puppetn.

Brit.

/ˈpʌpɪt/, U.S.

/ˈpəpət/

Forms: 1500s pupette, 1500s puppitte, 1500s puppyt, 1500s–1600s puppette, 1500s–1700s puppit, 1500s– puppet, 1600s pupet.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: poppet n.

Etymology: Variant of poppet n.; now the usual form in sense 3. With sense 1, which is not paralleled at poppet n., compare puppy n. and discussion at that entry.In sense 7 after Dutch †popken (1669 in an apparently isolated attestation in the source reviewed in quot. 1671); compare pupa n. and the Germanic parallels cited at that entry.

I. A puppy.

†1. A small dog; a puppy. Obsolete.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > pet

puppy1486

messana1500

puppet?1531

minx1542

pupprelle1583

lapdoga1684

fan-fan1834

snookums1919

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > puppy

whelpc950

pup1542

puppy1567

pupsie?1576

puppy doga1616

whelplinga1618

puppet1652

dogling1830

?1531 R. Barnes Supplic. Kinge Henrye VIII f. lxxx As a puppet which springeth vp & doune & cryythe pepe pepe and gothe his waye.

1579 T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things ii. 47 Being ignoraunt that his..Dogge was infect with madnesse: he himselfe within fowre monthes after, became mad... Which let them marke & consider that haue such pleasure in lytle Puppyts.

1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders 147 The great curres..the litle puppets.

1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 336 She replied, Persa was dead, meaning her whelp or Puppet.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. ix. 183/2 Whelpes, or Puppits, are..whelped blind.

II. An image of a human being or a person or thing resembling one.

a. depreciative. An idolatrous image, an idol; any material object that is worshipped. Cf. poppet n. 2c.

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the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > idol

godeOE

anlikenessOE

stockc1000

mammetc1225

Mahometc1275

Mahoundc1275

idola1325

simulacre1382

marmoseta1398

mammetrya1400

puppet1534

poppet?1548

block1570

Dagona1572

pagoda1582

pagody1588

Mokisso1634

poppet deitya1641

pageant idol1696

pageant thing1696

afgod1769

cult figure1895

1534 T. Swinnerton in tr. Mustre of Scismatyke Bysshopes Prol. sig. E.j As who sholde saye, that no man sauynge the puppet of Rome durst purely and syncerely preche, teche, and wryte the holy worde of god.

1536 R. Morison Lamentation Seditious Rebellyon sig. Bii^v Theyr pope, their puppet, their idole, their romayn god wyll not out of their hartis.

1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. x. 215 Thei [sc. the Tartars] make theim selues litle pupettes of silke or of felte,..and do them muche reuerence.

1563 2nd Tome Homelyes sig. Xx.iv^v Seneca muche commendeth Dionisius..for his mery robbinge of such decked, and iewelled puppettes.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 56 At each end [of the tomb] was placed a Puppet or Pagod to protect it.

1685 J. Jackson et al. Annot. Holy Bible II. sig. 4A3/1 They set up Puppets and Idols of their own devising, in the room of the true God.

1745 New Gen. Coll. Voy. & Trav. II. iv. iv. 592/1 At this Place are several Tombs, or little Monuments, with Abundance of Puppets and ridiculous Figures of Imagery.

1800 M. Salmon Sheridan's Pronouncing & Spelling Dict. 405/2 Mawmet, puppet, idol.

1809 S. T. Coleridge Friend 23 Nov. 209 The hollow Puppets of a hollow Age Ever idolatrous, and changing ever Its' worthless Idols.

1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind vi. 111 When man has got some way in developing the religious element in him, he begins to catch the device of setting a puppet or a stone as the symbol and representative of the notions of a higher being.

1987 A. W. Geertz Hopi Indian Altar Iconogr. 24 The deity can be represented by a puppet, handstick, idol, mosaic, screen, shield, tile, mural, or masked impersonator.

†b. A (typically small) figure representing a human being; a child's doll. Cf. poppet n. 2b. Obsolete.In quot. 1840 cf. poppet n. 2a.

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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > doll > [noun]

poppin1440

mammet1461

man of clouts, king of clouts1467

pup-barn?c1475

poppet1483

babe1530

poupe1530

baby1545

puppet1550

baban1570

puppy1659

doll1699

baby doll1725

dolly1790

doll-baby1807

babushka1948

1550 R. Sherry tr. Erasmus Declam. Chyldren in Treat. Schemes & Tropes sig. Ji^v If they be so much disposed to play why do they not rather get apes, and litle puppets to play wythall?

1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 46 The rootes are..made like litle puppettes and mammettes which come to be sold in England in boxes.

1582 Rates Custome House (new ed.) sig. Dviij Puppets or Babies for Children the groce vi.s. viij.d.

1601 J. Wheeler Treat. Commerce 50 The Merchaundise which they then brought into Englande most, were stone pottes, brushes, puppettes, and toyes for children.

1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity ii. ii. xxi Having noted how Lactantius compared the Idols of the Heathen to the little Puppets that little Girls used to play with, and that the said Idols were but great Puppets for old Fools to play with.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 500. ¶3 The Motherly Airs of my little Daughters when they are playing with their Puppets.

1840 R. H. Barham Leech of Folkestone in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 126 ‘Where did you get this pretty doll, as you call it?’ asked Susan, turning over the puppet.

1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. ii. 20 I looked upon it as a sort of doll—a puppet.

a. A model of a person or animal that can be manipulated to mimic natural movement; (originally) a figure with jointed limbs moved from above by strings or wires, a marionette; (subsequently also) a figure supported and moved from below by rods, or a figure made to be fitted over and moved by the hand, finger, etc. Also: any of the characters in a puppet-show. Cf. poppet n. 3.In early use also: a mechanically operated figure.finger, glove, hand, rod, shadow, string puppet: see the first element.

