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单词 puppet
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puppetn.

Brit. /ˈpʌpɪt/, U.S. /ˈpəpət/
Forms: 1500s pupette, 1500s puppitte, 1500s puppyt, 1500s–1600s puppette, 1500s–1700s puppit, 1500s– puppet, 1600s pupet.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: poppet n.
Etymology: Variant of poppet n.; now the usual form in sense 3. With sense 1, which is not paralleled at poppet n., compare puppy n. and discussion at that entry.In sense 7 after Dutch †popken (1669 in an apparently isolated attestation in the source reviewed in quot. 1671); compare pupa n. and the Germanic parallels cited at that entry.
I. A puppy.
1. A small dog; a puppy. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > pet
puppy1486
messana1500
puppet?1531
minx1542
pupprelle1583
lapdoga1684
fan-fan1834
snookums1919
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > puppy
whelpc950
pup1542
puppy1567
pupsie?1576
puppy doga1616
whelplinga1618
puppet1652
dogling1830
?1531 R. Barnes Supplic. Kinge Henrye VIII f. lxxx As a puppet which springeth vp & doune & cryythe pepe pepe and gothe his waye.
1579 T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things ii. 47 Being ignoraunt that his..Dogge was infect with madnesse: he himselfe within fowre monthes after, became mad... Which let them marke & consider that haue such pleasure in lytle Puppyts.
1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders 147 The great curres..the litle puppets.
1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 336 She replied, Persa was dead, meaning her whelp or Puppet.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. ix. 183/2 Whelpes, or Puppits, are..whelped blind.
II. An image of a human being or a person or thing resembling one.
2.
a. depreciative. An idolatrous image, an idol; any material object that is worshipped. Cf. poppet n. 2c.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > idol
godeOE
anlikenessOE
stockc1000
mammetc1225
Mahometc1275
Mahoundc1275
idola1325
simulacre1382
marmoseta1398
mammetrya1400
puppet1534
poppet?1548
block1570
Dagona1572
pagoda1582
pagody1588
Mokisso1634
poppet deitya1641
pageant idol1696
pageant thing1696
afgod1769
cult figure1895
1534 T. Swinnerton in tr. Mustre of Scismatyke Bysshopes Prol. sig. E.j As who sholde saye, that no man sauynge the puppet of Rome durst purely and syncerely preche, teche, and wryte the holy worde of god.
1536 R. Morison Lamentation Seditious Rebellyon sig. Biiv Theyr pope, their puppet, their idole, their romayn god wyll not out of their hartis.
1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. x. 215 Thei [sc. the Tartars] make theim selues litle pupettes of silke or of felte,..and do them muche reuerence.
1563 2nd Tome Homelyes sig. Xx.ivv Seneca muche commendeth Dionisius..for his mery robbinge of such decked, and iewelled puppettes.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 56 At each end [of the tomb] was placed a Puppet or Pagod to protect it.
1685 J. Jackson et al. Annot. Holy Bible II. sig. 4A3/1 They set up Puppets and Idols of their own devising, in the room of the true God.
1745 New Gen. Coll. Voy. & Trav. II. iv. iv. 592/1 At this Place are several Tombs, or little Monuments, with Abundance of Puppets and ridiculous Figures of Imagery.
1800 M. Salmon Sheridan's Pronouncing & Spelling Dict. 405/2 Mawmet, puppet, idol.
1809 S. T. Coleridge Friend 23 Nov. 209 The hollow Puppets of a hollow Age Ever idolatrous, and changing ever Its' worthless Idols.
1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind vi. 111 When man has got some way in developing the religious element in him, he begins to catch the device of setting a puppet or a stone as the symbol and representative of the notions of a higher being.
1987 A. W. Geertz Hopi Indian Altar Iconogr. 24 The deity can be represented by a puppet, handstick, idol, mosaic, screen, shield, tile, mural, or masked impersonator.
b. A (typically small) figure representing a human being; a child's doll. Cf. poppet n. 2b. Obsolete.In quot. 1840 cf. poppet n. 2a.
