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Definition: Puppet |
PuppetNoun1. A small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer. 2. A person who is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else. 3. A doll with a hollow head of a person or animal and a cloth body; intended to fit over the hand and be manipulated with the fingers. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "puppet" was first used: 12th century. (references) |
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Food & Agriculture | Lime concretion shaped like a small doll, found in loess. Source: European Union. (references) |
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A puppet is any controlled character, whether formed by a shadow, strings, by the use of a glove, by direct mechanical contrivance (for example a cable-controlled figure for film or TV) or electronic guidance (such as a radio or infra-red remote controller). The last method is also called animatronics. Digital animated figures, with this description, may also be described as puppets, particularly since they are often supplanted by physical puppets for closeups. However, drawn cartoons are not puppets.Puppets are also known as marionettes from the French medieval passion-play figure attributed to Marion or the young Mary, mother of Jesus.
A general distinction between a puppet and an automaton is the former is mostly operated live and the latter is mostly programmed (for example a coin-operated automata-show or piano-roll sideshow figure). The puppet can interact with other puppets, live performers, and the audience; automatons are animated props.
History of Puppetry
The use of puppets dates back thousands of years. The first may have been shadow-puppets, which are mentioned in Greek philosophy.The ancients, especially the Greeks, were very fond of theatrical representations; but, as Magnin has remarked in his Origines du Théâtre Moderne, public representations were very expensive, and for that very reason very rare. Moreover, those who were not in a condition of freedom were excluded from them; and, finally, all cities could not have a large theater, and provide for the expenses that it carried with it. It became necessary, then, for every day needs, for all conditions and for all places, that there should be comedians of an inferior order, charged with the duty of offering continuously and inexpensively the emotions of the drama to all classes of inhabitants.
At the time menageries, puppet shows, fortune tellers, jugglers, and performers of tricks of all kinds wandered from village to village. These prestidigitators even obtained at times such celebrity that history has preserved their names for us -- at least of two of them, Euclides and Theodosius, to whom statues were erected by their contemporaries. One of these was put up at Athens in the Theater of Bacchus, alongside of that of the great writer of tragedy, Æschylus, and the other at the Theater of the Istiaians, holding in the hand a small ball. The grammarian Athenæus, who reports these facts in his "Banquet of the Sages," profits by the occasion to deplore the taste of the Athenians, who preferred the inventions of mechanics to the culture of mind and histrions to philosophers. He adds with vexation that Diophites of Locris passed down to posterity simply because he came one day to Thebes wearing around his body bladders filled with wine and milk, and so arranged that he could spurt at will one of these liquids in apparently drawing it from his mouth.
Philo of Byzantium, and Heron of Alexandria both composed treatises on puppet shows. That of Philo is lost, but Heron's treatise has been preserved to us.
According to Heron, a Greek engineer, there were several kinds of puppet shows. The oldest and simplest consisted of a small stationary case, isolated on every side, in which the stage was closed by doors that opened automatically several times to exhibit the different tableaux.
The programme of the representation was generally as follows: The first tableau showed a head, painted on the back of the stage, which moved its eyes, and lowered and raised them alternately. The door having been closed, and then opened again, there was seen, instead of the head, a group of persons. Finally, the stage opened a third time to show a new group, and this finished the representation. There were, then, only three movements to be made, that of the doors, that of the eyes, and that of the change of background.