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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > doll > other figures > [noun] > movable by string or wire

puppet1538

marionettea1645

pantine1748

supplejack1776

supple Tam1825

string-jack1863

jumping-jack1883

monkey on a stick1926

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > puppetry > [noun] > puppet

poppin1440

mammet1461

puppet1538

poppet1551

motion1602

puppy1640

neurospast1642

marionettea1645

poupée1785

fantoccini1791

scaramouch1815

shadow figure1851

Judy puppet1897

shadow puppet1923

rod puppet1930

string puppet1937

1538 T. Elyot Dict. Gesticulator, he that playith with puppettes.

1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints 931 Like as a Puppit placed in a play, Whose part once past all men bid take away.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. ii. 235 I could interpret betweene you and your loue If I could see the puppets dallying.

1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV i. ii. 61 They are but as your Automata, those artificial Machines or Images called Puppits.

1712 J. Arbuthnot Law is Bottomless-pit xii. 22 You look like a Puppet mov'd by Clock-work.

1748 London Mag. 271 Paper or pastboard puppets, contriv'd to move in all postures.

1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. vii. 85 The adjustment of the wires and strings by which a puppet is moved.

1874 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch V. xlvi. 342 He..improvised a Punch-and-Judy drama with some private home-made puppets.

1932 W. Faulkner Light in August xvi. 359 She begins to speak again, without moving, almost without lip movement, as if she were a puppet.

1958 Oxf. Mag. 6 Feb. 250/2 The Water Babies is said to be the first full-length play to have been performed in this country by puppets.

2004 Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat & Chron. (Nexis) 27 June 1 c She pulls a 5-foot-tall green furry puppet from her bag.

†b. A person who impersonates another; an actor, esp. an inferior one. Obsolete.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > mime > [noun] > actor in mime

mummera1456

mute1579

puppeta1592

pantomime1606

pantomimic1617

mumchance1694

mime1784

pantomimist1833

a1592 R. Greene Sc. Hist. Iames IV (1598) sig. A3 Bohan. What were those Puppits that hopt and skipt about me yearwhayle [= erewhile]? Oberon. My subiects.

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 33 You bring letters against the King, and take Vanitie the puppets part, against the royaltie of her father.

a1668 W. Davenant Play-house to Let (1673) 1 All the dry old Fools of Bartholomew Fair are come to hire our house,..numberless Jack-puddings: the new motion men of Norwich, Op'ra-Puppets.

1777 W. Combe Diabo-lady 16 Satan..with a sly, Sardonic smile, replied: ‘Your claim, fair Puppets, must be here denied’.

c. figurative. A person, esp. one in a prominent position, whose actions are controlled by some other agency, despite appearing to be his or her own. Also: a country or state which is ostensibly independent but is actually under the control of another power. See also Compounds 1b.

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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > puppet or toy

hackneya1500

toy1573

creature1587

puppet1592

motion1602

baublea1616

plaything1680

dummy1866

society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > [noun] > bringing under control > one who is under control of another

mammetc1390

creature1587

puppet1592

ass1614

the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > person as > mere

stale1580

creature1587

puppet1592

motion1602

property1611

looma1650

tool1663

cat's-foot1675

cat's paw1785

paw1824

dummy1866

stooge1937

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > duping, making a fool of > [noun] > gullible person, dupe > a puppet, tool

poppet1551

puppet1592

property1611

tool1663

cat's-foot1675

cat's paw1785

society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [noun] > territory governed by a ruler or state > puppet

puppet1945

1592 Greenes Groats-worth of Witte To Gentl. Acquaint. sig. F^v Those Puppets..that spake from our mouths, those Anticks garnisht in our colours.

1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 25 To make the people see..that their Plantagenet was indeed but a puppit, or a Counterfeit.

1668 R. Howard Great Favourite iii. i. 29 Thou ill-drest Puppet of Authority.

1768 H. Walpole Hist. Doubts 81 He hoped by keeping the memory of Simnel's imposture, to discredit the true duke of York, as another puppet, when ever he should really appear.

1780 J. B. Burges Heroic Epist. from Serjeant Bradshaw 8 Poor servile Puppets, fit for every use, For treasons, riots, votes, or foul abuse.

1841 R. Browning Pippa Passes Introd., in Bells & Pomegranates No. I 4/1 God's puppets, best and worst, Are we.

1885 R. L. Stevenson & F. Stevenson Squire of Dames in More New Arabian Nights 60 He who began as a puppet, his experience told him, was often doomed to perish as a victim.

1905 E. M. Forster Where Angels fear to Tread v. 148 Her ability frightened him. All his life he had been her puppet.

1945 Evening Standard 20 Dec. 3 The role she [sc. Siam] played as a ‘puppet’ of the Japs in South-East Asia, made it essential that she should give restitution to the people who were harmed.

2002 Yale French Stud. 102 124 Philip II..is portrayed as a vain political puppet.

4. derogatory. A person, esp. a woman, whose (esp. gaudy) dress or manner is thought to suggest a lack of substance or individuality. Cf. poppet n. 1. Now rare.Apparently with overtones of senses 2b and 3a (cf. doll n.¹ 3).

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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > dandy > female

nicebeceturc1520

gallant?1550

nicebice1595

puppet1595

coxcomba1640

gimcrack1706

majac1770

moppet1782

petite maîtresse1790

dandizette1821

dudess1883

1595 A. Day Eng. Secretorie (new ed.) i. 70 If she be faire, then a spectacle to gaze on: if foule, then a simpering puppet [1586 poppet] to woonder on.

1601 A. Dent Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen 50 Is it not a shame that women..should make themselues suche Pictures, Puppets and Peacockes as they doo?

1661 J. Evelyn Tyrannus 11 A Fregat newly rigg'd kept not half such a clatter in a storme, as this Puppets Streamers did when the Wind was in his Shroud's.

