Dummy

English

Noun

Dummy (plural dummies)

1. A silent person; a person who does not talk.
2. An unintelligent person.
3. A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
4. Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
5. A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
6. (Australian, New Zealand, UK) A pacifier.
7. (bridge (card game)) The partner of the winning bidder, who shows his or her hand.
8. (UK) A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player in sport; feint.
9. (linguistics) A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
10. (programming) An unused parameter or value.

Verb

Dummy (third-person singular simple present dummies, present participle dummying, simple past and past participle dummied)

1. To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.
2. To feint

Synonyms

• (a thing in the form of a person): mannequin, marionette
• (a pacifier): pacifier (US), soother (Canada)