As such representations were often given on the stages of large theaters, a method was devised later on of causing the case to start from the scenes behind which it was bidden from the spectators, and of moving automatically to the front of the stage, where it exhibited in succession the different tableaux; after which it returned automatically behind the scenes. Here is one of the scenes indicated by Heron, entitled the "Triumph of Bacchus":
The movable case shows, at its upper part, a platform from which arises a cylindrical temple, the roof of which, supported by six columns, is conical and surmounted by a figure of Victory with spread wings and holding a crown in her right hand. In the center of the temple Bacchus is seen standing, holding a thyrsus in his left hand, and a cup in his right. At his feet lies a panther. In front of and behind the god, on the platform of the stage, are two altars provided with combustible material. Very near the columns, but external to them, there are bacchantes placed in any posture that may be desired. All being thus prepared, says Heron, the automatic apparatus is set in motion. The theater then moves of itself to the spot selected, and there stops. Then the altar in front of Jupiter becomes lighted, and, at the same time, milk and water spurt from his thyrsus, while his cup pours wine over the panther. The four faces of the base become encircled with crowns, and, to the noise of drums and cymbals, the bacchantes dance round about the temple. Soon, the noise having ceased, Victory on the top of the temple, and Bacchus within it, face about. The altar that was behind the god is now in front of him, and becomes lighted in its turn. Then occurs another outflow from the thyrsus and cup, and another round of the bacchantes to the sound of drums and cymbals. The dance being finished, the theater returns to its former station. Thus ends the apotheosis.
Kinds of puppets
- Marionette - a puppet suspended and controlled by a number of strings held from above by a puppeteer.
- Supermarionation - an electronic variant with control wires substituted that connected internal mechanisms in the puppet.
- Hand puppet - a puppet controlled by one hand that occupies the interior of the puppet
- Muppet - a combination of the marionette and hand puppet. The most common variant design has the puppeteer have one arm inside the puppet to control the head while the other operates the puppet's movable arm.
- Black light puppet - a kind of puppet that is operated on a stage lit only with black lighting with both hides the puppeteer and excetuates the colours of the puppet.
- Ventriloquist dummy - A puppet operated by a ventriloquist performer to focus the audience's attention from the performer's activities and heighten the illusions. They called dummies because they do not speak.
See also
- List of famous puppets
- puppeteer
Other Uses of word Puppet
Figure of Speech
As a figure of speech puppet also refers to a political leader installed, supported and controlled by more powerful forces, with no democratic mandate.Likewise, puppet government or puppet regime is a derogatory term for a government in charge of a region or country, but only through being installed, supported and controlled by a more powerful government.
Dog
A puppet is also a dog younger than a adult dog.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Puppet."
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Puppet government or puppet régime are derogatory terms for a government which - though notionally of the same culture as the governed people - owes its existence (or other major debt) to being installed, supported or controlled by a more powerful entity, typically a foreign power.
The term is partisan and prone to semantic disputes, used almost exclusively by detractors of such governments, whether or not the majority of citizens affected acknowledge the characterization, or object to that kind of government. Often a proclaimed puppet government faces a rival government which uses the puppet government term to weaken the legitimacy of that government. Also usually implied is the government's lack of legitimacy, in the view of those using the term.
For example, the two Korean governments have each throughout their history often used the rhetoric that they are in fact the only true rulers of the penisula, and that the other government is merely a "puppet" of the US/Soviets.
Some other examples of states and governments sometimes labelled "puppet governments" include (in chronological order):
Governments which take power after foreign military intervention, or the threat thereof, are often accused by their opponents of being puppet governments, for example the government of Hamid Karzai in post-Taliban Afghanistan or the Diem government of South Vietnam, supported by the United States. Indeed, such accusations are commonly used to destabilize governments, encouraging and justifing coup d'états.
- the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (on territory occupied in 1974)
- The People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, supported by the Soviet Union (1975-1990)
- most of the Soviet "satellite states" behind the Iron Curtain in post-war Europe
- The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, controlled by the Soviet Union (1979-1990)
- many Central and South American military dictatorships, supported by USA
- the Greek Junta 1967-1974, supported by USA
- Cuba, backed by USA (1902-1959)
- Manchukuo, set up in Manchuria by Japan in the 1930s
- Mengjiang, similar to Manchukuo but in Inner Mongolia
- Wang Jingwei's leftist Nationalist government in Nanjing 1940-1944 detached from Kuomintang, supported by Japan
- the Far Eastern Republic, set up by the Bolsheviks 1920-1923 in the Russian Far East
- Panama, separated from Colombia by USA in 1903 to build and control the Panama Canal
Most of the West-European governments under domination of Nazi-Germany during World War II are now and then called puppet régimes, not the least in Allied literature, and particularly the fascist-leaning:
See also: Banana republic
- Belgium (1939-1945) - The violent Rexist movement had achieved some electoral success in the 1930s and many of its members assisted the Nazi occupation during World War II.