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > doll > [noun]
poppin1440
mammet1461
man of clouts, king of clouts1467
pup-barn?c1475
poppet1483
babe1530
poupe1530
baby1545
puppet1550
baban1570
puppy1659
doll1699
baby doll1725
dolly1790
doll-baby1807
babushka1948
1550 R. Sherry tr. Erasmus Declam. Chyldren in Treat. Schemes & Tropes sig. Jiv If they be so much disposed to play why do they not rather get apes, and litle puppets to play wythall?
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 46 The rootes are..made like litle puppettes and mammettes which come to be sold in England in boxes.
1582 Rates Custome House (new ed.) sig. Dviij Puppets or Babies for Children the groce vi.s. viij.d.
1601 J. Wheeler Treat. Commerce 50 The Merchaundise which they then brought into Englande most, were stone pottes, brushes, puppettes, and toyes for children.
1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity ii. ii. xxi Having noted how Lactantius compared the Idols of the Heathen to the little Puppets that little Girls used to play with, and that the said Idols were but great Puppets for old Fools to play with.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 500. ¶3 The Motherly Airs of my little Daughters when they are playing with their Puppets.
1840 R. H. Barham Leech of Folkestone in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 126 ‘Where did you get this pretty doll, as you call it?’ asked Susan, turning over the puppet.
1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. ii. 20 I looked upon it as a sort of doll—a puppet.
3.
a. A model of a person or animal that can be manipulated to mimic natural movement; (originally) a figure with jointed limbs moved from above by strings or wires, a marionette; (subsequently also) a figure supported and moved from below by rods, or a figure made to be fitted over and moved by the hand, finger, etc. Also: any of the characters in a puppet-show. Cf. poppet n. 3.In early use also: a mechanically operated figure.finger, glove, hand, rod, shadow, string puppet: see the first element.
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > doll > other figures > [noun] > movable by string or wire
puppet1538
marionettea1645
pantine1748
supplejack1776
supple Tam1825
string-jack1863
jumping-jack1883
monkey on a stick1926
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > puppetry > [noun] > puppet
poppin1440
mammet1461
puppet1538
poppet1551
motion1602
puppy1640
neurospast1642
marionettea1645
poupée1785
fantoccini1791
scaramouch1815
shadow figure1851
Judy puppet1897
shadow puppet1923
rod puppet1930
string puppet1937
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Gesticulator, he that playith with puppettes.
1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints 931 Like as a Puppit placed in a play, Whose part once past all men bid take away.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. ii. 235 I could interpret betweene you and your loue If I could see the puppets dallying. View more context for this quotation
1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV i. ii. 61 They are but as your Automata, those artificial Machines or Images called Puppits.
1712 J. Arbuthnot Law is Bottomless-pit xii. 22 You look like a Puppet mov'd by Clock-work.
1748 London Mag. 271 Paper or pastboard puppets, contriv'd to move in all postures.
1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. vii. 85 The adjustment of the wires and strings by which a puppet is moved.
1874 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch V. xlvi. 342 He..improvised a Punch-and-Judy drama with some private home-made puppets.
1932 W. Faulkner Light in August xvi. 359 She begins to speak again, without moving, almost without lip movement, as if she were a puppet.
1958 Oxf. Mag. 6 Feb. 250/2 The Water Babies is said to be the first full-length play to have been performed in this country by puppets.
2004 Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat & Chron. (Nexis) 27 June 1 c She pulls a 5-foot-tall green furry puppet from her bag.
b. A person who impersonates another; an actor, esp. an inferior one. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > mime > [noun] > actor in mime
mummera1456
mute1579
puppeta1592
pantomime1606
pantomimic1617
mumchance1694
mime1784
pantomimist1833
a1592 R. Greene Sc. Hist. Iames IV (1598) sig. A3 Bohan. What were those Puppits that hopt and skipt about me yearwhayle [= erewhile]? Oberon. My subiects.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 33 You bring letters against the King, and take Vanitie the puppets part, against the royaltie of her father. View more context for this quotation
a1668 W. Davenant Play-house to Let (1673) 1 All the dry old Fools of Bartholomew Fair are come to hire our house,..numberless Jack-puddings: the new motion men of Norwich, Op'ra-Puppets.
