dummy
Part of speech: noun
verb
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
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chess
computing
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hobbies
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
rugby
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sports
Etymology: From dumb + -y. Pacifier sense from dummy teat where dummy is in the sense of a nonfunctional replica.
Base: dumb
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: dummies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dumbie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
form: dumby
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
form: dummie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
form: dummies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dummying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dummied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dummied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dumbie
pos: verb
tags: alternative
rare
form: dumby
pos: verb
tags: alternative
rare
form: dummie
pos: verb
tags: alternative
rare
form: more dummy
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most dummy
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: dumbie
pos: adv
tags: alternative
rare
form: dumby
pos: adv
tags: alternative
rare
form: dummie
pos: adv
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: A silent person; a person who does not talk.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: The man's name […] was engraved in the centre, and beneath this, written in ink with the same elaborate precision as the engraving, there was a brief message.
I am a deaf-mute, but I read the lips and understand what is said to me. Please do not shout.
 […] Singer looked very carefully at his lips when he spoke—he had noticed that before. But a dummy!
gloss: A stupid person.
pos: noun
examples: Don't be such a dummy!
gloss: A term of address.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Hey dummy, what's good wit chu?
gloss: A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
pos: noun
gloss: Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
pos: noun
examples: To understand the effects of the accident, we dropped a dummy from the rooftop.
"There's a remedy, it does try one, but never mind," said Gubjor; "I shall make a dummy baby, which I shall bury in the churchyard, and then the dead will believe they have got the child, take my word, they won't know but what it is the real baby!"
gloss: A person who is the mere tool of another; a man of straw.
pos: noun
gloss: A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
pos: noun
examples: The hammer and drill in the display are dummies.
The second method was to use two loadometers under the wheels of one axle, mounting the wheels of the other axle on what we called "equalizing blocks" or "dummies." By that method the two axles are brought into the same horizontal plane […]
gloss: A pacifier; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Ireland
New-Zealand
UK
examples: The baby wants her dummy.
Then on the fifth day, at the first sleep of the day, remove the dummy and follow my settling guide for your baby′s age. You should throw all her dummies in the bin to ensure you are not tempted to use them again – even outside sleep times.
No Fairy baby has ever been seen to suck its thumb or to use a dummy.
We′ve found that going cold turkey works best – you check that your baby isn't ill or teething, then throw all dummies away. When your baby cries for her dummy, you can look her in the eye and say, ‘It′s gone,’ and really mean it.
gloss: A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
pos: noun
gloss: A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
pos: noun
examples: The pronoun "it" in "It's a mystery why this happened" is a dummy.
gloss: An unused parameter or value.
pos: noun
examples: If flag1 is false, the other parameters are dummies.
gloss: A feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent.
pos: noun
gloss: A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player; a feint.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: Raul Meireles was the victim of the home side's hustling on this occasion giving the ball away to the impressive David Vaughan who slipped in Taylor-Fletcher. The striker sold Daniel Agger with the best dummy of the night before placing his shot past keeper Pepe Reina.
gloss: A newborn animal that is indifferent to stimulus and does not voluntarily move.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
examples: a dummy calf, lamb, or foal
gloss: A fairy chess piece that cannot move or capture, but can be captured and used to skip moving another piece.
pos: noun
examples: In Monochromatic chess moves are only allowed between cells of the same colour. Thus the kings are reduced to ferses, the rooks to dabbabariders, and the knights to dummies. […] The fers and camel can reach all the cells of one colour. The others are more restricted; the dummy cannot move at all, and the commuter can only move back and forth between two cells.
Everybody give the dummy a big round of applause.
gloss: To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.
pos: verb
examples: The carpenters dummied some props for the rehearsals.
gloss: To feint.
pos: verb
examples: The more glamorous qualities usually associated with him are skill and pace and he used those to race on to a ball across him and dummy a defender before having a right-foot shot saved.
For the first, the 30-year-old allowed Walcott space on the right to send in a pass that was expertly dummied by Samir Nasri, allowing Van Persie to swivel and smash right-footed past Robert Green.
gloss: Extremely.
pos: adv
tags: US
slang
examples: It's dummy hot outside.
Related words: dud
fake
feint
Derived words: beat the dummy
chuck a dummy
crash test dummy
dumminess
dummy bid
dummy bidder
dummy board
dummy car
dummy foal
dummy foal syndrome
dummy half
dummy it
dummy light
dummymander
dummy pronoun
dummy-proof
dummy run
dummy scissors
dummy spit
dummy subject
dummy text
dummy variable
dummy whist
sell the dummy
spit the dummy
tailor's dummy
test dummy
dummy out
dummy up
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: мор
roman: mor
lang: Finnish
word: lepääjä
lang: French
word: mort
lang: Irish
word: balbhán
lang: Italian
word: morto
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: blindemann
lang: Polish
word: dziadek
lang: Russian
word: болва́н
roman: bolván
lang: Spanish
word: muerto