- Slovakia (1939-1944) - The Slovak Populist Party was a quasi-fascist nationalist movement associated with the Roman Catholic Church. Monsignor Jozef Tiso became the Nazis' quisling in a nominally independent Slovakia.
- France (1940-1945) - The Vichy régime of Henri Pétain
- Croatia (1941-1945) - The Independent State of Croatia
- Norway (1943-1945) - Vidkun Quisling had already during the German invasion on April 9th, 1940, attempted a coup d'état, but was appointed to head a government first from February 1st, 1943. His party had never had any substantial support in Norway.
- Italy (1943-1945) - After the Badoglio government withdrew from the Axis Powers, the Germans occupied Italy, and created a puppet Fascist state called the Italian Social Republic.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Puppet government."
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A puppeteer is a person who manipulates a puppet or marionette, either by the use of strings, wires or their hands, for a stage production or film. Usually, the puppeteer also provides the voice for the puppet, but this is not always the case. Some puppets require multiple puppeteers to operate them.Two of the most famous puppeteers are Jim Henson and Frank Oz. Their work has entertained children for decades on the popular Sesame Street, The Electric Company, and The Muppet Show television series. (The puppets used by these puppeteers are usually called Muppets).
Henson and Oz also frequently worked in film, including directing and puppeteer work in the 1982 film The Dark Crystal and the 1986 film Labyrinth. Oz is also well known for his work with the puppet of Yoda in the popular Star Wars movie series and as a director of movies such as the musical Little Shop of Horrors.
Another famous modern puppeteer is Gerry Anderson who used a puppet system called Supermarionation to a number of successful science fiction television shows like Thunderbirds
Notable puppeteers
Famous people who also were puppeteers:
- Kevin Clash (Elmo on Sesame Street)
- Jim Henson (Kermit the Frog, Ernie, and many others)
- Jerry Nelson (Gonzo, Dr. Julius Strangepork, Herry Monster)
- Frank Oz (Miss Piggy, Yoda, Bert, Fozzie Bear, Grover, Cookie Monster and many others)
- Carroll Spinney (Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street)
- Shari Lewis (Lambchop and others)
- Edgar Bergen (Charlie McCarthy and others)
- Fran Brill (Prairie Dawn, Zoe, Little Bird, Roxie Marie
- Goethe
- Alfred Jarry
- Jean Cocteau
- Peter Brook
See also
- List_of_famous_puppets
- Larry Niven's Known Space science fiction stories in which Puppeteers are an alien race.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Puppeteer."