1777 W. Combe Diabo-lady 16 Satan..with a sly, Sardonic smile, replied: ‘Your claim, fair Puppets, must be here denied’.
c. figurative. A person, esp. one in a prominent position, whose actions are controlled by some other agency, despite appearing to be his or her own. Also: a country or state which is ostensibly independent but is actually under the control of another power. See also Compounds 1b.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > puppet or toy
hackneya1500
toy1573
creature1587
puppet1592
motion1602
baublea1616
plaything1680
dummy1866
society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > [noun] > bringing under control > one who is under control of another
mammetc1390
creature1587
puppet1592
ass1614
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > person as > mere
stale1580
creature1587
puppet1592
motion1602
property1611
looma1650
tool1663
cat's-foot1675
cat's paw1785
paw1824
dummy1866
stooge1937
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > duping, making a fool of > [noun] > gullible person, dupe > a puppet, tool
poppet1551
puppet1592
property1611
tool1663
cat's-foot1675
cat's paw1785
society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [noun] > territory governed by a ruler or state > puppet
puppet1945
1592 Greenes Groats-worth of Witte To Gentl. Acquaint. sig. Fv Those Puppets..that spake from our mouths, those Anticks garnisht in our colours.
1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 25 To make the people see..that their Plantagenet was indeed but a puppit, or a Counterfeit.
1668 R. Howard Great Favourite iii. i. 29 Thou ill-drest Puppet of Authority.
1768 H. Walpole Hist. Doubts 81 He hoped by keeping the memory of Simnel's imposture, to discredit the true duke of York, as another puppet, when ever he should really appear.
1780 J. B. Burges Heroic Epist. from Serjeant Bradshaw 8 Poor servile Puppets, fit for every use, For treasons, riots, votes, or foul abuse.
1841 R. Browning Pippa Passes Introd., in Bells & Pomegranates No. I 4/1 God's puppets, best and worst, Are we.
1885 R. L. Stevenson & F. Stevenson Squire of Dames in More New Arabian Nights 60 He who began as a puppet, his experience told him, was often doomed to perish as a victim.
1905 E. M. Forster Where Angels fear to Tread v. 148 Her ability frightened him. All his life he had been her puppet.
1945 Evening Standard 20 Dec. 3 The role she [sc. Siam] played as a ‘puppet’ of the Japs in South-East Asia, made it essential that she should give restitution to the people who were harmed.
2002 Yale French Stud. 102 124 Philip II..is portrayed as a vain political puppet.
4. derogatory. A person, esp. a woman, whose (esp. gaudy) dress or manner is thought to suggest a lack of substance or individuality. Cf. poppet n. 1. Now rare.Apparently with overtones of senses 2b and 3a (cf. doll n.1 3).
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > dandy > female
nicebeceturc1520
gallant?1550
nicebice1595
puppet1595
coxcomba1640
gimcrack1706
majac1770
moppet1782
petite maîtresse1790
dandizette1821
dudess1883
1595 A. Day Eng. Secretorie (new ed.) i. 70 If she be faire, then a spectacle to gaze on: if foule, then a simpering puppet [1586 poppet] to woonder on.
1601 A. Dent Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen 50 Is it not a shame that women..should make themselues suche Pictures, Puppets and Peacockes as they doo?
1661 J. Evelyn Tyrannus 11 A Fregat newly rigg'd kept not half such a clatter in a storme, as this Puppets Streamers did when the Wind was in his Shroud's.
1733 A. Pope Impertinent 13 Such painted Puppets, such a varnish'd Race Of hollow Gewgaws, only Dress and Face!
1790 Harris's List Covent-Garden Ladies 88 This painted puppet..; before her acquaintance commenced with this son of Levi she promenaded the common road.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 85 A pretender..to the favour of the scornful puppet [Catharine].
1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. vi. 124 But tell me now, ye curséd puppets, Why do ye stir the porridge so?
