mannequin
Plural: mannequins
Noun
- a woman who wears clothes to display fashions
- "she was too fat to be a mannequin"
- a life-size dummy used to display clothes
- A dummy, or life-size model of the human body, used for the fitting or displaying of clothes.
- A jointed model of the human body used by artists, especially to demonstrate the arrangement of drapery.
- An anatomical model of the human body for use in teaching of e.g. CPR.
- A person who models clothes.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from French mannequin, derived from Old French [Term?] (“little man, figurine”), derived from Middle Dutch mannekijn (“little man”) (see English manikin), diminutive of man (“man”). By surface analysis, man + -kin. Compare ramequin/ramekin. Doublet of manakin and manikin.
Scrabble Score: 20
mannequin: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordmannequin: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
mannequin: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 25
mannequin: valid Words With Friends Word