dummy

UK /ˈdʌmi/ US /ˈdʌmi/
noun 5verb 2adv 1

Definitions

noun

1

A silent person; a person who does not talk.

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!

2

A stupid person.

Don't be such a dummy!

3

A term of address.

Hey dummy, what's good wit chu?

4

A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.

5

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.

"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!"

verb

1

To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.

The carpenters dummied some props for the rehearsals.

2

To feint.

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.

adv

1

Extremely.

It's dummy hot outside.

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