glove puppet
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- noun
- /ɡlʌv ˈpʌpɪt/
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títere de guante
- In the theater, a glove puppet danced around the stage, captivating the young audience with its playful antics.
Examples
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The children laughed as the performer used a glove puppet to tell funny stories during the show.
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Lucien explains that the whole Glycon cult was an enormous fraud, and that Glycon was a glove puppet.
Blog text (22) -
If I'm gonna have a god, I prefer it to be a complete hoax and a glove puppet because I'm not likely to start believing that glove puppet created the universe or anything dangerous like that.
Blog text (22) -
If I'm gonna have a god, I prefer it to be a complete hoax and a glove puppet because I'm not likely to start believing that glove puppet created the universe or anything dangerous like that.
Blog text (22) -
For one thing, he is the archetypal glove puppet: the range of his actions equals and interprets the range of movements and actions available to a human puppeteer's hands, wrists, and upper arms.
Academic text (1995) -
She skillfully manipulated the glove puppet, making it appear as if it were talking to the kids in the front row.
Synonyms
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A doll moved by hand or strings for shows
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A small puppet you wear on your hand and move with your fingers
A small puppet you wear on your hand and move with your fingers
A puppet made by putting a sock on your hand and moving it
How Complex
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a puppet worn over the hand' is directly and compositionally derived from combining 'glove' (a hand covering) with 'puppet' (a manipulable figure): it denotes a type of puppet that is a glove. This noun–noun type-of formation is transparent and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should understand the MWE.
Etymology
Glove puppet is a puppet you put on your hand like a glove, with your fingers inside making the head and mouth move. That's why the name links the glove part to how it is 'worn' and 'controlled' to make the puppet act alive.