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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. 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. n. A figure having jointed parts animated from above by strings or wires; a marionette.
  3. n. A toy representing a human figure; a doll.
  4. n. One whose behavior is determined by the will of others: a political puppet.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A doll.
  2. n. A little figure of a person, moved by the fingers, or by cords or wires, in a mock drama; a marionette.
  3. n. Hence One who is actuated by the will of another; a tool: used in contempt.
  4. n. plural Toys; trinkets.
  5. n. The head-stock or the tail-stock of a lathe. See lathe.
  6. To dress as a doll; bedeck with finery.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Any small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings, rods or in the form of glove.
  2. n. figuratively A person, country, etc, controlled by another.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A small image in the human form; a doll.
  2. n. A similar figure moved by the hand or by a wire in a mock drama; a marionette; a wooden actor in a play.
  3. n. One controlled in his action by the will of another; a tool; -- so used in contempt.
  4. n. (Mach.) The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer
  2. n. a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else
  3. n. a doll with a hollow head of a person or animal and a cloth body; intended to fit over the hand and be manipulated with the fingers

Etymologies

  1. From Old French poupette, diminutive of poupée, from Vulgar Latin *puppa, from Latin pupa. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English poppet, doll, possibly from Anglo-Norman poppe, doll; see puppy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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