1921 P. Moeller Helena's Husband 96 Heaven knows I do not lack the will to rid myself of this painted puppet, but where is the instrument ready to my hand?
5. = poppet n. 1. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > person > child > [noun]
wenchelc890
childeOE
littleOE
littlingOE
hired-childc1275
smalla1300
brolla1325
innocentc1325
chickc1330
congeonc1330
impc1380
faunt1382
young onec1384
scionc1390
weea1400
birdc1405
chickenc1440
enfaunta1475
small boyc1475
whelp1483
burden1490
little one1509
brat?a1513
younkerkin1528
kitling1541
urchin1556
loneling1579
breed1586
budling1587
pledge?1587
ragazzo1591
simplicity1592
bantling1593
tadpole1594
two-year-old1594
bratcheta1600
lambkin1600
younker1601
dandling1611
buda1616
eyas-musketa1616
dovelinga1618
whelplinga1618
puppet1623
butter printa1625
chit1625
piggy1625
ninnyc1626
youngster1633
fairya1635
lap-child1655
chitterling1675
squeaker1676
cherub1680
kid1690
wean1692
kinchin1699
getlingc1700
totum17..
charity-child1723
small girl1734
poult1739
elfin1748
piggy-wiggy1766
piccaninny1774
suck-thumb18..
teeny1802
olive1803
sprout1813
stumpie1820
sexennarian1821
totty1822
toddle1825
toddles1828
poppet1830
brancher1833
toad1836
toddler1837
ankle-biter1840
yarkera1842
twopenny1844
weeny1844
tottykins1849
toddlekins1852
brattock1858
nipper1859
sprat1860
ninepins1862
angelet1868
tenas man1870
tad1877
tacker1885
chavvy1886
joey1887
toddleskin1890
thumb-sucker1891
littlie1893
peewee1894
tyke1894
che-ild1896
kiddo1896
mother's bairn1896
childling1903
kipper1905
pick1905
small1907
God forbid1909
preadolescent1909
subadolescent1914
toto1914
snookums1919
tweenie1919
problem child1920
squirt1924
trottie1924
tiddler1927
subteen1929
perisher1935
poopsie1937
pre-schooler1937
pre-teen1938
pre-teener1940
juvie1941
sprog1944
pikkie1945
subteenager1947
pre-teenager1948
pint-size1954
saucepan lid1960
rug rat1964
smallie1984
bosom-child-
1623 P. Massinger Duke of Millaine ii. i. sig. E Marc. For you Puppet. Mari. What of me? Pine-tree. Marc. Little you are, I grant, And haue as little worth, but much lesse wit.
1663 W. Clark Marciano ii. ii. 18 I knew them all since they were puppets.
1759 tr. Horace Satires ii. iii, in W. Duncombe et al. tr. Horace Wks. II. 209 My Dear! my Child! my Puppet! and my Darling!
1767 H. Smith Lett. to Married Women sig. K3 I am just now returned from a nursery, where..I beheld a happy mother with a pretty little puppet at her breast.
1869 A. B. Haven Home Stories 266 Your father's relations have discovered that you are a pretty enough little puppet to display in their drawing-room.
2001 Tallahassee (Florida) Democrat (Nexis) 11 Nov. d1 I'd love to, my little puppet, but I've got to go to work right now.
6. = poppet n. 6. Obsolete. rare.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > case or container > [noun] > for small objects or instruments
etui1611
tweeze1622
puppeta1625
tweezer1654
tweezer-case1686
twee1690
bubble-boy1727
nécessaire1800
poppeta1903
caddy1976
a1625 J. Fletcher Wit without Money (1639) ii. sig. C3v A maide makes conscience of halfe a crowne a weeke for pinnes and puppits.
7. Entomology. A pupa. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [noun] > young or development of young > pupa or chrysalis
nymph1577
nympha1601
aurelia1608
chrysalis1658
puppet1671
pricket1707
pupa1770
chrysalid1777
pupe1819
naiad1918
1671 Acct. of Swammerdam's Historia Generalis Insectorum (1669) in Philos. Trans. 1670 (Royal Soc.) 5 2079 The manner, how the Worms and Caterpillars turn into Puppets [Du. De maner op welke de Wurmen ende de Rupsen in Popkens veranderen (Swammerdam, p. 24)].
