puppet-playingn.
/ˈpʌpᵻtˌpleɪɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpəpətˌpleɪɪŋ/ rare.
The action of staging a puppet play; puppetry.
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puppet-playing1646
puppetry1857
puppeteering1920
1646 tr. Acts & Articles Synod Reformed Churches France 69 Mummery, Jugling, Gaming, Puppet playing shall not be tollerated, neither yet a French game, called Faire le Roy bait.
1692 J. Quick Synodicon I. 194 To that Article of Players and Mummers, shall be added Juglers, Players of Hocus-pocus, Tricks of Goblets, Puppet-playing [etc.].
1769 T. Smollett Adventures of Atom 167 Yak-strot, who understood mechanics, and had studied the art of puppet-playing, tried an experiment.
1951 Educ. Theatre Jrnl. 3 46/2 In the early days of puppet playing the joruri reciter was considered the most important member of company.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
puppet-playingadj.
/ˈpʌpᵻtˌpleɪɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpəpətˌpleɪɪŋ/ rare.
That operates a puppet or puppets. Also figurative.
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1624 J. Vicars tr. G. Goodwin Babels Balm 102 O Puppet-playing Papists, Triflers vaine.
1951 Educ. Theatre Jrnl. 3 48/1 A conventional tower symbolic of the puppet-playing Ronin of seventeenth century Osaka.
1998 Art Bull. 80 298/2 Hogarth's puppet-playing preacher.
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