dummy

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  1. noun An imitation of a real or original object, intended to be used as a practical substitute.
  2. noun A mannequin used in displaying clothes.
  3. noun A figure of a person or an animal manipulated by a ventriloquist.
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  • The boys downstairs will have the end of the wire, attached to the dummy, and they'll give it a jerk or two to make it look as if the dummy is about to fall off the ledge. —  098 - The Golden Man
  • Jim Calhoun is no dummy, and if I can figure this out, I'm sure he can too.
  • But with two enduring careers to his credit Francis was no dummy, and like the late —  GreenCine Daily
  • I'm no dummy, and I thought all of this 2 months for 8.00 etc, no annual contract was too good to be true. —  blogTO
  • That she would NEVER get round the table with the "Donetsk" men were just a dummy, a sort of bluff for Yushchenko. —  forUm
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  1. From dumb.

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  1. = Scots dumbie; diminutive of dumb, dum.
 

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