1733 A. Pope Impertinent 13 Such painted Puppets, such a varnish'd Race Of hollow Gewgaws, only Dress and Face!

1790 Harris's List Covent-Garden Ladies 88 This painted puppet..; before her acquaintance commenced with this son of Levi she promenaded the common road.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 85 A pretender..to the favour of the scornful puppet [Catharine].

1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. vi. 124 But tell me now, ye curséd puppets, Why do ye stir the porridge so?

1921 P. Moeller Helena's Husband 96 Heaven knows I do not lack the will to rid myself of this painted puppet, but where is the instrument ready to my hand?

5. = poppet n. 1. Now rare.

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the world > people > person > child > [noun]

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childeOE

littleOE

littlingOE

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innocentc1325

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young onec1384

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birdc1405

chickenc1440

enfaunta1475

small boyc1475

whelp1483

burden1490

little one1509

brat?a1513

younkerkin1528

kitling1541

urchin1556

loneling1579

breed1586

budling1587

pledge?1587

ragazzo1591

simplicity1592

bantling1593

tadpole1594

two-year-old1594

bratcheta1600

lambkin1600

younker1601

dandling1611

buda1616

eyas-musketa1616

dovelinga1618

whelplinga1618

puppet1623

butter printa1625

chit1625

piggy1625

ninnyc1626

youngster1633

fairya1635

lap-child1655

chitterling1675

squeaker1676

cherub1680

kid1690

wean1692

kinchin1699

getlingc1700

totum17..

charity-child1723

small girl1734

poult1739

elfin1748

piggy-wiggy1766

piccaninny1774

suck-thumb18..

teeny1802

olive1803

sprout1813

stumpie1820

sexennarian1821

totty1822

toddle1825

toddles1828

poppet1830

brancher1833

toad1836

toddler1837

ankle-biter1840

yarkera1842

twopenny1844

weeny1844

tottykins1849

toddlekins1852

brattock1858

nipper1859

sprat1860

ninepins1862

angelet1868

tenas man1870

tad1877

tacker1885

chavvy1886

joey1887

toddleskin1890

thumb-sucker1891

littlie1893

peewee1894

tyke1894

che-ild1896

kiddo1896

mother's bairn1896

childling1903

kipper1905

pick1905

small1907

God forbid1909

preadolescent1909

subadolescent1914

toto1914

snookums1919

tweenie1919

problem child1920

squirt1924

trottie1924

tiddler1927

subteen1929

perisher1935

poopsie1937

pre-schooler1937

pre-teen1938

pre-teener1940

juvie1941

sprog1944

pikkie1945

subteenager1947

pre-teenager1948

pint-size1954

saucepan lid1960

rug rat1964

smallie1984

bosom-child-

1623 P. Massinger Duke of Millaine ii. i. sig. E Marc. For you Puppet. Mari. What of me? Pine-tree. Marc. Little you are, I grant, And haue as little worth, but much lesse wit.

1663 W. Clark Marciano ii. ii. 18 I knew them all since they were puppets.

1759 tr. Horace Satires ii. iii, in W. Duncombe et al. tr. Horace Wks. II. 209 My Dear! my Child! my Puppet! and my Darling!

1767 H. Smith Lett. to Married Women sig. K3 I am just now returned from a nursery, where..I beheld a happy mother with a pretty little puppet at her breast.

1869 A. B. Haven Home Stories 266 Your father's relations have discovered that you are a pretty enough little puppet to display in their drawing-room.

2001 Tallahassee (Florida) Democrat (Nexis) 11 Nov. d1 I'd love to, my little puppet, but I've got to go to work right now.

†6. = poppet n. 6. Obsolete. rare.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > case or container > [noun] > for small objects or instruments

etui1611

tweeze1622

puppeta1625

tweezer1654

tweezer-case1686

twee1690

bubble-boy1727

nécessaire1800

poppeta1903

caddy1976

a1625 J. Fletcher Wit without Money (1639) ii. sig. C3^v A maide makes conscience of halfe a crowne a weeke for pinnes and puppits.

†7. Entomology. A pupa. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [noun] > young or development of young > pupa or chrysalis

nymph1577

nympha1601

aurelia1608

chrysalis1658

puppet1671

pricket1707

pupa1770

chrysalid1777

pupe1819

naiad1918

1671 Acct. of Swammerdam's Historia Generalis Insectorum (1669) in Philos. Trans. 1670 (Royal Soc.) 5 2079 The manner, how the Worms and Caterpillars turn into Puppets [Du. De maner op welke de Wurmen ende de Rupsen in Popkens veranderen (Swammerdam, p. 24)].

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) Puppets..the name given by Swammerdam to the nymphæ of animals, which he distinguishes from the chrysalises by this simple name, calling these the gilt puppets, from their golden colour.

8. Either of the upright stocks of a lathe; = poppet n. 4b. Now chiefly historical.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > lathe > [noun] > lathe-head

poppet-head1665

puppet1680

puppet head1725

poppet1791

lathe-head1889

1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. xii. 207 Then set your Puppets, and wedge them tight up.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. viii. 356/2 The Puppets, are the square peeces of wood..which have the..Iron Pinns in, upon which the work is turned.

1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 208 Upon a strong table of wood..are fixed three cast-iron puppets or uprights.

1852 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) I. 132/1 To make this [sc. a square black-lead pencil] round, it is passed through a hole in an iron or steel puppet.

1933 Folk-lore 44 182 The wood to be turned [on a pole-lathe] is placed between the two puppets upon iron pegs projecting from the puppets.

1964 H. Hodges Artifacts viii. 117 The mandrels were free to rotate in two bearings, the stocks or poppets (puppets).

†9. Nautical. = poppet n. 5. Obsolete.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > slip on which ships built or repaired > framework on which vessel rests > timbers supporting ship when launching

ways1581

bilge-ways1769

dogshore1780

driver1781

slice1791

puppet1792

stopping up1805

dog1831

dagger1838

bulge-ways1850

poppet1850

trigger1867

1792 Jrnl. House of Commons 47 362/2 A Plank secured to the Bottom at both Ends of the Bulgeways, to prevent the Heads of the Puppets from flying out.

