How to pronounce “dummy”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (dated) A silent person; a person who does not talk.
• A stupid person.
• (African-American Vernacular, Baltimore, slang) A term of address.
• A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
• Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
• A person who is the mere tool of another; a man of straw.
• A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
• (Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland) A pacifier; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby. [from 20th c.]
• (card games, chiefly bridge) A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
• (linguistics) A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
• (programming) An unused parameter or value.
• (sports, chiefly rugby, soccer) A feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent.
• (sports, UK) A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player; a feint.
• (attributive) A newborn animal that is indifferent to stimulus and does not voluntarily move.
• (chess) A fairy chess piece that cannot move or capture, but can be captured and used to skip moving another piece.
• [Verb]
• To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.
• (sports) To feint.
• [Adverb]
• (US, slang) Extremely.

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