dummy.
A silent person; a person who does not talk.
Meaning & usage
A silent person; a person who does not talk.
A stupid person.
Don't be such a dummy!
A term of address.
Hey dummy, what's good wit chu?
A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
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.
A person who is the mere tool of another; a man of straw.
A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
The hammer and drill in the display are dummies.
A pacifier; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby.
The baby wants her dummy.
A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
The pronoun "it" in "It's a mystery why this happened" is a dummy.
An unused parameter or value.
If flag1 is false, the other parameters are dummies.
A feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent.
A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player; a feint.
A newborn animal that is indifferent to stimulus and does not voluntarily move.
a dummy calf, lamb, or foal
A fairy chess piece that cannot move or capture, but can be captured and used to skip moving another piece.
Where this word comes from
From dumb + -y. Pacifier sense from dummy teat where dummy is in the sense of a nonfunctional replica.
To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without all of the intended functionality.
The carpenters dummied some props for the rehearsals.
To feint.
Where this word comes from
From dumb + -y. Pacifier sense from dummy teat where dummy is in the sense of a nonfunctional replica.
Extremely.
It's dummy hot outside.
Where this word comes from
From dumb + -y. Pacifier sense from dummy teat where dummy is in the sense of a nonfunctional replica.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.