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Dummy   /dˈəmi/   Listen
noun
Dummy  n.  (pl. dummies)  
1.
One who is dumb.
2.
A sham package in a shop, or one which does not contain what its exterior indicates.
3.
An imitation or copy of something, to be used as a substitute; a model; a lay figure; as, a figure on which clothing is exhibited in shop windows; a blank paper copy used to show the size of the future book, etc.
4.
(Drama) One who plays a merely nominal part in any action; a sham character.
5.
An ignorant or thick-witted person; a foolish person; a dolt.
Synonyms: dope, boob, booby, pinhead, dumbbell.
6.
(Railroad) A locomotive with condensing engines, and, hence, without the noise of escaping steam; also, a dummy car.
7.
(Card Playing) The fourth or exposed hand when three persons play at a four-handed game of cards.
8.
A floating barge connected with a pier.
To play dummy, to play the exposed or dummy hand in cards. The partner of the dummy plays it.


adjective
Dummy  adj.  
1.
Silent; mute; noiseless; as a dummy engine.
2.
Fictitious or sham; feigned; as, a dummy watch.
Dummy car. See under Car.





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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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