Dummy

Definition: Dummy

Dummy

Adjective

1. Having the appearance of being real but lacking capacity to function; "a dummy corporation".

Noun

1. A person who does not talk.

2. An ignorant or foolish person.

3. A figure representing the human form.

4. A cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet.

Verb

1. Make a dummy of; as of books or pages to be published.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dummy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Transportation

Aerospace

Computing

General

Industry

Law

Literature

Mining

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Dummy

Amusement

Bower; right bower, left bower; dummy; jackpot; deck.

Aphony

Noun: aphony, aphonia; dumbness; Adjective: obmutescence; absence of voice, want of voice; dysphony; cacoepy; silence; (taciturnity); raucity; harsh voice; , unmusical voice; ; falsetto, "childish treble mute"; dummy.

Impotence

Telum imbelle, brutum fulmen, blank, blank cartridge, flash in the pan, vox et proeterea nihil, dead letter, bit of waste paper, dummy; paper tiger; Quaker gun.

Inactivity

Idler, drone, droil, dawdle, mopus; do-little faineant, dummy, sleeping partner; afternoon farmer; truant; (runaway) : bummer, loafer, goldbrick, goldbicker, lounger, lazzarone; lubber, lubbard; slow coach; (slow.); opium eater, lotus eater; slug; lag, sluggard, slugabed; slumberer, dormouse, marmot; waiter on Providence, fruges consumere natus.

Substitution

Subs ersatz, makeshift, temporary expedient, replacement, succedaneum; shift, pis aller, stopgap, jury rigging, jury mast, locum tenens, warming pan, dummy, scapegoat; double; changeling; quid pro quo, alternative.

Crosswords: Dummy

Hungarian (dead man), Swedish (dummy).

Well, if you want to dummy it down like that, sure (Veritas: The Quest; writing credit: Brad Falchuk)

For a dummy, you make a lot of sense (Sanford and Son; writing credit: Earl Barret; Ted Bergman)

You are the dummy, dummy (Head; writing credit: Jack Nicholson; Bob Rafelson)

Oh come on, it's just a dummy grenade (Major Payne; writing credit: Joe Connelly; Bob Mosher)

Dummy up (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear)

Trickin for twenties young dummy and quick wit her lip (Get Away; performing artist: Jade)

The Dummy (1970)

Dummy Owner (1938)

Don't Be a Dummy (1932)

The Dummy (1929)

Don't Be a Dummy (1926)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• 116 Wingtsun Dummy Techniques demons. By Yip Man (reference)

• Bride of the Living Dummy (Goosebumps Series 2000 , No 2) (reference)

• Dummy Up and Deal: Inside the Culture of Casino Dealing (The Gambling Studies Series) (reference)

• Hybrid III: The First Human-Like Crash Test Dummy (Pt-44) (reference)

• My Name Is Not Dummy (Crary, Elizabeth, Children's Problem Solving Book.) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Dummy (reference)

• American Dummy (reference)

• Goosebumps: Night of the Living Dummy 3 (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Dummy (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Schlage F170VELA605 Elan Lever Dummy Set (reference)

• Schlage F170VGEO609 F-Series Georgian Dummy Knob (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Papier-mâché dummy used to teach dental hygiene. / [WHO photo]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Line engraving after a sketch by Theodore R. Davis, published in "Harper's Weekly", 1863, depicting the 25 February 1863 operation in which a dummy ironclad (left) was floated down the Mississippi River by the U.S. Navy, causing the Confederates to destroy the captured ironclad USS Indianola. CSS Queen of the West is depicted at the right. Credit: NAVY.

Dummy Taylor. Credit: Library of Congress.

Dummy Hoy. Credit: Library of Congress.

The dummy at work. Credit: Library of Congress.

Dummy in yard of antique shop, near Concord, New Hampshire. Credit: Library of Congress.

