dummy

About 2.66 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A silent person; a person who does not talk.
2. noun A stupid person.

   Don't be such a dummy!

3. noun A term of address.

   Hey dummy, what's good wit chu?

4. noun A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
5. noun Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.

   To understand the effects of the accident, we dropped a dummy from the rooftop.

6. noun A person who is the mere tool of another; a man of straw.
7. noun A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.

   The hammer and drill in the display are dummies.

8. noun A pacifier; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}

   The baby wants her dummy.

Similar words

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Often followed by

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Word family

dummied dummies dummying