dummy

A silent person; a person who does not talk.dated

• The man's name […] was engraved in the centre, and beneath this, written in ink with the same elaborate precision as the engraving, there was a brief message. I am a deaf-mute, but I read the lips and understand what is said to me. Please d

A stupid person.

• Don't be such a dummy!

A term of address.slang

• Hey dummy, what's good wit chu?

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.

• To understand the effects of the accident, we dropped a dummy from the rooftop.

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.

• The hammer and drill in the display are dummies.

A pacifier; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby.AustraliaIrelandNew-Zealand

• The baby wants her dummy.

A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.

A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.

• The pronoun "it" in "It's a mystery why this happened" is a dummy.

To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without all of the intended functionality.

• The carpenters dummied some props for the rehearsals.

To feint.

• The more glamorous qualities usually associated with him are skill and pace and he used those to race on to a ball across him and dummy a defender before having a right-foot shot saved.
• For the first, the 30-year-old allowed Walcott space on the right to send in a pass that was expertly dummied by Samir Nasri, allowing Van Persie to swivel and smash right-footed past Robert Green.

Extremely.USslang

• It's dummy hot outside.