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) Puppets..the name given by Swammerdam to the nymphæ of animals, which he distinguishes from the chrysalises by this simple name, calling these the gilt puppets, from their golden colour.
8. Either of the upright stocks of a lathe; = poppet n. 4b. Now chiefly historical.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > lathe > [noun] > lathe-head
poppet-head1665
puppet1680
puppet head1725
poppet1791
lathe-head1889
1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. xii. 207 Then set your Puppets, and wedge them tight up.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. viii. 356/2 The Puppets, are the square peeces of wood..which have the..Iron Pinns in, upon which the work is turned.
1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 208 Upon a strong table of wood..are fixed three cast-iron puppets or uprights.
1852 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) I. 132/1 To make this [sc. a square black-lead pencil] round, it is passed through a hole in an iron or steel puppet.
1933 Folk-lore 44 182 The wood to be turned [on a pole-lathe] is placed between the two puppets upon iron pegs projecting from the puppets.
1964 H. Hodges Artifacts viii. 117 The mandrels were free to rotate in two bearings, the stocks or poppets (puppets).
9. Nautical. = poppet n. 5. Obsolete.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > slip on which ships built or repaired > framework on which vessel rests > timbers supporting ship when launching
ways1581
bilge-ways1769
dogshore1780
driver1781
slice1791
puppet1792
stopping up1805
dog1831
dagger1838
bulge-ways1850
poppet1850
trigger1867
1792 Jrnl. House of Commons 47 362/2 A Plank secured to the Bottom at both Ends of the Bulgeways, to prevent the Heads of the Puppets from flying out.
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 8 Screws, bed or barrel, for raising the heads of large masts..,are made of elm, and consist of two puppets, a bed, and a sole: the puppets are four feet nine inches long, have their lower parts round..,and are cut with a screw; their..head, is larger, and is either eight-square or round.

Compounds

C1.
a. General attributive and objective (chiefly in sense 3a).
puppet body n.
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1898 G. Meredith Odes French Hist. 62 What silly puppet-bodies danced on strings.
2001 Jrnl. Amer. Inst. Conservation 40 7/1 Different parts of the puppet body are made from different sections of the hide..the skin from the belly of the donkey is employed for faces and upper body parts.
puppet drama n.
ΚΠ
1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iii. ii. §19 The subjects of the puppet-dramas were formerly taken from some well-known and popular stories.
1940 ELH 7 308 The puppet drama should be extremely simple in plot, and it should never attempt to carry an intellectual or a moral message.
2006 Jrnl. Japanese Trade & Industry (Nexis) 1 Jan. Shochiku..presented not only kabuki plays but contemporary comedies and Bunraku puppet dramas as well.
puppet fight n.
ΚΠ
1684 T. Creech tr. Horace Epist. ii. i, in tr. Horace Odes, Satyrs, & Epist. (new ed.) 534 Or leave the Stage to see a Puppet-fight; Or to the Bears, for that's the Crowds delight.
1882 T. P. Johnston Patrick Hamilton 29 Why, 'tis a puppet-fight, Always the same puppet knocked upon the head.
1983 Asian Folklore Stud. 42 212 A fight in the audience will take attention away from the most perfectly crafted puppet fight cast upon the screen.
2005 Sarasota (Florida) Herald-Tribune (Nexis) 19 June bv4 Building block castles and puppet fights aren't your typical hush-hush kind of library activities.
puppetland n.
ΚΠ
1827 Blackwood's Mag. 265 The dolls threw stones behind them, and other dolls forthwith arose to people puppetland.
1939 Musical Times 80 708/2 The piano-conductor part of ‘Springtime in Puppetland’..holds out prospects of a pleasant experience in the realm of light music.
1997 Sante Fe New Mexican (Nexis) 25 Apr. 48 Mother Puppet wears a medal with a big heart across her chest, and Father Puppet has materials popping out of his head..(apparently there is no divorce in puppetland).
puppet-maker n.
