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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



... connected with it is solely the commander's affair. He is the only one who gets any fun at all—since he is the eye, the brain, and the hand of the whole—this single figure at the periscope. The second in command heaves sighs, and prays that the dummy torpedo (there is less trouble about the live ones) will go off all right, or he'll be told about it. The others wait and follow the quick run of orders. It is, if not a convention, a fairly established ...
— Sea Warfare • Rudyard Kipling
... most holy or reputable order. The boy was dumb. His lips had, however, at times a slight and tremulous movement, which strongly impressed the beholders that some discourse was then carrying on between "the dummy," as he was generally called, and his invisible relatives. His whole aspect was singularly painful and forbidding. No wonder, in these times of debasing superstition, that his person should be looked on with abhorrence, and even a touch from him be accounted an evil of no slight ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby
... took place between several rocky islands, that have probably been detached from the mainland by volcanic action, and the shore. The torpedoes were tried on dummy vessels, while a troop of soldiers stood guard at all the approaches to the place in order to prevent inquisitive individuals as well as Chilean spies, from learning the nature of the work going on. Don Nicholas ...
— The Story of Paul Boyton - Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World • Paul Boyton
... "Double dummy, by all means!" she laughed, perching her lithe length on the arm of a chair, one slender foot swinging slowly back and forth. "Your ...
— The Cab of the Sleeping Horse • John Reed Scott
... clap of thunder. The man's gaping mouth dropped the knife, and he stood stiffly long enough for the thought, "I've missed him," to flash through my mind before he tumbled clean out of the boat without touching anything, like a wooden dummy tipped by the heels. His headlong fall sent the water flying high over the stern of the dinghy. With the second barrel I took a long shot at the man sitting amazed, astride of the rail above. I saw him double up suddenly, ...
— Romance • Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer


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