1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 8 Screws, bed or barrel, for raising the heads of large masts..,are made of elm, and consist of two puppets, a bed, and a sole: the puppets are four feet nine inches long, have their lower parts round..,and are cut with a screw; their..head, is larger, and is either eight-square or round.

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive and objective (chiefly in sense 3a).

puppet body n.

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1898 G. Meredith Odes French Hist. 62 What silly puppet-bodies danced on strings.

2001 Jrnl. Amer. Inst. Conservation 40 7/1 Different parts of the puppet body are made from different sections of the hide..the skin from the belly of the donkey is employed for faces and upper body parts.

puppet drama n.

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1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iii. ii. §19 The subjects of the puppet-dramas were formerly taken from some well-known and popular stories.

1940 ELH 7 308 The puppet drama should be extremely simple in plot, and it should never attempt to carry an intellectual or a moral message.

2006 Jrnl. Japanese Trade & Industry (Nexis) 1 Jan. Shochiku..presented not only kabuki plays but contemporary comedies and Bunraku puppet dramas as well.

puppet fight n.

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1684 T. Creech tr. Horace Epist. ii. i, in tr. Horace Odes, Satyrs, & Epist. (new ed.) 534 Or leave the Stage to see a Puppet-fight; Or to the Bears, for that's the Crowds delight.

1882 T. P. Johnston Patrick Hamilton 29 Why, 'tis a puppet-fight, Always the same puppet knocked upon the head.

1983 Asian Folklore Stud. 42 212 A fight in the audience will take attention away from the most perfectly crafted puppet fight cast upon the screen.

2005 Sarasota (Florida) Herald-Tribune (Nexis) 19 June bv4 Building block castles and puppet fights aren't your typical hush-hush kind of library activities.

puppetland n.

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1827 Blackwood's Mag. 265 The dolls threw stones behind them, and other dolls forthwith arose to people puppetland.

1939 Musical Times 80 708/2 The piano-conductor part of ‘Springtime in Puppetland’..holds out prospects of a pleasant experience in the realm of light music.

1997 Sante Fe New Mexican (Nexis) 25 Apr. 48 Mother Puppet wears a medal with a big heart across her chest, and Father Puppet has materials popping out of his head..(apparently there is no divorce in puppetland).

puppet-maker n.

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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Poupetier, a babe-maker, or puppet-maker.

1740 tr. A. Banier Mythol. & Fables Ancients III. v. viii. 205 Whatever Veneration was paid to the Grand-Nephew of Cæsar, this Deification did not fail to provoke some to rally him; some called him the Puppet-maker.

1860 C. R. Kennedy tr. Demosthenes Olynthiac & Other Public Orations I. 67 Like puppet-makers, you elect your infantry and cavalry officers for the market-place, not for war.

1988 S. Bhatt Brunizem 59 The puppets on every window-sill, every shelf in the puppet-maker's house are waiting.

2006 Guardian (Nexis) 15 Feb. 12 All twinkling eyes and gentleness, Bruna is rather like the kindly old puppet-maker Gepetto in Pinocchio.

† puppet-mover n. Obsolete

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1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. xii. vi. 231 The landlady..fell foul on both her Husband and the poor Puppet-mover .

1845 Penny Mag. 14 108/1 Much ingenuity was displayed by the ventriloquist and puppet-mover inside the curtains.

† puppet-prompter n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1781 W. Cowper Retirem. 312 With limbs of British oak and nerves of wire, And wit that puppet-prompters might inspire.

puppet stage n.

ΚΠ

1594 T. Nashe Terrors of Night in Wks. (Grosart) III. 236 Comes some superfluous humour of ours..and erects a puppet-stage, or some such ridiculous idle childish inuention.

1710 Coll. Poems for & against Dr. Sacheverell 33 So represented, have I seen On Puppet-Stage, a mimick King.

1883 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 537/2 Every one is familiar with the modern hero of the puppet stage, who..slays poor faithful Judy.

2006 Birmingham News (Alabama) (Nexis) 29 Apr. d6 Lynn Coker placed a hand-made puppet stage..in front of the fireplace..then embellished the stage with jester dolls.

puppet string n.

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1842 E. Miall in Nonconf. II. 857 [The human understanding] is destined to higher ends than to be a sort of puppet-string in the hands of state ecclesiastics.

1923 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 34 23 They would choose the leaders of their movements who now pull the puppet strings.

2006 Sunbury/Macedon Ranges Leader (Austral.) (Nexis) 2 May 405 Pulling the puppet strings can be a thankless job..says a 30-year puppetry veteran.

puppet teacher n.

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1602 T. Dekker Satiro-mastix sig. I3 Hold, silence, the puppet-teacher speakes.

2001 Asian Theatre Jrnl. 18 59 When I first met..my puppet teacher..I was not prepared for the education I was to encounter. I had come..for a ten-month study of the traditional wooden puppetry called gombeyata.

puppet theatre n.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > puppetry > [noun] > puppet-theatre

droll-house1705

puppet theatre1726

1726 E. Philips Country Gentleman 4 Apr. 1/1 Punch himself has refus'd to act, unless I am kept out of the Puppet-Theatre.

1896 Atlantic Monthly June 756/2 He..devoted the greater part of his time to carving and painting figures for the puppet theatre.

1991 New Yorker 25 Nov. 26/3 Everything about this puppet theatre serves the sophisticated audience.

puppet work n.

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1618 Bp. T. Morton Def. Innocencie Three Ceremonies xviii. 167 They frame new Religions, which..they (as little children vse to do with the Puppet-works of their owne hands) cast, and breake downe the next day following.