Chair and dummy, near Concord, New Hampshire. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

In this hearse there was a coffin covered with a white cloth, upon which was displayed a large black cross like a great dummy with hanging arms

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "dummy": ahead dummy ♦ anthropomorphic dummy ♦ baby's dummy ♦ be like a stuffed dummy ♦ crash test dummy ♦ display dummy ♦ dressmaker's dummy ♦ dummy aerial ♦ dummy antenna ♦ dummy argument ♦ dummy bar head ♦ dummy bullet ♦ dummy burst ♦ Dummy car ♦ dummy cartridge ♦ dummy corporation ♦ dummy firm ♦ dummy head ♦ dummy message ♦ dummy minefield ♦ dummy missile ♦ dummy parameter ♦ dummy run ♦ dummy teat ♦ dummy up ♦ dummy whist ♦ tailor's dummy ♦ To play dummy ♦ ventriloquist's dummy. Additional references.

Beginning with "dummy": dummy-chewing, dummy-proof, dummy-run.

Ending with "dummy": test-dummy.

Albanian

lojë me letra të hapura, bedel, biberon (nipple, pacifier), eksponat vitrine, fals (affected, bogus, false, off-key, out of whole cloth, painted, plastic, snide, spurious, untrue), fintë, i imituar (forged, pinchbeck), i trashë (bearish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, crass, deep, dense, dullish, dumb, fat, fatuous, fool, full-bodied, full-fed, gross, gruff, lardy, oafish, obese, obtuse, puddingy, purblind, ropy, rough and ready, round, roundabout, slapstick, slow witted, slowcoach, stupid, tactless, thick, uncouth, viscous, wooden, wooden-headed), artikull kallp, kapëz (pacifier), vegël (applicator, cat's paw, doohickey, engine, gadget, implement, instrument, Jigger, tool, utensil, utility), maket (decoy, draft, draught, model, synopsis), maket libri, maket reviste, manekin (manikin, mannequin, model, paris doll), mashë (cat's paw, fire-iron, poker, tongs), teveqel (dolt, dull, fool, foolish, imbecile, innocent, noodle, simpleton, zany, zombie), thithë (teat), imitacion (mimesis, mimicry, pinchbeck, sham). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كاذب (bogus, deceptive, delusive, fake, false, fictitious, flash, lying, phony, pseudo, sham, simulate, snide, spurious, unreal, untrue, untruthful), ‏وهمي (airy, airy fairy, astral, chimerical, delusive, delusory, fallacious, fanciful, fantastic, made up, mirage, mythical, notional, paper, phantom, putative, quixotic, romantic, subjective, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, visionary), ‏تمثال (bust, effigy, image, memorial, monument, statue, tombstone), ‏زائف (adulterate, artificial, bad, base, bastard, bogus, fake, false, fictitious, fictive, floating, hypocritical, imitation, imitative, mock, postiche, pretended, pseudo, queer, sham, shoddy, simulate, spurious, unreal), ‏طاولة بريدج, ‏النموذج الطباعي, ‏الغبي (cloddish, duffer, dunce, dunderhead, jackass, moron), ‏الصموت, ‏دمية (doll, dolly, plaything, puppet, shot, tinpot, toy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

учебен (scholastic), чучело (guy), фалшив (bastard, bogus, brummagem, counterfeit, factitious, fake, false, fictitious, hollow, imitative, insincere, mock, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, queer, sharp, snide, spurious, supposititious, tinsel), фиктивен (feigned, fictive, nominal, paper, phoney), глупак (bird brained, blinker, boeotian, bonehead, boob, booby, calf, chuckle-head, clod, clot, coot, dodo, dotterel, driveler, fathead, flat, fool, gaby, gawk, goof, goon, gowk, greenhorn, gull, hammerhead, jackass, jobbernowl, lack-brain, lame brain, leather-head, lunkhead, muggins, mutt, mutton head, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nutter, oaf, pudding-head, pumpkin-head, sap, sap-head, schmo, schnook, sheep's head, silly, simp, simple, simpleton, spoon, stupe, stupid, thickhead, tomfool, twit, witling, wittol, zany, zombie), ням човек (mute), неистински, мълчаливец, мор (pest, pestilence, plague), марионетка (marionette), макет (layout, mock up, model), манекен (lay figure, layman-figure, manikin, mannequin, model), биберон (feeder, feeding bottle, pacifier), подставено лице (plant, stooge), подставен (false). (various references)

