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Mannikin

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Variant of manikin.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. any of several Asiatic passerine birds of the genus Mannikin

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. See manikin.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a woman who wears clothes to display fashions

n. a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal

n. a life-size dummy used to display clothes

Word Usage

"The daughter, nine years old, and not above forty feet high, was very good natured, became my schoolmistress, and called me Grildrig, which imports in English, mannikin."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

small person dummy

Cross Reference

manikin mannequin

Form

nutmeg mannikin jerdon’s mannikin bronze mannikin white-rumped mannikin

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

dancin marrieds heheh this half-grin