1792 G. Colman Surrender of Calais ii. 36 Blind obedience to the stern will of power,..differs as wide from true impulsive loyalty, as puppet work from nature.

1859 F. W. Robertson Lect. & Addr. on Literary & Social Topics 150 If you compare Shakespeare's Ariel or Puck..with these automatons, you will feel the difference between a living creation and cleverly moved puppet work.

2003 Irish Tatler Aug. 12/1 Look at an exhibition of Edward Carey's puppet work and then zone out to a series on Australian film.

b. Appositive (chiefly in senses 3a and 3c), as puppet government, puppet king, puppet ruler, puppet state, etc.

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1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xxiv. 853/2 To salute this puppet King, and to welcome these papals.

a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 196 He is but a Puppet Saint, that moves he knows not how.

1715 N. Rowe Lady Jane Gray iv. i Their puppet queen reigns here.

1774 R. Lloyd Poet. Wks. II. 127 Can you bow down with reverent awe Before this puppet king of straw?

1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. xxiii. 286 She very much reminds us of those puppet-heroines, for whom the showman contrives to dialogue without any skill in ventriloquism.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiii. 299 Scotland would have been a smaller Poland, with a puppet sovereign, a turbulent diet, and an enslaved people.

1935 (title) The puppet state of ‘Manchukuo’.

1971 Standard (Dar es Salaam) 7 Apr. 1/1 Those present [at the conference] were undecided about the relative merits of the Sihanouk Government and the American puppet regime.

1992 Daily Mirror TV Weekly 3 Oct. 5/2 If you want noise, dazzle, big furry puppet dogs who fight the cameras..ask your minder to wake you at 7am.

C2.

puppet man n. = puppet master n.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > puppetry > [noun] > puppeteer

puppet player1601

puppet man1620

motion-man1631

puppet master1631

poppet-playera1656

poppet-shower1715

puppet-showman1715

puppeteer1915

marionettist1918

1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes 2nd Pt. Don Quixote xxvii. 179 Couering his left eye, to apply himselfe to the office of a Puppet man [Sp. titerero]; for this and iuggling hee was excellent at.

1734 J. Swift Strephon & Cloe in Beautiful Young Nymph 23 From yonder Puppet-Man inquire, Who wisely hides his Wood and Wire.

1827 E. Brown Trial of Cain 15 Now by this puppet man, we here may see A striking emblem of the Deity; Who sits behind the curtain of the skies, And manages the play so nice and wise.

1909 Chatterbox 286/2 I saw the old lame puppet-man sitting on the edge of the wild, unenclosed, gorse-covered common-land.

2005 Daily Star (Nexis) 24 Oct. 20 The guy who takes the job will now be just another stooge for the puppet man to play with in his spare time.

puppet master n. a manager of a puppet show; a puppeteer; also figurative.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > puppetry > [noun] > puppeteer

puppet player1601

puppet man1620

motion-man1631

puppet master1631

poppet-playera1656

poppet-shower1715

puppet-showman1715

puppeteer1915

marionettist1918

the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > person as > mere > one who uses

user1931

puppet master1965

1631 B. Jonson New Inne v. v. 96 Fidlers, Rushers, Puppet-masters, Iuglers.

1769 J. Wilkes North Briton lxxii. 432 These mongrel characters..see a necessity of putting on a Whig countenance..though they wear it awkardly..while in the more immediate service of the Puppet-Master.

1891 O. Wilde Critic as Artist in Intentions 157 Life cheats us with shadows, like a puppet-master.

1965 M. Allingham Mind Readers ix. 97 Much more worrying was the question of the mind behind their experiments... Who was the puppet master?

1996 Times 20 May 8/3 In characteristic fashion it contained a cartoon of Mr Sen as a puppet-master, pulling the strings of Prince Ranariddh.

puppet valve n. now rare = poppet valve n.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > control(s) > [noun] > valve > disk

puppet-clack1744

puppet valve1783

poppet1864

1783 Encycl. Brit. X. 8277/1 The steam-clack, or puppet-valve..is a brass valve on the top of a pipe opening into the boiler, to let off the steam when it is too strong.

1835 Amer. Railroad Jrnl. 25 Apr. 245/3 Let the valve be..of the kind called puppet valves.

1887 D. A. Low Introd. Machine Drawing (1892) 108 Sketches showing the construction of a conical metal lift or puppet valve and seating.

1911 Times 23 June 5/1 (advt.) After having used and experimented with several different makes of cars equipped with the old system of puppet valve engines.., I purchased two Daimler cars.

Derivatives

ˈpuppetdom n. the state or condition of being a puppet; puppets collectively.

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1851 S. Judd Margaret (rev. ed.) II. ii. vi. 82 Thy health we drink, thy name we praise, Great King of Puppetdom! defender by the grace of God of England, France and America.

1976 C. R. Stecyk Frontier Tales in Dogtown (2000) 34 It's time for the finals as Buffalo Bob..exchanges witticisms with Howdy Doody, the Will Rogers of puppetdom.

2005 Sunday Times (Nexis) 6 Feb. 20 The reduction of Iraq to puppetdom will stand in history as an act of shameless bullying.

ˈpuppethood n. the state or condition of being a puppet.

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1885 Sat. Rev. 19 Sept. 369/2 The dethronement or reduction to puppethood of native dynasties.

1981 Mind 90 405 The thought that puppets are blameworthy for not recognizing their puppethood..is at worst incoherent and at best simply false.

2005 Village Voice (Nexis) 29 Nov. 82 Bigonzetti makes perfunctory references to puppethood. Once, the down-and-out hero slumps over and dangles his forearms like an abandoned marionette.

† puppetical adj. Obsolete rare relating to a puppet.

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1755 J. Kidgell Card II. iv. xi. 56 My Punch (to use a puppetical Expression) was a good, bad and indifferent sort of a Partner.

