Dummy \Dum"my\, a. [See Dumb.]
   1. Silent; mute; noiseless; as a dummy engine.
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   2. Fictitious or sham; feigned; as, a dummy watch.
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   Dummy car. See under Car.
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	Dummy \Dum"my\, n.; pl. Dummies.
   1. One who is dumb. --H. Smith.
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   2. A sham package in a shop, or one which does not contain
      what its exterior indicates.
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   3. An imitation or copy of something, to be used as a
      substitute; a model; a lay figure; as, a figure on which
      clothing is exhibited in shop windows; a blank paper copy
      used to show the size of the future book, etc.
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   4. (Drama) One who plays a merely nominal part in any action;
      a sham character.
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   5. A thick-witted person; a dolt. [Colloq.]
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   6. (Railroad) A locomotive with condensing engines, and,
      hence, without the noise of escaping steam; also, a dummy
      car.
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   7. (Card Playing) The fourth or exposed hand when three
      persons play at a four-handed game of cards.
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   8. A floating barge connected with a pier. --Knight.
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   To play dummy, to play the exposed or dummy hand in cards.
      The partner of the dummy plays it. Dumose

	

	dummy
    adj 1: having the appearance of being real but lacking capacity
           to function; "a dummy corporation"
    n 1: a person who does not talk [syn: dummy, silent person]
    2: an ignorant or foolish person [syn: dumbbell, dummy,
       dope, boob, booby, pinhead]
    3: a figure representing the human form
    4: a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
       [syn: blank, dummy, blank shell]
    v 1: make a dummy of; "dummy up the books that are to be
         published" [syn: dummy, dummy up]

	

	380 Moby Thesaurus words for "dummy":
   Boeotian, Charlie McCarthy, Intertype, Linotype, Monotype,
   a nobody, a nothing, ace, adherent, advocate, affected, agent,
   alter ego, alternate, alternative, amicus curiae, analogy, ancilla,
   apocryphal, appliance, artificial, ass, assumed, attorney, backup,
   backup man, bastard, best bower, block, blockhead, bogus, bower,
   brummagem, burlesque, bust, cards, carving, champion, change,
   changeling, cheat, cipher, clay model, clinquant, clod, clubs,
   cold-type typesetting, colorable, colored, common man, comparison,
   composing, composing stick, composition, computerized typesetting,
   contrivance, copy, counterfeit, counterfeited, creature, deaf-mute,
   deck, deputy, deuce, device, diamonds, dimwit, disciple, distorted,
   doll, dolly, dolt, donkey, dope, double, dressed up, dud, dullard,
   dullhead, dumb cluck, dumbbell, dummkopf, dunce, dupe, duplication,
   embellished, embroidered, equal, equivalent, ersatz, exchange,
   executive officer, exponent, face cards, facsimile, factitious,
   fake, faked, fakement, false, falsified, fantoccini, feigned,
   fictitious, fictive, figure, figurehead, figurine, fill-in, flunky,
   flush, follower, fool, forgery, frame-up, fraud, front, front man,
   full house, furniture, galley chase, garbled, ghost, ghostwriter,
   gillie, gingerbread man, go-between, goon, gowk, hand, handmaid,
   handmaiden, hanger-on, hearts, henchman, hoax, hollow man,
   hot-metal typesetting, idiot, ignoramus, illegitimate, imitation,
   implement, imposition, impostor, insignificancy, instrument,
   interagent, intermediary, intermediate, intermedium, jack, jackal,
   jackstraw, jobbernowl, joker, junk, junky, justification, king,
   knave, knockoff, lackey, lackwit, lamebrain, lay figure, layout,
   left bower, lever, lieutenant, lightweight, likeness, line of type,
   little fellow, little guy, locum, locum tenens, looby, loon,
   make-believe, makeshift, man, man of straw, man-made, manikin,
   mannequin, mannikin, marionette, mechanism, mediator, mediocrity,
   medium, metaphor, metonymy, midwife, minion, mock, mock-up, model,
   monument, moron, mute, myrmidon, nebbish, next best thing, niais,
   nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nitwit, nobody, nobody one knows,
   noddy, nominal head, nonentity, nothing, nullity, numskull,
   obscurity, organ, pacifier, pack, pair, paranymph, paraphrase,
   parody, paste, pawn, personnel, perverted, phony, photocomposition,
   photosetting, phototypesetter, phototypesetting machine,
   picture cards, pilot model, pinch, pinch hitter, pinchbeck,
   pip-squeak, playing cards, plaything, pleader, portrait bust,
   pretended, procurator, provisional, proxy, pseudo, punk, puppet,
   pushover, put, put-on, put-up job, quasi, queen, queer, quoin,
   relief, replacement, replica, representation, representative,
   reprint, reproduction, reserve, reserves, ringer, rip-off, round,
   royal flush, rubber, ruff, runt, sample, satellite, scarecrow,
   scrub, sculpture, second in command, second string, secondary,
   self-styled, servant, setting, sham, shoddy, shrimp, sign,
   simpleton, simulacrum, simulated, simulation, singleton, slave,
   slug, small fry, small potato, small potatoes, snowman, so-called,
   soi-disant, spades, spare, spares, spurious, squirt, squit,
   stand-in, statuary, statue, statuette, stooge, stopgap, straight,
   stupid, sub, substituent, substitute, substitution, succedaneum,
   superseder, supplanter, supposititious, surrogate, swindle,
   sycophant, symbol, synecdoche, synthetic, tentative, thickwit,
   thing of naught, third string, thug, tin, tinsel, titivated, token,
   tool, toy, travesty, trey, trick, trifle, trump, twisted,
   typesetting, typesetting machine, unauthentic, understudy,
   ungenuine, unnatural, unreal, utility, utility man, utility player,
   vehicle, version, vicar, vicar general, vicarious, vice,
   vice-president, vice-regent, vicegerent, votary, warped,
   wax figure, waxwork, whiffet, whippersnapper, whited sepulcher,
   witling, wood carving, wood model, yes-man, zero