Meaning of "dummy" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DUMMY

See dumb, -y³.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF DUMMY

dummy  [ˈdʌmɪ]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DUMMY

Dummy is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb dummy in English.

WHAT DOES DUMMY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of dummy in the English dictionary

The first definition of dummy in the dictionary is a figure representing the human form, used for displaying clothes, in a ventriloquist's act, as a target, etc. Other definition of dummy is a copy or imitation of an object, often lacking some essential feature of the original. Dummy is also a stupid person; fool.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO DUMMY

PRESENT

Present

I dummy

you dummy

he/she/it dummies

we dummy

you dummy

they dummy

Present continuous

I am dummying

you are dummying

he/she/it is dummying

we are dummying

you are dummying

they are dummying

Present perfect

I have dummied

you have dummied

he/she/it has dummied

we have dummied

you have dummied

they have dummied

Present perfect continuous

I have been dummying

you have been dummying

he/she/it has been dummying

we have been dummying

you have been dummying

they have been dummying

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I dummied

you dummied

he/she/it dummied

we dummied

you dummied

they dummied

Past continuous

I was dummying

you were dummying

he/she/it was dummying

we were dummying

you were dummying

they were dummying

Past perfect

I had dummied

you had dummied

he/she/it had dummied

we had dummied

you had dummied

they had dummied

Past perfect continuous

I had been dummying

you had been dummying

he/she/it had been dummying

we had been dummying

you had been dummying

they had been dummying

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will dummy

you will dummy

he/she/it will dummy

we will dummy

you will dummy

they will dummy

Future continuous

I will be dummying

you will be dummying

he/she/it will be dummying

we will be dummying

you will be dummying

they will be dummying

Future perfect

I will have dummied

you will have dummied

he/she/it will have dummied

we will have dummied

you will have dummied

they will have dummied

Future perfect continuous

I will have been dummying

you will have been dummying

he/she/it will have been dummying

we will have been dummying

you will have been dummying

they will have been dummying

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would dummy

you would dummy

he/she/it would dummy

we would dummy

you would dummy

they would dummy

Conditional continuous

I would be dummying

you would be dummying

he/she/it would be dummying

we would be dummying

you would be dummying

they would be dummying

Conditional perfect

I would have dummy

you would have dummy

he/she/it would have dummy

we would have dummy

you would have dummy

they would have dummy

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been dummying

you would have been dummying

he/she/it would have been dummying

we would have been dummying

you would have been dummying

they would have been dummying

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you dummy
we let´s dummy
you dummy

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to dummy

Past participle

dummied

Present Participle

dummying

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «DUMMY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «dummy» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of dummy

artificial · berk · blockhead · bogan · bogus · charlie · coot · copy · counterfeit · dickhead · dimwit · dipstick · divvy · dolt · doofus · dork · dullard · dumb-ass · dunce · duplicate · dweeb · eejit · fake · false · fathead · figure · fool · form · fuckwit · geek · gobshite · gonzo · idiot · imitation · jerk · lamebrain · lay figure · manikin · mannequin · mock · model · nitwit · numpty · oaf · pillock · plank · plonker · prat · prick · putz · replica · schmuck · sham · simpleton · simulated · thicko · wally · weenie

TRANSLATION OF DUMMY

Find out the translation of dummy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of dummy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dummy» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 人体模型
• Translator English - Spanish: maniquí
• English: dummy
• Translator English - Hindi: डमी
• Translator English - Arabic: أَبْكَم
• Translator English - Russian: манекен
• Translator English - Portuguese: boneco
• Translator English - Bengali: পুতুল
• Translator English - French: mannequin
• Translator English - Malay: Dummy
• Translator English - German: Schaufensterpuppe
• Translator English - Japanese: マネキン
• Translator English - Korean: 모형
• Translator English - Javanese: Dummy
• Translator English - Vietnamese: người nộm ma nơ canh
• Translator English - Tamil: போலி
• Translator English - Marathi: बनावट
• Translator English - Turkish: kukla
• Translator English - Italian: manichino
• Translator English - Polish: manekin
• Translator English - Ukrainian: манекен
• Translator English - Romanian: manechin
• Translator English - Greek: ομοίωμα
• Translator English - Afrikaans: dummy
• Translator English - Swedish: attrapp
• Translator English - Norwegian: utstillingsfigur

10 QUOTES WITH «DUMMY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word dummy.

1

Matthew Bourne

I saw the Nutcracker to be a dummy as I thought of its mouth moving like a nutcracker - and also find them pretty scary as they almost have a life of their own.

2

Jeff Dunham

When I was eight years old, I got a dummy for Christmas and started teaching myself. I got books and records and sat in front of the bathroom mirror, practising. I did my first show in the third grade and just kept going; there was no reason to quit.

3

Jeff Dunham

I think there's a lot of, unfortunately, unfunny ventriloquists out there, so they've got a bad rap. It came after Edgar Bergen because everybody had a little cheeky boy dummy like Charlie McCarthy, and everybody decided to become a ventriloquist because Bergen had popularized it. He brought it back from the doldrums of vaudeville.

4

Jeff Dunham

Up until college age I was using the typical little-boy dummy that sits on the knee and makes woodpecker jokes. My first original character didn't happen until later, and that was Jose the Jalapeno on a Stick.

