Last Updated ：2025/11/19

dummy

IPA(Pronunciation)

Noun

dated Australia New-Zealand UK attributive

(dated) A silent person; a person who does not talk. / A stupid person. / A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.

Japanese Meaning

口数が少なく、あまり話さない人 / 愚かな人、馬鹿な人 / 腹話術などで使われる人形、パペット

What is this buttons?

They nicknamed him dummy because he hardly ever spoke, though he understood everything.

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彼らは彼がほとんど話さなかったので、無口な人と呼んでいたが、彼はすべてを理解していた。

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Sense（1）

(dated) A silent person; a person who does not talk.

Coordinate term: mute

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Sense（2）

A stupid person.

Don't be such a dummy!

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Sense（3）

A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.

Sense（4）

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.

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Sense（5）

A person who is the mere tool of another; a man of straw.

Sense（6）

A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.

The hammer and drill in the display are dummies.

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Sense（7）

The baby wants her dummy.

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Sense（8）

(card games, chiefly bridge) A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.

Sense（9）

(linguistics) A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.

The pronoun "it" in "It's a mystery why this happened" is a dummy.

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Sense（10）

(programming) An unused parameter or value.

If flag1 is false, the other parameters are dummies.

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Sense（11）

(sports, chiefly rugby, soccer) A feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent.

Sense（12）

(sports, UK) A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player; a feint.

Raul Meireles was the victim of the home side's hustling on this occasion giving the ball away to the impressive David Vaughan who slipped in Taylor-Fletcher. The striker sold Daniel Agger with the best dummy of the night before placing his shot past keeper Pepe Reina.

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