Synonyms: PuppetSynonyms: creature (n), marionette (n), tool (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Toy, plaything, bauble; doll; (puppet ); teetotum; knickknack; (trifle); magic lantern; (show); peep show, puppet show, raree show, gallanty show; toy shop; "quips and cranks and wanton wiles, nods and becks and wreathed smiles". |
Authority | Have the upper hand, get the upper hand, have the whip, get the whip; gain a hold upon, preponderate, dominate, rule the roost; boss; override, overrule, overawe; lord it over, hold in hand, keep under, make a puppet of, lead by the nose, turn round one's little finger, bend to one's will, hold one's own, wear the breeches; have the ball at one's feet, have it all one's own way, have the game in one's own hand, have on the hip, have under one's thumb; be master of the situation; take the lead, play first fiddle, set the fashion; give the law to; carry with a high hand; lay down the law; "ride in the whirlwind and direct the storm"; rule with a rod of iron; (severity). |
Auxiliary | Aide-de-camp, secretary, clerk, associate, marshal; right-hand, right-hand man, Friday, girl Friday, man Friday, gopher, gofer; candle-holder, bottle-holder; handmaid; servant; puppet, cat's-paw, jackal. |
Dupe | Noun: dupe, gull, gudgeon, gobemouche, cull, cully, victim, pigeon, April fool; jay, sucker; laughingstock; Cyclops, simple Simon, flat; greenhorn; fool; puppet, cat's paw. |
Littleness | Dwarf, pygmy, pigmy, Liliputian, chit, pigwidgeon, urchin, elf; atomy, dandiprat; doll, puppet; Tom Thumb, Hop-o'-my-thumb; manikin, mannikin; homunculus, dapperling,dwarf, pygmy, pigmy, Liliputian, chit, pigwidgeon, urchin, elf; atomy, dandiprat; doll, puppet; Tom Thumb, Hop-o'-my-thumb; manikin, mannikin; homunculus, dapperling, cock-sparrow. |
Representation | Figure, figure head; puppet, doll, figurine, aglet, manikin, lay-figure, model, mammet, marionette, fantoccini, waxwork, bust; statue, statuette. |
Servant | Serf, vassal, slave, negro, helot; bondsman, bondswoman; bondslave; ame damnee, odalisque, ryot, adscriptus gleboe; villian, villein; beadsman, bedesman; sizar; pensioner, pensionary; client; dependant, dependent; hanger on, satellite; parasite; (servility); led captain; protege, ward, hireling, mercenary, puppet, tool, creature. |
Subjection | Be a mere machine, be a puppet, be a football; not dare to say one's soul is his own; drag a chain. |
Adjective: subject, dependent, subordinate; feudal, feudatory; in subjection to, under control; in leading strings, in harness; subjected, enslaved; Verb: constrained; downtrodden; overborne, overwhelmed; under the lash, on the hip, led by the nose, henpecked; the puppet of, the sport of, the plaything of; under one's orders, under one's command, under one's thumb; a slave to; at the mercy of; in the power of, in the hands of, in the clutches of; at the feet of; at one's beck and call; (obedient); liable; parasitical; stipendiary. | |
The Drama | Theater; playhouse, opera house; house; music hall; amphitheater, circus, hippodrome, theater in the round; puppet show, fantoccini; marionettes, Punch and Judy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Puppet |
| English words defined with "puppet": Aunt Sally ♦ Balance valve ♦ entertaining ♦ glove doll, glove puppet ♦ hand puppet, Henson ♦ Jack-a-lent, Jim Henson ♦ lay figure, Lifting rod ♦ Mammet, Man of straw, Mawmet, Moppet ♦ Neurospast ♦ Popelote, Popet, Poupeton, Punch and Judy, Punchinello, Puppet play, Puppetish, Puppetman, puppetry ♦ Wire-pulling. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "puppet": CHILDREN'S LIBRARIAN ♦ hand and rod puppet ♦ JUDY ♦ sock puppet. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "puppet": Pupa. (references) |
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Screenplays | Can we really keep the puppet show Uncle Max (The Sound of Music; writing credit: Richard Rodgers; Oscar Hammerstein II) Get her a puppet! (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) Well, it's not quite a mop, it's not quite a puppet, but man (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) A puppet that lost its heart to the heartless (Kingdom Hearts; writing credit: Billy Gallo; Robert Gillings) You know how your father feels about evil puppet movies (Malcolm in the Middle; writing credit: Daniel Frenette) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Retro Puppet Master (1999) Puppet on a Chain (1970) IBM Puppet Shows (1965) Attack of the Puppet People (1958) | |
