🦴 A very thin person 🧍 A line figure 🪵 A stick figure toy

stickman

4.5

A small figure of a person made by joining sticks or twigs

noun
/ˈstɪkˌmæn/

: muñeco de palos

The children made a stickman from twigs and decorated it with leaves.

Examples

She placed a handmade stickman on the windowsill as a cheerful ornament.
After the storm, only the stickman in the garden remained standing.
The child played with a stickman toy.
I saw a stickman figure in the park.
The children made a stickman from twigs and decorated it with leaves.
She placed a handmade stickman on the windowsill as a cheerful ornament.
The child played with a stickman toy during recess.

Synonyms

stick figure

vsstickman

8 2.6

A very simple drawing of a person using a circle for the head and lines for body, arms and legs

is a small three dimensional object made from twigs used as toy or decoration

How Complex

sculpture

37 3.4

figurine

37 5.3

stickman

4.5

toy

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

stickman singular

stickmen plural

Morphology

stickman = stick + man (transparent) = stick + man

A literal object made from sticks representing a person; the components directly predict the meaning.

Etymology

Stickman also comes from making a small person from twigs: stick ('a thin piece of wood') and man ('person'), which children and craft makers often do. That is why a stickman can be a toy or a little decoration made by joining sticks.