
ancilla |
apocryphal |
appliance |
artificial |
ass |
assumed |
attorney |
backup |
backup man |
bastard |
best bower |
block |
blockhead |
Boeotian |
bogus |
bower |
brummagem |
burlesque |
bust |
cards |
carving |
champion |
change |
changeling |
Charlie McCarthy |
cheat |
cipher |
clay model |
clinquant |
clod |
clubs |
cold-type typesetting |
colorable |
colored |
common man |
comparison |
composing |
composing stick |
composition |
computerized typesetting |
contrivance |
copy |
counterfeit |
counterfeited |
creature |
deaf-mute |
deck |
deputy |
deuce |
device |
diamonds |
dimwit |
disciple |
distorted |
doll |
dolly |
dolt |
donkey |
dope |
double |
dressed up |
dud |
dullard |
dullhead |
dumb cluck |
dumbbell |
dummkopf |
dunce |
dupe |
duplication |
embellished |
embroidered |
equal |
equivalent |
ersatz |
exchange |
executive officer |
exponent |
face cards |
facsimile |
factitious |
fake |
faked |
fakement |
false |
falsified |
fantoccini |
feigned |
fictitious |
fictive |
figure |
figurehead |
figurine |
fill-in |
flunky |
flush |
follower |
fool |
forgery |
frame-up |
fraud |
front |
front man |
full house |
furniture |
galley chase |
garbled |
ghost |
ghostwriter |
gillie |
gingerbread man |
go-between |
goon |
gowk |
hand |
handmaid |
handmaiden |
hanger-on |
hearts |
henchman |
hoax |
hollow man |
hot-metal typesetting |
idiot |
ignoramus |
illegitimate |
imitation |
implement |
imposition |
impostor |
insignificancy |
instrument |
interagent |
intermediary |
intermediate |
intermedium |
Intertype |
jack |
jackal |
jackstraw |
jobbernowl |
joker |
junk |
junky |
justification |
king |
knave |
knockoff |
lackey |
lackwit |
lamebrain |
lay figure |
layout |
left bower |
lever |
lieutenant |
lightweight |
likeness |
line of type |
Linotype |
little fellow |
little guy |
locum |
locum tenens |
looby |
loon |
make-believe |
makeshift |
man |
man of straw |
manikin |
man-made |
mannequin |
mannikin |
marionette |
mechanism |
mediator |
mediocrity |
medium |
metaphor |
metonymy |
midwife |
minion |
mock |
mock-up |
model |
Monotype |
monument |
moron |
mute |
myrmidon |
nebbish |
next best thing |
niais |
nincompoop |
ninny |
ninnyhammer |
nitwit |
nobody |
nobody one knows |
noddy |
nominal head |
nonentity |
nothing |
nullity |
numskull |
obscurity |
organ |
pacifier |
pack |
pair |
paranymph |
paraphrase |
parody |
paste |
pawn |
personnel |
perverted |
phony |
photocomposition |
photosetting |
phototypesetter |
phototypesetting machine |
picture cards |
pilot model |
pinch |
pinch hitter |
pinchbeck |
pip-squeak |
playing cards |
plaything |
pleader |
portrait bust |
pretended |
procurator |
provisional |
proxy |
pseudo |
punk |
puppet |
pushover |
put |
put-on |
put-up job |
quasi |
queen |
queer |
quoin |
relief |
replacement |
replica |
representation |
representative |
reprint |
reproduction |
reserve |
reserves |
ringer |
rip-off |
round |
royal flush |
rubber |
ruff |
runt |
sample |
satellite |
scarecrow |
scrub |
sculpture |
second in command |
second string |
secondary |
self-styled |
servant |
setting |
sham |
shoddy |
shrimp |
sign |
simpleton |
simulacrum |
simulated |
simulation |
singleton |
slave |
slug |
small fry |
small potato |
small potatoes |
snowman |
so-called |
soi-disant |
spades |
spare |
spares |
spurious |
squirt |
squit |
stand-in |
statuary |
statue |
statuette |
stooge |
stopgap |
straight |
stupid |
sub |
substituent |
substitute |
substitution |
succedaneum |
superseder |
supplanter |
supposititious |
surrogate |
swindle |
sycophant |
symbol |
synecdoche |
synthetic |
tentative |
thickwit |
thing of naught |
third string |
thug |
tin |
tinsel |
titivated |
token |
tool |
toy |
travesty |
trey |
trick |
trifle |
trump |
twisted |
typesetting |
typesetting machine |
unauthentic |
understudy |
ungenuine |
unnatural |
unreal |
utility |
utility man |
utility player |
vehicle |
version |
vicar |
vicar general |
vicarious |
vice |
vicegerent |
vice-president |
vice-regent |
votary |
warped |
wax figure |
waxwork |
whiffet |
whippersnapper |
whited sepulcher |
witling |
wood carving |
wood model |
yes-man |
zero
See Also | cartridge |
create |
deaf-and-dumb person |
deaf-mute |
figure |
form |
lay figure |
make |
manakin |
manikin |
mannequin |
mannikin |
mute |
produce |
simple |
simpleton |
ventriloquist's dummy
Dummy In Webster's Dictionary
\Dum"my\, a. [See {Dumb}.]
1. Silent; mute; noiseless; as a dummy engine.
2. Fictitious or sham; feigned; as, a dummy watch.
{Dummy car}. See under {Car}.
\Dum"my\, n.; pl. {Dummies}.
1. One who is dumb. --H. Smith.
2. A sham package in a shop, or one which does not contain
what its exterior indicates.
3. An imitation or copy of something, to be used as a
substitute; a model; a lay figure; as, a figure on which
clothing is exhibited in shop windows; a blank paper copy
used to show the size of the future book, etc.
4. (Drama) One who plays a merely nominal part in any action;
a sham character.
5. A thick-witted person; a dolt. [Colloq.]
6. (Railroad) A locomotive with condensing engines, and,
hence, without the noise of escaping steam; also, a dummy
car.
7. (Card Playing) The fourth or exposed hand when three
persons play at a four-handed game of cards.
8. A floating barge connected with a pier. --Knight.
{To play dummy}, to play the exposed or dummy hand in cards.
The partner of the dummy plays it.
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