puppet
Any small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings or rods, or in the form of a glove.
Other meanings
A person, country, etc, controlled by another.
The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe.
A kind of
- figure
Related words
- meatpuppet
- Muppet
- puppetdom
- puppethood
- puppetish
- puppetism
- puppetize
- puppetless
- puppetlike
- telepuppet
- fuckpuppet
- glove puppet
Word history
From Latin "pupa" (doll, puppet; girl).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “puppet” 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.