puppet

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  1. noun A small figure of a person or animal, having a cloth body and hollow head, designed to be fitted over and manipulated by the hand.
  2. noun A figure having jointed parts animated from above by strings or wires; a marionette.
  3. noun A toy representing a human figure; a doll.
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  • Even as she lay there she popped back up like a puppet, and said, in something like her own voice, "The little goddess died despite all." —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
  • She was helpless; she felt like a puppet, her joints weak, her body melting beneath his exquisite assault. —  A Man Alone by Lindsay Mckenna
  • Obviously, a puppet which is to be employed in that manner should never be developed from one of the types that are in public dramatic use. —  Analog January, 1971
  • Cheney and his boys chose Bush to be their sock-puppet, and then Cheney chose Cheney as VP. —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
  • Ozel's being a puppet was an interesting twist I didn't expect. —  Anime Nano!
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marionette ·  doll ·  plaything ·  toy ·  farce ·  clown ·  coward

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puppet:   puppets
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English poppet, doll, possibly from Anglo-Norman poppe, doll; see puppy.

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  1. Also poppet; early modern English popet, from Middle English popet, from Old French poupette, a doll, puppet, diminutive of *poupe, from Latin pupa, a doll, puppet, a girl: see pupa. Cf. puppy.
  2. from puppet, n.
 

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