Dummy Definition
dŭmē
dummied, dummies, dummying
noun
dummies
An imitation or sham; substitute for the real thing, as an empty container or false drawer.
Webster's New World
A mannequin used in displaying clothes.
American Heritage
A figure made in human form, as for displaying clothing, for practicing tackling in football, etc.
Webster's New World
A figure of a person or an animal manipulated by a ventriloquist.
American Heritage
A stuffed or pasteboard figure used as a target.
American Heritage
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adjective
Simulating or replacing something but lacking its function.
A dummy pocket; a dummy medication in a study.
American Heritage
Imitation; sham; fictitious.
Webster's New World
Secretly acting as a front for another.
A dummy corporation.
Webster's New World
Played with a dummy.
American Heritage
Entered or provided only to meet prescribed conditions.
A dummy variable.
American Heritage
verb
dummied, dummies, dummying
To make a model of (a publication or page).
American Heritage
Used only in the phrase dummy up, to refuse to talk or tell what one knows.
Webster's New World
To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.
The carpenters dummied some props for the rehearsals.
Wiktionary
To feint.
Wiktionary
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Other Word Forms of Dummy
Noun
Singular:
dummyPlural:
dummiesOrigin of Dummy
-
From dumb + -y.
From Wiktionary
From dumb
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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