rod puppet
- noun
- /rɑd ˈpʌpɪt/
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títere de varilla
- During the performance, the rod puppet clapped its hands and interacted with the audience.
- rod puppet head
- animal-headed rod puppet
Examples
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By the early decades of the twentieth century, rod puppet animal heads and small rod and string puppets representing people, genies, and animals were stock forms in the masquerade repertoire.
Academic text (1994) -
This decorated structure represents the body of the animal and serves to hide the performer, who operates the rod puppet head from below as he dances the masquerade around the arena.
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The wood-carved sogobo rod puppet heads range in size from just under two feet up to six feet and more.
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These small puppets generally appear out of the top of the decorated structure and, like the large rod puppet animal heads, are animated from below by a series of rod and string mechanisms.
Academic text (1994) -
The children were amazed as the brightly colored rod puppet waved its limbs and danced on the stage.
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She carefully manipulated the rod puppet to tell a story about a brave knight and his dragon.
Synonyms
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A doll moved by hand or strings for shows
How Complex
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a puppet operated by rods' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'rod' (a long straight support) with 'puppet' (a manipulated figure); the noun-noun compounding follows a regular English composition pattern. There is no idiomatic or metaphorical shift and similar constructions exist cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Rod puppet comes from the simple picture of a puppet moved with sticks: a main rod holds the head while other rods move the arms and legs. So a rod puppet is a puppet 'operated' or 'controlled' by rods.