Song Titles | I'm Your Puppet (performing artist: James and Bobby Purify) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The prairie dog sickened at the sting of the hornet or a diplomatic puppet exhibiting his deceptions. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Electric Institute of Washington puppet show. Rorbum theatre on stage of Electric Institute I. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The prairie dog sickened at the sting of the hornet or a diplomatic puppet exhibiting his deceptions / J[ames] Akin fect. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Christmas puppet show; the fight against religion is the fight for socialism] / Radakov. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | No more rigged elections : power to the people : P.P.P. 6 demands for free & fair elections-- ... end puppet rule. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The birds take liberties with the puppet, the beetles make free with it, the bourgeois laugh at it. |
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Economic History | Japan | Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931 and set up the puppet state of Manchukuo. (references) |
Czech Republic | Fulfilling Hitler's aggressive designs on all of Czechoslovakia, Germany invaded what remained of Bohemia and Moravia in March 1939, establishing a German "protectorate." By this time, Slovakia had already declared independence and had become a puppet state of the Germans. (references) | |
Slovakia | Slovakia had already declared its independence on March 14, 1939, and had become a Nazi German puppet state led by Jozef Tiso. (references) | |
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| "Puppet" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.77% of the time. "Puppet" is used about 269 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.77% | 263 | 18,193 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.12% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.74% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.37% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 269 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "puppet": glove puppet ♦ hand and rod puppet ♦ hand puppet ♦ puppet government ♦ puppet head ♦ puppet master ♦ puppet play ♦ puppet player ♦ puppet regime ♦ puppet show ♦ puppet theater ♦ puppet valve ♦ sock puppet. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "puppet": puppet-jointed, puppet-king, puppet-like, puppet-making, puppet-master, puppet-masters, puppet-show, puppet-thing. | |
Ending with "puppet": shadow-puppet. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
dog puppet | 2,387 | paper bag puppet | 55 |
puppet | 1,559 | cat puppet | 50 |
animal puppet | 365 | metallica master of puppet | 48 |
finger puppet | 337 | puppet skits | 45 |
puppet master | 293 | penis puppet | 44 |
hand puppet | 255 | master of puppet lyrics | 42 |
frog puppet | 211 | puppet on a string | 41 |
puppet theater | 169 | baby einstein puppet | 34 |
lion puppet | 148 | puppet production | 30 |
meat puppet | 139 | free pattern puppet | 30 |
sock puppet | 125 | master of puppet tab | 29 |
puppet making | 114 | puppet play | 29 |
puppet stage | 95 | lyrics meat puppet | 27 |
puppet pattern | 78 | christian puppet skits | 26 |
make puppet | 70 | boy puppet | 24 |
lyrics master metallica puppet | 68 | christian puppet | 24 |
puppet ministry | 63 | folkmanis puppet | 23 |
puppet show | 63 | free puppet skits | 21 |
puppet script | 60 | bread puppet | 20 |
shadow puppet | 57 | bible can kid puppet skits story | 19 |
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| Language | Translations for "puppet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | pop (doll). (various references) | |
Albanian | marionet, kukull (doll, Dolly, marionette). (various references) | |
Arabic | لعبة الأطفال, شخص أشبه بالألعوبة, دمية متحركة, دمية (doll, dolly, dummy, plaything, shot, tinpot, toy). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | куклен, марионетна държава, марионетен. (various references) | |
Catalan | nina (doll). (various references) | |
Chinese | 木偶 . (various references) | |
Czech | maòásek (glove puppet), loutka (doll, figurehead, marionette). (various references) | |
Danish | loess-dukke. (various references) | |
Dutch | marionet (marionette). (various references) | |
Esperanto | pupo (doll), marioneto (marionette). (various references) | |
