dummy
A stupid person.
Example
“Don't be such a dummy!”
Other meanings
A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
“To understand the effects of the accident, we dropped a dummy from the rooftop.”
Synonyms
- silent person
Related words
- dumminess
- dummymander
- beat the dummy
- chuck a dummy
- dummy foal syndrome
- crash test dummy
- dummy bid
- dummy bidder
- dummy board
- dummy car
- dummy foal
- dummy half
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “dummy” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.