Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who entertains with and operates puppets or marionettes.
Wiktionary
- n. A person who uses a puppet.
- n. figuratively Someone who is manipulative and able to get others to do what they want in a puppet-like manner.
WordNet 3.0
- n. one who operates puppets or marionettes
Etymologies
- puppet + -eer (Wiktionary)
Examples
“They may be similar in that particular action other than that it's possibly the same puppeteer is pulling the strings.”
“Louise Martin tells us that 'they did not know what to call the manipulator-actor back in that day,' and that Van Volkenburg, with some misgivings, hit on the word puppeteer following from the term for a mule-driver, a muleteer.”
The Huffington Post: Robert Loerzel: Chicago, "Puppeteer" City
“The earliest appearance of the word puppeteer in the New York Times was in the May 23, 1920, article, "Puppeteering as a Fine Art," which covers Van Volkenburg and other puppeteers of the time.”
The Huffington Post: Robert Loerzel: Chicago, "Puppeteer" City
“Edgerton is not usually credited as the person who coined the word puppeteer, however.”
The Huffington Post: Robert Loerzel: Chicago, "Puppeteer" City
“But the fact that, in my case, the word puppeteer also includes designing and building, in addition to performing, was new information.”
“Puppets can't participate in open discussions unless the puppeteer is pulling the strings.”
“I am one, but I identify as a puppeteer and more recently as an SF writer.”
“Randall then goes on to note that the chief puppeteer is David Cameron, "a former executive at what is now ITV.”
“The things that he did best were the old standard ventriloquist jokes setting it up, for example, for the dummy to call the puppeteer a dummy, which didn't feel old or tired when he did them.”
“Now we're in the process of finding actors and trying to teach them to puppeteer, which is a difficult task.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘puppeteer’.
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artists
different kind of artists.. any kind (general or specific types).
algorist, painter, sculptor, singer, musician, dancer, writer, puppeteer, actor, poet, cartoonist, photographer and 19 more...
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Big Top
roadshow, hooplah, derring do, acrobat, buffoonery, cavort, hijinks, gaiety, frolic, ringmaster, stilts, tightrope and 77 more...
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Great Race Horse Names10
poetry in motion - words at work.
illuminator, bonk, testify to love, passion for gumbo, grimacing, above a whisper, jazz ensemble, dinner in the diner, marginal reality, scalding passion, you wont like it, umber and 216 more...
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Oofy
States of being
seeress, honey bucket, donkeyman, poopyhead, halfwit, vixenish, galoot, hoity toity, shitkicker, miserabilist, wanker, clueless and 261 more...
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Puppet (Words) On a String
puppet, hand puppet, glove doll, glove puppet, marionette, popet, puppetman, puppet-player, puppetry, puppet-show, puppet-play, puppetish and 40 more...
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Words taught by Jim
puppeteer, ping pong balls f..., 'bein' green', the rainbow conne..., pigs in space, muppet, large moving mouths, physical slapstick, absurdist comedy, humorous parodies, human guest star, glamorous diva pig and 28 more...
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