Faeroese | reivvera (doll), dukka (doll). (various references) | |
Farsi | عروسک خیمه شب بازی (Jumpingjack, Marionette), عروسک (Doll, Toy), دست نشانده (Stooge). (various references) | |
Finnish | sätkynukke (marionette), marionetti. (various references) | |
French | poupée, marionnette, guignol (doll for use in Punch-and-Judy show, doll for use in puppet show), fantoche. (various references) | |
Frisian | poppe (baby, doll), pop (baby, doll). (various references) | |
German | Marionette (marionette), Puppe (baby, bimbo, cocoon, doll, dolly, dummy, guy, marionette, pupa, Sheila). (various references) | |
Greek | κούκλα (doll, dummy, marionette, moppet), νευρόσπαστο (marionette), μαριονέτα (marionette). (various references) | |
Hebrew | בובתי (dollish), בוב" (doll, dummy, figurehead, moppet, poppet, stooge). (various references) | |
Hungarian | baba (baby, doll, dolly, poppet), bábu (marionette, marker), báb (chrysalis, cocoon, dummy, marionett, marionette, obtect pupa, pupa, tool). (various references) | |
Indonesian | wayang, golekan (doll), boneka (doll, figurehead). (various references) | |
Italian | marionetta (marionette), burattino, bambola (babe, doll, Dolly). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 人形 (doll, figure), 人形 (doll, figure), 木偶 (wooden figure or doll), "り人形 (marionette), "り人形 (marionette), "り (manipulation), 偶人 (doll), 傀儡 (dummy). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | くぐつ (dummy), ぐうじ" (doll), でく (wooden figure or doll), に"ぎょう (doll, figure), かいらい (dummy, frontal thunderstorm), あやつりに"ぎょう (marionette), あやつり (manipulation). (various references) | |
Korean | 괴뢰. (various references) | |
Manx | babbanagh (lobed, tassellated, tasselled), babban cloie. (various references) | |
Occitan | monaca (doll), mariòta (marionette). (various references) | |
Papiamen | pòpchi (doll). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uppetpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fantoche (marionette), boneca (doll, dummy, poppet, poppet-valve), marionete (marionette), boneco (manikin, toy). (various references) | |
Romanian | pãpuşã (ball, doll, poppet, stock), unealtã (cat's paw, creature, dummy, furniture, implement, instrument, minister, pawn, tackle, thing, tool, utensil), om de paie (a man of straw, dummy, straw man, yes man), marionetã (dummy, marionette, pawn, Pensionary, tool). (various references) | |
Russian | кукольный (dollish, doll-like), марионетка кукольный, марионеточный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | marionetska, marioneta (marionette, stooge), lutka (doll, dummy, maggot, mannequin, pupa). (various references) | |
Spanish | títere (marionette), muñeca (doll, dollish, dummy, wrist). (various references) | |
Sranan | popki (doll). (various references) | |
Swedish | marionett (creature, lay figure, marionette), docka (dock, dock (of the bay], doll, Dolly, skein). (various references) | |
Tagalog | manik (doll). (various references) | |
Thai | หุ่นกระบอก. (various references) | |
Turkish | kukla (doll, Dolly, dummy, dupe, figurehead, marionette, poppet, putty), bebek (babe, baby, Bebek, cookie, cooky, doll, Dolly, infant, infantile). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | маріонетка (marionette, poppet, stooge). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nguỵ, bù nhìn (guy, straw). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | pupa. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "puppet": puppeteer, puppeteers, puppetlike, puppetries, puppetry, puppets. (additional references) | |
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"Puppet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: papapet, Pippert, pippet, poopet, Poppel, poppett, Puplett, pupper, puppi, pupport. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "puppet" (pronounced pu"put) |
| 3 | -p u t | carpet, decrepit, despot, snippet, tappet, Tippet, trumpet. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-p-p-p-t-u" | |
-3 letters: pep, pet, pup, put, tup. | |
-4 letters: et, pe, up, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-p-p-p-t-u" | |
+1 letter: puppets. | |
+2 letters: puppetry. | |
+3 letters: puppeteer, upperpart, upstepped. | |
+4 letters: puppeteers, puppetlike, puppetries, upperparts, upstepping. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Translations: Ancient 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Bibliography |
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