'Puppet' definitions:
Definition of 'puppet'
From: WordNet
noun
A small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer [syn: puppet, marionette]
noun
A person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else [syn: creature, tool, puppet]
noun
A doll with a hollow head of a person or animal and a cloth body; intended to fit over the hand and be manipulated with the fingers
Definition of 'Puppet'
From: GCIDE
- Puppet \Pup"pet\, n. [OE. popet, OF. poupette; akin to F. poup['e]e a doll, probably from L. puppa, pupa, a girl, doll, puppet. Cf. Poupeton, Pupa, Pupil, Puppy.] [Written also poppet.]
- 1. A small image in the human form; a doll. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A similar figure moved by the hand or by a wire in a mock drama; a marionette; a wooden actor in a play. [1913 Webster]
- At the pipes of some carved organ move, The gilded puppets dance. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 3. One controlled in his action by the will of another; a tool; -- so used in contempt. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Mach.) The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe. [1913 Webster]
- Puppet master. Same as Puppetman.
- Puppet play, a puppet show.
- Puppet player, one who manages the motions of puppets.
- Puppet show, a mock drama performed by puppets moved by wires.
- Puppet valve, a valve in the form of a circular disk, which covers a hole in its seat, and opens by moving bodily away from the seat while remaining parallel with it, -- used in steam engines, pumps, safety valves, etc. Its edge is often beveled, and fits in a conical recess in the seat when the valve is closed. See the valves shown in Illusts. of Plunger pump, and Safety valve, under Plunger, and Safety. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'puppet'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adherent,
- agate,
- agent,
- amanuensis,
- ancilla,
- apple-polisher,
- appliance,
- ass-licker,
- baby,
- backscratcher,
- backslapper,
- baggage agent,
- ball,
- baseball bat,
- bat,
- battledore,
- bauble,
- blocks,
- bootlick,
- bootlicker,
- brown-nose,
- brownie,
- business agent,
- bust,
- carving,
- Charlie McCarthy,
- checkerboard,
- chessboard,
- cipher,
- claim agent,
- clawback,
- clerk,
- club,
- cockhorse,
- commercial agent,
- commission agent,
- consignee,
- contrivance,
- courtier,
- creature,
- cricket bat,
- cringer,
- cue,
- customer agent,
- device,
- disciple,
- doll,
- doll carriage,
- dolly,
- dud,
- dummy,
- duodecimo,
- dupe,
- Elzevir,
- factor,
- fantoccini,
- fawner,
- fed,
- Federal,
- federal agent,
- figure,
- figurehead,
- figurine,
- flatterer,
- flunky,
- follower,
- footlicker,
- freight agent,
- front,
- front man,
- functionary,
- general agent,
- gewgaw,
- gillie,
- gimcrack,
- gingerbread man,
- go-between,
- golf club,
- goon,
- groveler,
- handmaid,
- handmaiden,
- handshaker,
- hanger-on,
- helot,
- henchman,
- hireling,
- hobbyhorse,
- hollow man,
- implement,
- instrument,
- insurance agent,
- interagent,
- intermediary,
- intermediate,
- intermedium,
- jack-in-the-box,
- jackal,
- jacks,
- jackstones,
- jackstraw,
- jackstraws,
- kickshaw,
- knickknack,
- kowtower,
- lackey,
- land agent,
- law agent,
- lay figure,
- led captain,
- lever,
- lickspit,
- lickspittle,
- literary agent,
- loan agent,
- man,
- man of straw,
- manikin,
- mannequin,
- marble,
- marionette,
- mealymouth,
- mechanism,
- mediator,
- medium,
- microcosm,
- midwife,
- mig,
- mini,
- miniature,
- minion,
- minny,
- model,
- monument,
- myrmidon,
- nebbish,
- news agent,
- nobody,
- nominal head,
- nonentity,
- nothing,
- nullity,
- official,
- organ,
- paper doll,
- parliamentary agent,
- passenger agent,
- patsy,
- pawn,
- peon,
- pick-up sticks,
- pinwheel,
- plaything,
- portrait bust,
- press agent,
- purchasing agent,
- pushover,
- racket,
- rag doll,
- real estate agent,
- rocking horse,
- sales agent,
- satellite,
- scarecrow,
- sculpture,
- secretary,
- serf,
- servant,
- slave,
- snowman,
- spaniel,
- special agent,
- sport,
- station agent,
- statuary,
- statue,
- statuette,
- steelie,
- steward,
- stooge,
- subminiature,
- suck,
- sucker,
- sycophant,
- taw,
- teetotum,
- theatrical agent,
- thing of naught,
- thug,
- ticket agent,
- timeserver,
- toad,
- toady,
- tool,
- top,
- toy,
- toy soldier,
- travel agent,
- trifle,
- trinket,
- truckler,
- tufthunter,
- twelvemo,
- vehicle,
- votary,
- walking delegate,
- wax figure,
- waxwork,
- whim-wham,
- wood carving,
- yes-man,
- zero