puppeteer
16
5.7
- noun
- /ˌpʌpɪˈtɪr/
:
titiritero
- During the festival, the puppeteer captivated the audience with a charming story.
- puppeteer and puppet
This thing had to be worn and moved by a single puppeteer.
- This thing had to be worn and moved by a single puppeteer.
- That was a performers, that was some, you know, some voice over artists, actors, singers, dancers and puppeteers, stunt people.
- You know, like Obama's the puppeteer and Biden is his puppet.
- Would you be, you know, in his case, one of them were the the so-called puppeteers.
- It's almost like, I don't know, sometimes it feels like the the puppeteers, if you will, the people that Big Sugar, big tick.
Examples
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The puppeteer skillfully made the puppet dance across the stage.
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We need to talk to a puppeteer named Andre Toulon who can assist us.
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Craig sees a personal ad: "Male puppeteer looking for attractive female puppeteer for friendship, travel, and much, much more."
Fiction book (1999) -
The viewer's uncertainty about how life passes back and forth between puppeteer and puppet becomes part of the show.
Academic text (1997) -
The puppeteer's surprised smile stayed with me as a kind of talisman, a tessera of recognition.
Academic text (1997) -
The art of this theater demanded that the puppet resist any virtuosic display of the puppeteer's skill.
Academic text (1997) -
The children laughed as the puppeteer performed an amusing show with colorful puppets.
Synonyms
A person who moves puppets on stage to tell a story
A person who moves puppets during a show
How Skilled
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Puppeteer comes from puppet (a 'small doll') plus the ending -eer (a 'person who does' a job), like in auctioneer. So a puppeteer is a person who makes puppets move and perform in a show.