5

Jeff Dunham

I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual compared to most of my friends was that I was an only child... I don't think that's why my parents gave me a dummy, at least they've never copped to it.

6

Roger Goodell

My goal was to prove to my family I wasn't a dummy.

7

Alan Ladd

I was a dummy in school.

8

Siddhartha Mukherjee

I think when we use 'stress', we are often using a kind of dummy word to try to fit many different things into one big category.

9

Ezra Pound

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

10

Don Rickles

Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DUMMY»

Discover the use of dummy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dummy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Goosebumps HorrorLand: Revenge of the living dummy. #1

Britney battles against her cousin's new ventriloquist dummy and discovers a frightening secret in a new amusement park called HorrorLand.

R. L. Stine, 2008

Dummy Boards and Chimney Boards

This book presents their true origins in seventeenth century 'Trompe l'oeil' painting and discusses the purposes to which they were put.

Clare Graham, 1988

Hey Dummy!

We all learned a most powerful lesson in the resiliency of the human spirit." ~ Larry Crawford, High School Principal Lordstown, Ohio. Today, Lonnie J. Clinkscale, MBA, is an accomplished speaker, author, and licensed minister.

Lonnie Clinkscale, 2009

Dummy Up and Deal: Inside the Culture of Casino Dealing

Dummy Up and Deal is a vivid and colorful insider's view of the casino industry, a fascinating glimpse behind the glitter into the real world of the casino worker.

H. Lee Barnes, 2005

Regression with Dummy Variables

Beginning with the simplest model, Hardy probes the use of dummy variable regression in increasingly complex specifications, exploring issues such as: interaction, heteroscedasticity, multiple comparisons and significance testing, the use ...

Melissa A. Hardy, 1993

116 Wing Tsun Dummy Techniques

The book contents a description of the origin and development of the Wing Tsun dummy, illustrations of the wooden dummies, the 116 Wing Tsun (Wing Chun) dummy techniques, Applications and explanations of the Wing Tsun dummy techniques, as ...

Chun Yip, Ting Leung, 1998

Classic Goosebumps #1: Night of the Living Dummy

Just how scary? You'll never know unless you crack open this classic prequel! Discover the fan-favorite thriller and chiller that first introduced the world to the wooden face of fear. The puppet who pulls all the strings.

R.l. Stine, 2011

Battling the inner dummy: the craziness of apparently normal ...

Shares anecdotes about seemingly normal, intelligent adults, including celebrities, whose irrational impulses cause them problems

David L. Weiner, Gilbert M. Hefter, 1999

Night of the Living Dummy Three

The children of a former ventriloquist, Trina and Dan O'Dell, think that the collection of dummies in the attic is neat until they begin to hear strange voices and find the dummies appearing in unexpected places.

R. L. Stine, 2005

Missing Data: A Gentle Introduction

The method involves creating two variables that correspond with the variable that is missing data: a binary dummy ... Using our previously described notation, we cre- ate the dummy variable D, coding the missing data for X as 1s and the ...

Patrick E. McKnight, Katherine M. McKnight, Souraya Sidani, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DUMMY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dummy is used in the context of the following news items.

'Don't be a dummy': Man tries to fool Toronto police by using clothed …

TORONTO — For Toronto police, the message is clear: Don't be a dummy. Police charged a man Wednesday for illegally driving in an HOV ... «National Post, Jul 15»

"Dummy" pitstops outlawed

After Mercedes attempted a “dummy” pitstop at the British Grand Prix, the FIA have outlawed the practice. Motorsport.com reported that teams ... «Planet F1, Jul 15»

NZ man fined $600 for mid-air dummy spit

An episode of air rage sparked by a passenger's reclining seat has cost a New Zealand man $600. Shane Mathew Diedrichs was fined in the ... «Brisbane Times, Jul 15»

'It's perfect' - Cristiano Ronaldo meets semi-naked silicon dummy of …

Cristiano Ronaldo came face to face with a life-sized silicon dummy model of himself while promoting his new... whatever it is these things are, ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»

Your customer experience is your customer experience, dummy!

What the customer experiences when dealing or buying from you is the definition of your brand, your company and your product, so why do so ... «SmartCompany.com.au, Jul 15»

Arles 2015 : Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Awards

For the first time, les Rencontres d'Arles is offering an award to assist with the publication of a dummy book : Luma Rencontres Dummy Book ... «The Eye of Photography, Jul 15»

Cristiano Ronaldo meets semi-naked silicon dummy of himself on …

Cristiano Ronaldo came face to face with a life-sized silicon dummy model of himself while promoting his new... whatever it is these things are, ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»

Watch RTE Crash Test Dummy Carl Mullan's latest hilarious prank

Strolling around the RTE 2fm offices, the Crash Test Dummy can be heard gleefully startling his colleagues - reminding them that they're "a ... «Irish Mirror, Jul 15»

Crash Test Dummy Tenses Up Before Impact

MUNICH—Toyota has created a new generation of virtual THUMS (Total Human Model for Safety), aka crash test dummy. Like its predecessors ... «EE Times, Jul 15»

Ventriloquist Superstar Jeff Dunham Sues Over Dummy Piracy

Hollywood has a dispute over a dummy named "Walter" on its hands. Jeff Dunham, the ventriloquist, producer and stand-up comedian, created ... «Hollywood Reporter, Jul 15»