ˈpuppetism n. the state or condition of being a puppet; (also) puppetry.

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1801 Ld. Campbell Let. 22 Apr. in Life (1881) I. iii. 69 The intimacy between him [sc. Addington] and Pitt continues as great as ever, and no doubt of his puppetism any longer remains.

1924 Fayetteville (Arkansas) Daily Democrat 8 Mar. 3/1 The Shadowgraph..is Mr. Sarg's newest devise for showing his famous dolls in action, and is a form of animated silhouette, based on ancient Chinese puppetism.

1988 G. Shellenbarger in R. Feldman & M. Betzold End of Line ii. 60 A salaried person is subjected to puppetism. You have instructions that come down from upper-echelon management, and you don't question them.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	puppet
释义	puppetn. Brit. /ˈpʌpɪt/, U.S. /ˈpəpət/ Forms: 1500s pupette, 1500s puppitte, 1500s puppyt, 1500s–1600s puppette, 1500s–1700s puppit, 1500s– puppet, 1600s pupet. Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: poppet n. Etymology: Variant of poppet n.; now the usual form in sense 3. With sense 1, which is not paralleled at poppet n., compare puppy n. and discussion at that entry.In sense 7 after Dutch †popken (1669 in an apparently isolated attestation in the source reviewed in quot. 1671); compare pupa n. and the Germanic parallels cited at that entry. I. A puppy. †1. A small dog; a puppy. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > pet puppy1486 messana1500 puppet?1531 minx1542 pupprelle1583 lapdoga1684 fan-fan1834 snookums1919 the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > puppy whelpc950 pup1542 puppy1567 pupsie?1576 puppy doga1616 whelplinga1618 puppet1652 dogling1830 ?1531 R. Barnes Supplic. Kinge Henrye VIII f. lxxx As a puppet which springeth vp & doune & cryythe pepe pepe and gothe his waye. 1579 T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things ii. 47 Being ignoraunt that his..Dogge was infect with madnesse: he himselfe within fowre monthes after, became mad... Which let them marke & consider that haue such pleasure in lytle Puppyts. 1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders 147 The great curres..the litle puppets. 1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 336 She replied, Persa was dead, meaning her whelp or Puppet. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. ix. 183/2 Whelpes, or Puppits, are..whelped blind. II. An image of a human being or a person or thing resembling one. 2. a. depreciative. An idolatrous image, an idol; any material object that is worshipped. Cf. poppet n. 2c. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > idol godeOE anlikenessOE stockc1000 mammetc1225 Mahometc1275 Mahoundc1275 idola1325 simulacre1382 marmoseta1398 mammetrya1400 puppet1534 poppet?1548 block1570 Dagona1572 pagoda1582 pagody1588 Mokisso1634 poppet deitya1641 pageant idol1696 pageant thing1696 afgod1769 cult figure1895 1534 T. Swinnerton in tr. Mustre of Scismatyke Bysshopes Prol. sig. E.j As who sholde saye, that no man sauynge the puppet of Rome durst purely and syncerely preche, teche, and wryte the holy worde of god. 1536 R. Morison Lamentation Seditious Rebellyon sig. Bii^v Theyr pope, their puppet, their idole, their romayn god wyll not out of their hartis. 1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. x. 215 Thei [sc. the Tartars] make theim selues litle pupettes of silke or of felte,..and do them muche reuerence. 1563 2nd Tome Homelyes sig. Xx.iv^v Seneca muche commendeth Dionisius..for his mery robbinge of such decked, and iewelled puppettes. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 56 At each end [of the tomb] was placed a Puppet or Pagod to protect it. 1685 J. Jackson et al. Annot. Holy Bible II. sig. 4A3/1 They set up Puppets and Idols of their own devising, in the room of the true God. 1745 New Gen. Coll. Voy. & Trav. II. iv. iv. 592/1 At this Place are several Tombs, or little Monuments, with Abundance of Puppets and ridiculous Figures of Imagery. 1800 M. Salmon Sheridan's Pronouncing & Spelling Dict. 405/2 Mawmet, puppet, idol. 1809 S. T. Coleridge Friend 23 Nov. 209 The hollow Puppets of a hollow Age Ever idolatrous, and changing ever Its' worthless Idols. 1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind vi. 111 When man has got some way in developing the religious element in him, he begins to catch the device of setting a puppet or a stone as the symbol and representative of the notions of a higher being. 1987 A. W. Geertz Hopi Indian Altar Iconogr. 24 The deity can be represented by a puppet, handstick, idol, mosaic, screen, shield, tile, mural, or masked impersonator. †b. A (typically small) figure representing a human being; a child's doll. Cf. poppet n. 2b. Obsolete.In quot. 1840 cf. poppet n. 2a. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > doll > [noun] poppin1440 mammet1461 man of clouts, king of clouts1467 pup-barn?c1475 poppet1483 babe1530 poupe1530 baby1545 puppet1550 baban1570 puppy1659 doll1699 baby doll1725 dolly1790 doll-baby1807 babushka1948 1550 R. Sherry tr. Erasmus Declam. Chyldren in Treat. Schemes & Tropes sig. Ji^v If they be so much disposed to play why do they not rather get apes, and litle puppets to play wythall? 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 46 The rootes are..made like litle puppettes and mammettes which come to be sold in England in boxes. 1582 Rates Custome House (new ed.) sig. Dviij Puppets or Babies for Children the groce vi.s. viij.d. 1601 J. Wheeler Treat. Commerce 50 The Merchaundise which they then brought into Englande most, were stone pottes, brushes, puppettes, and toyes for children. 1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity ii. ii. xxi Having noted how Lactantius compared the Idols of the Heathen to the little Puppets that little Girls used to play with, and that the said Idols were but great Puppets for old Fools to play with. