Puppet

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A small figure of a person or animal, having a cloth body and hollow head, designed to be fitted over and manipulated by the hand.
  • n. A figure having jointed parts animated from above by strings or wires; a marionette.
  • n. A toy representing a human figure; a doll.
  • n. One whose behavior is determined by the will of others: a political puppet.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings, rods or in the form of a glove.
  • n. A person, country, etc, controlled by another.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A small image in the human form; a doll.
  • n. A similar figure moved by the hand or by a wire in a mock drama; a marionette; a wooden actor in a play.
  • n. One controlled in his action by the will of another; a tool; -- so used in contempt.
  • n. The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A doll.
  • n. A little figure of a person, moved by the fingers, or by cords or wires, in a mock drama; a marionette.
  • n. Hence One who is actuated by the will of another; a tool: used in contempt.
  • n. plural Toys; trinkets.
  • n. The head-stock or the tail-stock of a lathe. See lathe.
  • To dress as a doll; bedeck with finery.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer
  • n. a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else
  • n. a doll with a hollow head of a person or animal and a cloth body; intended to fit over the hand and be manipulated with the fingers
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    figure    slave   
    Form
    hand puppet    glove puppet   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    doll    marionette    tool   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Muppet    muppet   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    marionette    doll    plaything    toy    farce    clown    coward   
     
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