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Dummy   /dˈəmi/   Listen
Dummy

noun
(pl. dummies)
1.
A person who does not talk.  Synonym: silent person.
2.
An ignorant or foolish person.  Synonyms: boob, booby, dope, dumbbell, pinhead.
3.
A figure representing the human form.
4.
A cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet.  Synonyms: blank, blank shell.
adjective
1.
Having the appearance of being real but lacking capacity to function.
verb
1.
Make a dummy of.  Synonym: dummy up.



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"Dummy" Quotes from Famous Books



... was Faith's whispered answer. "Why, he stared at me as if I were a dummy instead of ...
— For Gold or Soul? - The Story of a Great Department Store • Lurana W. Sheldon
... middle of March something overheard by a white citizen led to the implicating of nine Negroes. These men were arrested and confined for the night of March 15 in a warehouse to await trial the next morning, a dummy guard of six men being placed before the door. About midnight a mob came, pushed open the door, and fired two volleys at the Negroes, killing four immediately and fatally wounding four more. The circumstances of this ...
— A Social History of the American Negro • Benjamin Brawley
... supers were paid liberally among the fir-trees by Vandeleur, pocketed their crape, flung their dummy guns into a cornfield, dispersed in different directions, and left ...
— A Terrible Temptation - A Story of To-Day • Charles Reade
... it is. I'm as bad as any of the sailors. Of course it's the brutes' nature; but I feel a thorough satisfaction when one is caught and killed; and if it was not that I don't want to have any firing just now, I'd go back and make some kind of a dummy with a ship's fender and some old clothes, and we'd pitch it overboard. It would tempt them to come at it, and we'd put in ball-cartridge and try a bit of shooting, and finish ...
— Jack at Sea - All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy • George Manville Fenn
... tutors, open each our copy, and, with all due emphasis and intonation, go regularly through the scenes of "She Stoops to Conquer." This was all the study we ever gave to our parts: and even thus it was difficult to get a muster of all the performers, and we had generally to play dummy for some one or more of the characters, or "double" them, as the professionals call it. The excuses for absenteeism were various. Mrs Hardcastle and Tony were gone to Woodstock with a team, and were not to be waited for; Diggory had a command to dine with the principal; and once ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 • Various


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