Chinese 

假 (FALSE, spurious). (various references)

Czech

dudlík (comforter, pacifier, teat), panák (dram, puppy, quickie, short, snorter, stooge, tot), nepravý (artificial, faked, forged, mock, pinchbeck, pseudo, spurious, wrong), maketa (scale model), figura (figure, posture), atrapa. (various references)

Danish

dummy (mock-up), dukke (anthropomorphic test device, bobbin, doll, dolly, skein), tændpatron (primer, primer cartridge, receptor, stemming cartridge), sut (baby-bottle mouth piece, comforter, nipple, pacifier, teat, teat nipple), støvsuger (baby's comforter, comforter, pacifier, vacuum cleaner, vacuum-cleaner), pseudo, prøvebog, præfabrikeret forladning (stemming cartridge), ponton (barge, flat, float, float body, pontoon, raft), mekanisk formholder (mechanical boy), kunstig (artificial), forsoegs dukke (anthropomorphic test device), fantom, bogattrap. (various references)

Dutch

dummy (mock-up), dekbrug, zuigglas (baby's comforter, comforter, pacifier, vacuum-cleaner), zolderschuit (barge), vormapparaat bij het mondblazen (mechanical boy), testpop (anthropomorphic test device), stofzuiger (baby's comforter, comforter, pacifier, vacuum cleaner, vacuum-cleaner), speen (baby's comforter, comforter, nipple, pacifier, vacuum-cleaner), ponton (barge, flat, float, float body, pontoon, raft), platte bak (barge, flat, pontoon), fopspeen (baby's comforter, comforter, pacifier, vacuum-cleaner), cilindrische koker (stemming cartridge), blanco ingenaaid deel. (various references)

Esperanto

suĉilo (baby's comforter, comforter, pacifier, vacuum-cleaner). (various references)

Farsi 

مصنوعی (False, Postiche, Sophisticated), مانکن (Manikin, Mannequin), ادمک (Caricature, Manikin, Robot), ادم ساختگی , شخص لال وگیج وگنگ , بطورمصنوعی ساختن . (various references)

Finnish

vale-, testinukke (anthropomorphic test device), tekonaaras, mekaaninen muottipoika (mechanical boy), mallinukke (lay figure), koenukke (anthropomorphic test device), fantomi (phantom), bulvaani (straw man). (various references)

French

sucette, maquette, mannequin, factice. (various references)

German

Schnuller (comforter, nipple, pacifier, teat), Schein- (make believe, mock, phoney, phony, pseudo, sham, specious), Phantom (ghost, manikin, phantom), attrappe (sham). (various references)

Greek 

πιπίλα (comforter, pacifier), ανδρείκελο (marionette, puppet, stooge). (various references)

Hebrew 

מוצ�' (exhibit, representation), מזויף (bastard, bogus, counterfeit, fake, false, forged, made up, meretricious, mock, postiche, snide, specious, spurious), מ�"ומ�" (false, feigned, imaginary, mock), שקט (calmness, hush, peaceful, quiescent, quiet, quietude, secluded, silence, silent, still, stillness, tranquil), אלם (dumb, dumbness, hush, mute, muteness, silence, silent, voiceless), �"מ�", �'ולם (awkward person, boor, clod, embryo, ignoramus, larva, lubber, lummox, lunkhead, oaf, pupa, robot), בוב�" (doll, figurehead, moppet, poppet, puppet, stooge). (various references)

