dummy

Plural: dummies

Noun

• a person who does not talk
• an ignorant or foolish person
• a figure representing the human form
• a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
• A silent person; a person who does not talk.
• A stupid person.
• A term of address.
• A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
• Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
• A person who is the mere tool of another; a man of straw.
• A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
• A pacifier; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby.
• A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
• A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
• An unused parameter or value.
• A feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent.
• A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player; a feint.
• A newborn animal that is indifferent to stimulus and does not voluntarily move.

Verb

Verb Forms: dummied, dummying, dummies

• To make a representation or model of something; to simulate.
• make a dummy of
  • "dummy up the books that are to be published"
• To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.
• To feint.

Adjective Satellite

• having the appearance of being real but lacking capacity to function
  • "a dummy corporation"

Adv

• Extremely.

Examples

• Don't be such a dummy!
• He would dummy a few words on the board before committing to his final play.
• Hey dummy, what's good wit chu?
• If flag1 is false, the other parameters are dummies.
• It's dummy hot outside.
• The baby wants her dummy.
• The carpenters dummied some props for the rehearsals.
• The hammer and drill in the display are dummies.
• The pronoun "it" in "It's a mystery why this happened" is a dummy.
• To understand the effects of the accident, we dropped a dummy from the rooftop.

Synonyms

blank, blank shell, boob, booby, dope, dumbbell, dummy up, pinhead, silent person, bink, binky, bo-bo, bro, comforter, dodie, dude, dumby, dumdum, dummy, juke, mannequin, marionette, nookie, paci, piece, pippy, soother

Related Words

dud, dumb, fake, feint

Anagrams of dummy