puppet
substantivoverbocorrente nos diálogos
- Reino Unido//ˈpʌpɪt//
- Nova Zelândia//ˈpɐpət//
- //ˈpʊpɪt//
Any small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings or rods, or in the form of a glove.
substantivo
- 1
Any small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings or rods, or in the form of a glove.
- 2
figuradoA person, country, etc, controlled by another.
These men , from no worse motive that could be discovered than a thirst after knowledge beyond their sphere , committed burglary upon the barn in which the puppets had been consigned to repose
Every act of a Roman, from birth to death, from dawn to night, was controlled and supervised by some presiding deity. Man was thus virtually a symbolic puppet in the hands of the Roman pantheon.
- 3
obsoletoA poppet; a small image in the human form; a doll.
- 4
The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe.
Etimologia
From Middle English popet, probably from, though attested earlier than, Middle French poupette, diminutive of poupée (cf. also Medieval Latin *pupata), ultimately derived from Latin pupa (“doll, puppet; girl”). The nominal form first appears c. 1531, and the verbal form c. 1635. See also puppy.
verbo
- 1
figuradoTo control or manipulate like a puppet.
Formas
- plural
- puppets
- pretérito
- puppeted
- particípio passado
- puppeted
- gerúndio
- puppeting
- 3.ª pessoa do singular
- puppets
puppet · Any small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings or rods, or in the form of a glove.
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