Hungarian

makett (mock up, mock-up), fajankó (boob, booby, bumpkin, cad, duffer, dunce, goof, goofy, goose, hawbuck, hick, juggins, lob, loon, lout, lummox, lunkhead, numb-skull, numskull, oaf, pumpkin-head, simple sammy), báb (chrysalis, cocoon, marionett, marionette, obtect pupa, pupa, puppet, tool), utánzat (artificial, counterfeit, echo, fake, imitation, parody, pasticci, pasticcio, pastiche, sham), stróman (stooge, strawman), statiszta (figurant, mute, procession man, super, supernumerary), próbabábu (mannequin), némajátékos (mimic, mummer), cumi (comforter, nipple, pacifier, teat). (various references)

Italian

menabò (model), fittizio (factitious, fictitious, fictive). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ダフ屋 (double, double-breasted, double-count, dowel, dumb, French cuffs, scalper, to coincide, to have two of something, to repeat a school year after failing), 模型　 (maquette, model), 模型 (maquette, model), 吹替え (dubbing, stand-in), 吹き替え (dubbing, stand-in), 傀儡 (puppet). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ダミー , くぐつ (puppet), ふきかえ (dubbing, stand-in), かいらい (frontal thunderstorm, puppet), もけい (maquette, model). (various references)

Korean 

거�" (Dummies). (various references)

Manx

foalsey (affected, bogus, counterfeit, dud, ersatz, fallacious, false, feigned, forged, hollow, hollow of victory, hypocritical, perfidious, pinchbeck, sham, spurious, substitute, suppositious, tinsel, treacherous, two-faced, wrong, wrong as note), diddee (teat of bottle), corp foalsey, bullad kyagh, breagag. (various references)

Pig Latin

ummyday.(various references)

Portuguese

boneco (manikin, puppet, toy). (various references)

Romanian

unealtã (cat's paw, creature, furniture, implement, instrument, minister, pawn, puppet, tackle, thing, tool, utensil), tont (addle-brained, blockhead, brain-hampered, chump, dim, dull-witted, dunderhead, goofy, nitwit, noodle, oaf, oafish, sap, thick-headed), om de paie (a man of straw, puppet, straw man, yes man), nãtâng (blockhead, clumsy, dead from the neck, Dotty, driveller, duffer, dunce, fat-head, feather-brained, foolish, noddy, silly, tomfool, wet, zombie), mort (breathless, cold, dead, dead and gone, dead beat, deceased, defunct, exanimate, extinct, gone, in the dust, lifeless), momâie (fright, guy, scarecrow), marionetã (marionette, pawn, Pensionary, puppet, tool), manechin (manikin, mannequin, model), mameluc (mameluke), machetã (make up, mock up), figurant (cipher, extra, mute, super, supernumerary), fictiv (assumed, bogus, fictional, fictitious, fictitiously, fictive, sham, unreal), fals (apparent, artificial, bad, base, bogus, cant, colourable, counterfeit, deceitful, double dealing, dud, erroneous, erroneously, error, factitious, fake, false, falsehood, feigned, flash, forged, forgery, fraud, glossy, hollow, hollow-hearted, imitation, imposture, insincere, lying, mendacious, mistaken, mock, painted, phony, plugged, reprobate, sham, spurious, sugary, tinsel, treacherous, trumpery, truthless, two faced, unnatural, unnaturally, untrue, wrong, wrongfully). (various references)

Russian 

учебный (instructional, practice, scholastic, sparring), холостой (single, unmarried, unwed, vacant, wifeless), временный (impermanent, interim, make-do, makeshift, provisional, service, temporal, temporary, time division), макет (decoy, layout, mockup, mock-up, model), манекен ложный, манекен (lay figure, layman-figure, manikin, mannequin, model, Paris doll, tailor's block), заглушка (cap), болван (beetle-head, berk, blockhead, blunderhead, boob, booby, chuckle-head, chump, chunk, dolt, doodle, dope, dumbbell, dumbo, dumbo the flying elephant, dunce, dunderhead, fat-head, fool, goon, hardhead, jackass, jobbernowl, jolterhead, leather-head, loggerhead, loghead, log-head, lubber-head, lump, lunkhead, mutt, mutton head, mutton-head, nerd, numskull, pudding-head), поддельный (bogus, counterfeit, dud, factitious, forged, imitative, mock, phoney, pinchbeck, pretended, queer, shoddy, spurious, supposititious, tin, unreal). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