ΚΠ
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Poupetier, a babe-maker, or puppet-maker.
1740 tr. A. Banier Mythol. & Fables Ancients III. v. viii. 205 Whatever Veneration was paid to the Grand-Nephew of Cæsar, this Deification did not fail to provoke some to rally him; some called him the Puppet-maker.
1860 C. R. Kennedy tr. Demosthenes Olynthiac & Other Public Orations I. 67 Like puppet-makers, you elect your infantry and cavalry officers for the market-place, not for war.
1988 S. Bhatt Brunizem 59 The puppets on every window-sill, every shelf in the puppet-maker's house are waiting.
2006 Guardian (Nexis) 15 Feb. 12 All twinkling eyes and gentleness, Bruna is rather like the kindly old puppet-maker Gepetto in Pinocchio.
puppet-mover n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. xii. vi. 231 The landlady..fell foul on both her Husband and the poor Puppet-mover . View more context for this quotation
1845 Penny Mag. 14 108/1 Much ingenuity was displayed by the ventriloquist and puppet-mover inside the curtains.
puppet-prompter n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1781 W. Cowper Retirem. 312 With limbs of British oak and nerves of wire, And wit that puppet-prompters might inspire.
puppet stage n.
ΚΠ
1594 T. Nashe Terrors of Night in Wks. (Grosart) III. 236 Comes some superfluous humour of ours..and erects a puppet-stage, or some such ridiculous idle childish inuention.
1710 Coll. Poems for & against Dr. Sacheverell 33 So represented, have I seen On Puppet-Stage, a mimick King.
1883 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 537/2 Every one is familiar with the modern hero of the puppet stage, who..slays poor faithful Judy.
2006 Birmingham News (Alabama) (Nexis) 29 Apr. d6 Lynn Coker placed a hand-made puppet stage..in front of the fireplace..then embellished the stage with jester dolls.
puppet string n.
ΚΠ
1842 E. Miall in Nonconf. II. 857 [The human understanding] is destined to higher ends than to be a sort of puppet-string in the hands of state ecclesiastics.
1923 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 34 23 They would choose the leaders of their movements who now pull the puppet strings.
2006 Sunbury/Macedon Ranges Leader (Austral.) (Nexis) 2 May 405 Pulling the puppet strings can be a thankless job..says a 30-year puppetry veteran.
puppet teacher n.
ΚΠ
1602 T. Dekker Satiro-mastix sig. I3 Hold, silence, the puppet-teacher speakes.
2001 Asian Theatre Jrnl. 18 59 When I first met..my puppet teacher..I was not prepared for the education I was to encounter. I had come..for a ten-month study of the traditional wooden puppetry called gombeyata.
puppet theatre n.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > puppetry > [noun] > puppet-theatre
droll-house1705
puppet theatre1726
1726 E. Philips Country Gentleman 4 Apr. 1/1 Punch himself has refus'd to act, unless I am kept out of the Puppet-Theatre.
1896 Atlantic Monthly June 756/2 He..devoted the greater part of his time to carving and painting figures for the puppet theatre.
1991 New Yorker 25 Nov. 26/3 Everything about this puppet theatre serves the sophisticated audience.
puppet work n.
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1618 Bp. T. Morton Def. Innocencie Three Ceremonies xviii. 167 They frame new Religions, which..they (as little children vse to do with the Puppet-works of their owne hands) cast, and breake downe the next day following.
1792 G. Colman Surrender of Calais ii. 36 Blind obedience to the stern will of power,..differs as wide from true impulsive loyalty, as puppet work from nature.
1859 F. W. Robertson Lect. & Addr. on Literary & Social Topics 150 If you compare Shakespeare's Ariel or Puck..with these automatons, you will feel the difference between a living creation and cleverly moved puppet work.
2003 Irish Tatler Aug. 12/1 Look at an exhibition of Edward Carey's puppet work and then zone out to a series on Australian film.
b. Appositive (chiefly in senses 3a and 3c), as puppet government, puppet king, puppet ruler, puppet state, etc.