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 500. ¶3 The Motherly Airs of my little Daughters when they are playing with their Puppets. 1840 R. H. Barham Leech of Folkestone in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 126 ‘Where did you get this pretty doll, as you call it?’ asked Susan, turning over the puppet. 1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. ii. 20 I looked upon it as a sort of doll—a puppet. 3. a. A model of a person or animal that can be manipulated to mimic natural movement; (originally) a figure with jointed limbs moved from above by strings or wires, a marionette; (subsequently also) a figure supported and moved from below by rods, or a figure made to be fitted over and moved by the hand, finger, etc. Also: any of the characters in a puppet-show. Cf. poppet n. 3.In early use also: a mechanically operated figure.finger, glove, hand, rod, shadow, string puppet: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > doll > other figures > [noun] > movable by string or wire puppet1538 marionettea1645 pantine1748 supplejack1776 supple Tam1825 string-jack1863 jumping-jack1883 monkey on a stick1926 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > puppetry > [noun] > puppet poppin1440 mammet1461 puppet1538 poppet1551 motion1602 puppy1640 neurospast1642 marionettea1645 poupée1785 fantoccini1791 scaramouch1815 shadow figure1851 Judy puppet1897 shadow puppet1923 rod puppet1930 string puppet1937 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Gesticulator, he that playith with puppettes. 1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints 931 Like as a Puppit placed in a play, Whose part once past all men bid take away. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. ii. 235 I could interpret betweene you and your loue If I could see the puppets dallying. View more context for this quotation 1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV i. ii. 61 They are but as your Automata, those artificial Machines or Images called Puppits. 1712 J. Arbuthnot Law is Bottomless-pit xii. 22 You look like a Puppet mov'd by Clock-work. 1748 London Mag. 271 Paper or pastboard puppets, contriv'd to move in all postures. 1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. vii. 85 The adjustment of the wires and strings by which a puppet is moved. 1874 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch V. xlvi. 342 He..improvised a Punch-and-Judy drama with some private home-made puppets. 1932 W. Faulkner Light in August xvi. 359 She begins to speak again, without moving, almost without lip movement, as if she were a puppet. 1958 Oxf. Mag. 6 Feb. 250/2 The Water Babies is said to be the first full-length play to have been performed in this country by puppets. 2004 Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat & Chron. (Nexis) 27 June 1 c She pulls a 5-foot-tall green furry puppet from her bag. †b. A person who impersonates another; an actor, esp. an inferior one. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > mime > [noun] > actor in mime mummera1456 mute1579 puppeta1592 pantomime1606 pantomimic1617 mumchance1694 mime1784 pantomimist1833 a1592 R. Greene Sc. Hist. Iames IV (1598) sig. A3 Bohan. What were those Puppits that hopt and skipt about me yearwhayle [= erewhile]? Oberon. My subiects. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 33 You bring letters against the King, and take Vanitie the puppets part, against the royaltie of her father. View more context for this quotation a1668 W. Davenant Play-house to Let (1673) 1 All the dry old Fools of Bartholomew Fair are come to hire our house,..numberless Jack-puddings: the new motion men of Norwich, Op'ra-Puppets. 1777 W. Combe Diabo-lady 16 Satan..with a sly, Sardonic smile, replied: ‘Your claim, fair Puppets, must be here denied’. c. figurative. A person, esp. one in a prominent position, whose actions are controlled by some other agency, despite appearing to be his or her own. Also: a country or state which is ostensibly independent but is actually under the control of another power. See also Compounds 1b. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > puppet or toy hackneya1500 toy1573 creature1587 puppet1592 motion1602 baublea1616 plaything1680 dummy1866 society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > [noun] > bringing under control > one who is under control of another mammetc1390 creature1587 puppet1592 ass1614 the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > person as > mere stale1580 creature1587 puppet1592 motion1602 property1611 looma1650 tool1663 cat's-foot1675 cat's paw1785 paw1824 dummy1866 stooge1937 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > duping, making a fool of > [noun] > gullible person, dupe > a puppet, tool poppet1551 puppet1592 property1611 tool1663 cat's-foot1675 cat's paw1785 society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [noun] > territory governed by a ruler or state > puppet puppet1945 1592 Greenes Groats-worth of Witte To Gentl. Acquaint. sig. F^v Those Puppets..that spake from our mouths, those Anticks garnisht in our colours. 1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 25 To make the people see..that their Plantagenet was indeed but a puppit, or a Counterfeit. 1668 R. Howard Great Favourite iii. i. 29 Thou ill-drest Puppet of Authority. 1768 H. Walpole Hist. Doubts 81 He hoped by keeping the memory of Simnel's imposture, to discredit the true duke of York, as another puppet, when ever he should really appear. 1780 J. B. Burges Heroic Epist. from Serjeant Bradshaw 8 Poor servile Puppets, fit for every use, For treasons, riots, votes, or foul abuse. 1841 R. Browning Pippa Passes Introd., in Bells & Pomegranates No. I 4/1 God's puppets, best and worst, Are we. 1885 R. L. Stevenson & F. Stevenson Squire of Dames in More New Arabian Nights 60 He who began as a puppet, his experience told him, was often doomed to perish as a victim. 1905 E. M. Forster Where Angels fear to Tread v. 148 Her ability frightened him. All his life he had been her puppet. 