maketa (layout, mock up, model), lutka (doll, maggot, mannequin, pupa, puppet), lažan (apocryphal, assumed, counterfeit, factitious, fake, faked, false, feigned, lying, mock, phoney, phony, pseudo, reprobate, sham, spurious, supposititious, untruthful), školski (academic, practice, school). (various references)

Spanish

maniquí (manikin, mannequin, mannikin, poser), ficticio (assumed, bogus, fictional, fictitious, made up, sham, untrue), chupete (lollipop, pacifier). (various references)

Swedish

träkarl, dummy, bulvan (decoy), attrapp. (various references)

Thai

หุ่นจำลอง, คนโง่ (apeth, berk, birdbrain, bozo, chucklehead, chump, clod, clodpole, div, doughnut, dove, dunce, featherbrain, fool, half-wit, ignoramus, loon, muddlehead, mug, muggins, muppet, mut, nerd, nincompoop, nit, noddy, oaf, schlepp, silly, simp, simple, simpleton, thicko). (various references)

Turkish

yapma (accomplishment, acquittal, artificial, construction, cut it out, drop it, execution, exercise, fulfillment, fulfilment, go on, imitated, implement, making, perpetration, postiche, pursuance, sham, spurious, stop it), yalancı meme, trafik ışıkları (traffic lights), taklit şey, sahte (apocryphal, artificial, bad, base, bastard, bogus, colorable, counterfeit, double dealing, dud, Duff, factitious, fake, false, feigned, forged, fraudulent, hollow, imitated, make believe, mannered, mock, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, pious, pretended, pseudo-, put on, quack, queer, rose water, sham, shoddy, simulated, snide, spurious, studied, supposititious, telltale, token, unreal, untrue, untruthful), manken (manikin, mannequin, model), kukla (doll, Dolly, dupe, figurehead, marionette, poppet, puppet, putty), hayali oyuncu, aptal (bird brained, birdbrain, booby, cretin, cuckoo, daft, Dotty, drag, dumb, dumb bell, dunce, fathead, fat-head, fat-headed, fatuous, feeble minded, fool, foolish, gaga, goofy, gormless, half wit, half-witted, harebrained, idiot, idiotic, inane, innocent, lummox, oafish, silly, simp, softhead, softy, stupid, thickheaded, tomfool, twerp, twit). (various references)

Turkmen 

emzik (doll). (various references)

Ukrainian

холостий (idle, wifeless), штучна річ, німий (dumb, mute, speechless, voiceless, walking, whist, wordless), макет (model), манекен (layman, manikin, mannequin, mannikin), підставний, підроблений (adulterate, adulterated, bastard, bogus, brummagem, counterfeit, falsified, imitative, mock, sham, simulated, snide, spurious, staged, supposititious). (various references)

Vietnamese 

số b� i của chân phải hạ b� i, người rơm (straw man), người nộm, người bung xung, giả (counterfeit, make-believe, mock, pinchbeck, sham, spurious), gáy sách giả. (various references)

Welsh

pegor (dwarf, imp, manikin). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "dummy": dummying. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Dummy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ddmmyy, Demmy, dimmi, Domby, Dpmi, Drummie, Duhm, dum, duma, Dumay, Dumby, dumgy, Dumky, dumm, dummi, dummie, dummm, dummys, dumn, dumy, Dumycz, dunnie, dunvy, Lummy, pummy, summy, Umy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: mud, mum, umm, yum.

-3 letters: mm, mu, my, um.

+3 letters: didymium, dummying.

+4 letters: cymbidium, didymiums, neodymium, sympodium.

+5 letters: cymbidiums, molybdenum, myocardium, neodymiums.