dummy

Examples

• All

• The ventriloquist and his dummy.

  Blog text (14)

• I find that the ladies are fascinated when I explain the contradictions to them with my vintage ventriloquist dummy.

  Blog text (2)

• Suppose your ventriloquist's dummy just won't talk... ...because he's a good man?

  The Guns of Navarone (1961)

• It was an old ventriloquist's dummy from the Trash and Treasure, blown out with everything else.

  Fiction book (1996)

• "The boy was making the dummy move its mouth for a while, like for a sentence, maybe—and then he moved his mouth the same way.

  Fiction book (1996)

• Whenever she struggled to communicate, her friends would still call her a dummy to cheer her up.

• Although he was often misunderstood, she reassured her friend, saying, 'You are not a dummy to me.'

Synonyms

M

mute

vsdummy

• Offensive

17 9.1

A person who cannot speak, often because they are deaf, now seen as offensive

refers to someone who does not speak regardless of physical inability

Idioms

T

to throw a dummy spit

• UK

9.9

Have a childish angry outburst when you do not get your way

Compounds

V

ventriloquist's dummy

1 8.6

A puppet moved by a person to make it look like it talks

D

dummy run

1 5.5

A practice test to find and fix problems before the real event

D

dummy whist

• Archaic

9.8

A card game for three players where one hand lies face up

D

dummy-proof

• Informal

6.5

Easy to use so people with no skill cannot make mistakes

B

baby's dummy

• UK

1.0

A rubber or plastic thing a baby sucks to feel calm

Surface Forms

Etymology