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1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xxiv. 853/2 To salute this puppet King, and to welcome these papals.
a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 196 He is but a Puppet Saint, that moves he knows not how.
1715 N. Rowe Lady Jane Gray iv. i Their puppet queen reigns here.
1774 R. Lloyd Poet. Wks. II. 127 Can you bow down with reverent awe Before this puppet king of straw?
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. xxiii. 286 She very much reminds us of those puppet-heroines, for whom the showman contrives to dialogue without any skill in ventriloquism.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiii. 299 Scotland would have been a smaller Poland, with a puppet sovereign, a turbulent diet, and an enslaved people.
1935 (title) The puppet state of ‘Manchukuo’.
1971 Standard (Dar es Salaam) 7 Apr. 1/1 Those present [at the conference] were undecided about the relative merits of the Sihanouk Government and the American puppet regime.
1992 Daily Mirror TV Weekly 3 Oct. 5/2 If you want noise, dazzle, big furry puppet dogs who fight the cameras..ask your minder to wake you at 7am.
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puppet man n. = puppet master n.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > puppetry > [noun] > puppeteer
puppet player1601
puppet man1620
motion-man1631
puppet master1631
poppet-playera1656
poppet-shower1715
puppet-showman1715
puppeteer1915
marionettist1918
1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes 2nd Pt. Don Quixote xxvii. 179 Couering his left eye, to apply himselfe to the office of a Puppet man [Sp. titerero]; for this and iuggling hee was excellent at.
1734 J. Swift Strephon & Cloe in Beautiful Young Nymph 23 From yonder Puppet-Man inquire, Who wisely hides his Wood and Wire.
1827 E. Brown Trial of Cain 15 Now by this puppet man, we here may see A striking emblem of the Deity; Who sits behind the curtain of the skies, And manages the play so nice and wise.
1909 Chatterbox 286/2 I saw the old lame puppet-man sitting on the edge of the wild, unenclosed, gorse-covered common-land.
2005 Daily Star (Nexis) 24 Oct. 20 The guy who takes the job will now be just another stooge for the puppet man to play with in his spare time.
puppet master n. a manager of a puppet show; a puppeteer; also figurative.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > puppetry > [noun] > puppeteer
puppet player1601
puppet man1620
motion-man1631
puppet master1631
poppet-playera1656
poppet-shower1715
puppet-showman1715
puppeteer1915
marionettist1918
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > person as > mere > one who uses
user1931
puppet master1965
1631 B. Jonson New Inne v. v. 96 Fidlers, Rushers, Puppet-masters, Iuglers.
1769 J. Wilkes North Briton lxxii. 432 These mongrel characters..see a necessity of putting on a Whig countenance..though they wear it awkardly..while in the more immediate service of the Puppet-Master.
1891 O. Wilde Critic as Artist in Intentions 157 Life cheats us with shadows, like a puppet-master.
1965 M. Allingham Mind Readers ix. 97 Much more worrying was the question of the mind behind their experiments... Who was the puppet master?
1996 Times 20 May 8/3 In characteristic fashion it contained a cartoon of Mr Sen as a puppet-master, pulling the strings of Prince Ranariddh.
puppet valve n. now rare = poppet valve n.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > control(s) > [noun] > valve > disk
puppet-clack1744
puppet valve1783
poppet1864
1783 Encycl. Brit. X. 8277/1 The steam-clack, or puppet-valve..is a brass valve on the top of a pipe opening into the boiler, to let off the steam when it is too strong.
1835 Amer. Railroad Jrnl. 25 Apr. 245/3 Let the valve be..of the kind called puppet valves.
1887 D. A. Low Introd. Machine Drawing (1892) 108 Sketches showing the construction of a conical metal lift or puppet valve and seating.
1911 Times 23 June 5/1 (advt.) After having used and experimented with several different makes of cars equipped with the old system of puppet valve engines.., I purchased two Daimler cars.

Derivatives

ˈpuppetdom n. the state or condition of being a puppet; puppets collectively.
