| 释义 |
dummy1 noundummy2 adjective dummydum‧my1 /ˈdʌmi/ noun (plural dummies) [countable]  
dummy1Origin: 1500-1600 ➔ DUMB1 - a dressmaker's dummy
- She's no dummy.
- That's what I just said, dummy.
- A dummy has all the restrictive properties of a real job but no time content.
- Babies she had seen before had fat fleshy faces that spread from a central dummy.
- Briers threw two dummies and sprinted outside Henry Paul for his second try.
- He just walked around like a dummy with the rest of us with an awkward scope on his rifle.
- I bundle the blind dummy out.
- It was a perfectly ordinary leg from a shop dummy.
- The dummy took three weeks' work by a team of volunteers, mostly part-time and helping when they could.
► Babiesbaby carriage, nounbabyish, adjectivebaby milk, nounbaby walker, nounbib, nounbooster seat, nounbottle, nounbottle-feed, verbbouncing, adjectivebuggy, nounchange, verbcradle, nouncreche, nouncrib, nouncrib death, nouncrow, verbcut, verbday care, noundiaper, noundiaper rash, noundummy, nounexpress, verbfeed, nounfeeding-bottle, nounformula, nounfractious, adjectivehood, nounmatinée jacket, nounmilk, nounMoses basket, nounnappy, nounnightlight, nounnipple, nounnursery, nounpacifier, nounpapoose, nounperambulator, nounpoop, nounpoo-poo, nounpotty, nounpotty-training, nounpram, nounpushchair, nounrusk, nounsitter, nounsling, nounspoon-feed, verbstroller, nounswaddling clothes, nounteat, nounzwieback, noun 1 for clothes a model that is the shape and size of a person, especially used in order to show clothes in a shop or when you are making clothes:  a shop-window dummy a tailor’s dummy2copy an object that is made to look like a tool, weapon, vehicle etc but which you cannot use: During practice runs, the warheads in the missiles will be dummies.3doll a small model of a person, with a mouth that can be moved so that it looks as though it is talking, used for entertainment: a ventriloquist’s dummy4sports British English a move in a sport such as football in which a player pretends to pass the ball but does not, in order to deceive the other team’s players5for babies British English a specially shaped rubber object that you put in a baby’s mouth for it to suck SYN pacifier American English6stupid person especially American English informal someone who is stupid: No, you dummy. The other hand.7card game cards that are placed on the table by one player for all the other players to see in a game of bridge → spit the dummy at spit1dummy1 noundummy2 adjective dummydummy2 adjective [only before noun] - dummy rifles
- Semionov threatened the pilot with a dummy hand grenade and forced him to land the plane.
- By then Ward was coming down on to the track, his false arm and dummy hand hanging limp at his side.
- Grayson dropped a ball, Kevin Maggs ran on a dummy run from the scrum and Catt was through for the try.
- He claims that his dummy head does likewise.
- It is a particular example of a no-operation or dummy instruction.
- The candidates had been asked to supply a dummy paper with a lead story and some idea of content.
an object that is made to look real for dishonest purposes► fake a copy of a valuable object or painting that is intended to make people think it is real: · Is the vase a genuine antique or a fake? ► forgery a copy of a document, painting, or banknote that is made to look real for dishonest purposes: · The painting, believed to be by Renoir, turned out to be a very clever forgery. ► dummy a dummy object is one that is made to look like the real object but cannot be used: · dummy rifles· Semionov threatened the pilot with a dummy hand grenade and forced him to land the plane. a dummy tool, weapon, vehicle etc is made to look like a real one but you cannot use it SYN replica: a dummy rifle |