dummy
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(dated)A silent person; a person who does not talk.
Đồng nghĩa: dumby
- 2.
A stupid person.
Don't be such a dummy!
Đồng nghĩa: dumby, dumdum
- 3.
(slang)(African-American Vernacular, Baltimore, slang) A term of address.
Hey dummy, what's good wit chu?
Đồng nghĩa: dude, bro
- 4.
A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
- 5.
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.
Đồng nghĩa: mannequin, marionette
- 6.
A person who is the mere tool of another; a man of straw.
- 7.
A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
The hammer and drill in the display are dummies.
- 8.
(Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, UK)A pacifier; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby.
The baby wants her dummy.
Đồng nghĩa: binky, bink, bo-bo, comforter, dodie, dummy, nookie, paci, piece, pippy, soother
- 9.
(card games, chiefly bridge) A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
- 10.
(linguistics) A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
The pronoun "it" in "It's a mystery why this happened" is a dummy.
- 11.
(programming) An unused parameter or value.
If flag1 is false, the other parameters are dummies.
- 12.
(sports, chiefly rugby, soccer) A feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent.
Động từ
verb- 1.
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.
- 2.
(sports) To feint.
Đồng nghĩa: juke, deke
Trạng từ
adverb- 1.
(US, slang)Extremely.
It's dummy hot outside.
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From dumb + --y. Pacifier sense from dummy teat where dummy is in the sense of a nonfunctional replica.