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1851 S. Judd Margaret (rev. ed.) II. ii. vi. 82 Thy health we drink, thy name we praise, Great King of Puppetdom! defender by the grace of God of England, France and America.
1976 C. R. Stecyk Frontier Tales in Dogtown (2000) 34 It's time for the finals as Buffalo Bob..exchanges witticisms with Howdy Doody, the Will Rogers of puppetdom.
2005 Sunday Times (Nexis) 6 Feb. 20 The reduction of Iraq to puppetdom will stand in history as an act of shameless bullying.
ˈpuppethood n. the state or condition of being a puppet.
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1885 Sat. Rev. 19 Sept. 369/2 The dethronement or reduction to puppethood of native dynasties.
1981 Mind 90 405 The thought that puppets are blameworthy for not recognizing their puppethood..is at worst incoherent and at best simply false.
2005 Village Voice (Nexis) 29 Nov. 82 Bigonzetti makes perfunctory references to puppethood. Once, the down-and-out hero slumps over and dangles his forearms like an abandoned marionette.
puppetical adj. Obsolete rare relating to a puppet.
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1755 J. Kidgell Card II. iv. xi. 56 My Punch (to use a puppetical Expression) was a good, bad and indifferent sort of a Partner.
ˈpuppetism n. the state or condition of being a puppet; (also) puppetry.
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1801 Ld. Campbell Let. 22 Apr. in Life (1881) I. iii. 69 The intimacy between him [sc. Addington] and Pitt continues as great as ever, and no doubt of his puppetism any longer remains.
1924 Fayetteville (Arkansas) Daily Democrat 8 Mar. 3/1 The Shadowgraph..is Mr. Sarg's newest devise for showing his famous dolls in action, and is a form of animated silhouette, based on ancient Chinese puppetism.
1988 G. Shellenbarger in R. Feldman & M. Betzold End of Line ii. 60 A salaried person is subjected to puppetism. You have instructions that come down from upper-echelon management, and you don't question them.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

puppetv.

Brit. /ˈpʌpɪt/, U.S. /ˈpəpət/
Inflections: Present participle puppeting, puppetting; past participle puppeted, puppetted;
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: puppet n.
Etymology: < puppet n. Compare poppet v.
1. transitive. To dress (a person) up like a puppet. Obsolete. rare.Perhaps with overtones of puppet n. 4.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > in specific way > other
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wear?c1225
wear?a1366
hapc1390
to-ragc1430
to make up1593
puppet1635
to set out1688
undress1818
overclothe1819
toilet1842
1635 F. Quarles Emblemes v. viii. 273 Whom thy fond Indulgence decks And puppets up in soft, in silken weeds.
2. intransitive. Apparently: to behave like a puppet . Obsolete. rare.
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a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Sir John van Olden Barnavelt (1980) ii. ii. 846 Good Ladies, no more Councells, this is no time to puppet in.
3. transitive. To manipulate like a puppet; to control. Frequently in passive.
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society > authority > control > [verb (transitive)]
wieldeOE
redeOE
temperc1000
wisc1000
yemec1000
aweldc1175
guy13..
rule1340
attemperc1374
stightlea1375
justifya1393
governa1400
moder1414
control1495
moderate1534
rein1557
manage1560
sway1587
to bear (a rein) upon1603
bridle1615
ephorize1647
puppet1840
coact1855
boss1856
run1869
swing1873
the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > treat cunningly [verb (transitive)] > manage with cunning
puppet1840
manipulate1862
jockey1890
1840 Times 8 Jan. 6/5 Even these allurements..will not always secure a produceable person to undergo the dishonour of being puppeted, patted, and patronized by such a master as the Dublin demagogue.
1917 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Jrnl.-Gaz. 20 Feb. 8/1 The wags of the comic papers..[make] the map of the world appear as a chess board, its figures being puppeted about by forces seen and unseen.
1981 R. Scruton Fortnight's Anger iv. 108 As she moaned in his embrace he had the impression of a distant spirit puppetting her body.
2001 D. Thompson Funk ii. 210 Dobson portrays a federal drug agent..battling drug dealers puppeted by, of all people, Shelley Winters.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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