1945 Evening Standard 20 Dec. 3 The role she [sc. Siam] played as a ‘puppet’ of the Japs in South-East Asia, made it essential that she should give restitution to the people who were harmed. 2002 Yale French Stud. 102 124 Philip II..is portrayed as a vain political puppet. 4. derogatory. A person, esp. a woman, whose (esp. gaudy) dress or manner is thought to suggest a lack of substance or individuality. Cf. poppet n. 1. Now rare.Apparently with overtones of senses 2b and 3a (cf. doll n.¹ 3). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > dandy > female nicebeceturc1520 gallant?1550 nicebice1595 puppet1595 coxcomba1640 gimcrack1706 majac1770 moppet1782 petite maîtresse1790 dandizette1821 dudess1883 1595 A. Day Eng. Secretorie (new ed.) i. 70 If she be faire, then a spectacle to gaze on: if foule, then a simpering puppet [1586 poppet] to woonder on. 1601 A. Dent Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen 50 Is it not a shame that women..should make themselues suche Pictures, Puppets and Peacockes as they doo? 1661 J. Evelyn Tyrannus 11 A Fregat newly rigg'd kept not half such a clatter in a storme, as this Puppets Streamers did when the Wind was in his Shroud's. 1733 A. Pope Impertinent 13 Such painted Puppets, such a varnish'd Race Of hollow Gewgaws, only Dress and Face! 1790 Harris's List Covent-Garden Ladies 88 This painted puppet..; before her acquaintance commenced with this son of Levi she promenaded the common road. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 85 A pretender..to the favour of the scornful puppet [Catharine]. 1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. vi. 124 But tell me now, ye curséd puppets, Why do ye stir the porridge so? 1921 P. Moeller Helena's Husband 96 Heaven knows I do not lack the will to rid myself of this painted puppet, but where is the instrument ready to my hand? 5. = poppet n. 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > [noun] wenchelc890 childeOE littleOE littlingOE hired-childc1275 smalla1300 brolla1325 innocentc1325 chickc1330 congeonc1330 impc1380 faunt1382 young onec1384 scionc1390 weea1400 birdc1405 chickenc1440 enfaunta1475 small boyc1475 whelp1483 burden1490 little one1509 brat?a1513 younkerkin1528 kitling1541 urchin1556 loneling1579 breed1586 budling1587 pledge?1587 ragazzo1591 simplicity1592 bantling1593 tadpole1594 two-year-old1594 bratcheta1600 lambkin1600 younker1601 dandling1611 buda1616 eyas-musketa1616 dovelinga1618 whelplinga1618 puppet1623 butter printa1625 chit1625 piggy1625 ninnyc1626 youngster1633 fairya1635 lap-child1655 chitterling1675 squeaker1676 cherub1680 kid1690 wean1692 kinchin1699 getlingc1700 totum17.. charity-child1723 small girl1734 poult1739 elfin1748 piggy-wiggy1766 piccaninny1774 suck-thumb18.. teeny1802 olive1803 sprout1813 stumpie1820 sexennarian1821 totty1822 toddle1825 toddles1828 poppet1830 brancher1833 toad1836 toddler1837 ankle-biter1840 yarkera1842 twopenny1844 weeny1844 tottykins1849 toddlekins1852 brattock1858 nipper1859 sprat1860 ninepins1862 angelet1868 tenas man1870 tad1877 tacker1885 chavvy1886 joey1887 toddleskin1890 thumb-sucker1891 littlie1893 peewee1894 tyke1894 che-ild1896 kiddo1896 mother's bairn1896 childling1903 kipper1905 pick1905 small1907 God forbid1909 preadolescent1909 subadolescent1914 toto1914 snookums1919 tweenie1919 problem child1920 squirt1924 trottie1924 tiddler1927 subteen1929 perisher1935 poopsie1937 pre-schooler1937 pre-teen1938 pre-teener1940 juvie1941 sprog1944 pikkie1945 subteenager1947 pre-teenager1948 pint-size1954 saucepan lid1960 rug rat1964 smallie1984 bosom-child- 1623 P. Massinger Duke of Millaine ii. i. sig. E Marc. For you Puppet. Mari. What of me? Pine-tree. Marc. Little you are, I grant, And haue as little worth, but much lesse wit. 1663 W. Clark Marciano ii. ii. 18 I knew them all since they were puppets. 1759 tr. Horace Satires ii. iii, in W. Duncombe et al. tr. Horace Wks. II. 209 My Dear! my Child! my Puppet! and my Darling! 1767 H. Smith Lett. to Married Women sig. K3 I am just now returned from a nursery, where..I beheld a happy mother with a pretty little puppet at her breast. 1869 A. B. Haven Home Stories 266 Your father's relations have discovered that you are a pretty enough little puppet to display in their drawing-room. 2001 Tallahassee (Florida) Democrat (Nexis) 11 Nov. d1 I'd love to, my little puppet, but I've got to go to work right now. †6. = poppet n. 6. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > case or container > [noun] > for small objects or instruments etui1611 tweeze1622 puppeta1625 tweezer1654 tweezer-case1686 twee1690 bubble-boy1727 nécessaire1800 poppeta1903 caddy1976 a1625 J. Fletcher Wit without Money (1639) ii. sig. C3^v A maide makes conscience of halfe a crowne a weeke for pinnes and puppits. †7. Entomology. A pupa. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [noun] > young or development of young > pupa or chrysalis nymph1577 nympha1601 aurelia1608 chrysalis1658 puppet1671 pricket1707 pupa1770 chrysalid1777 pupe1819 naiad1918 1671 Acct. of Swammerdam's Historia Generalis Insectorum (1669) in Philos. Trans. 1670 (Royal Soc.) 5 2079 The manner, how the Worms and Caterpillars turn into Puppets [Du. De maner op welke de Wurmen ende de Rupsen in Popkens veranderen (Swammerdam, p. 24)]. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) Puppets..the name given by Swammerdam to the nymphæ of animals, which he distinguishes from the chrysalises by this simple name, calling these the gilt puppets, from their golden colour. 8. Either of the upright stocks of a lathe; = poppet n. 4b. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > lathe > [noun] > lathe-head poppet-head1665 puppet1680 puppet head1725 poppet1791 lathe-head1889 1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. xii. 207 Then set your Puppets, and wedge them tight up. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. viii. 356/2 The Puppets, are the square peeces of wood..which have the..Iron Pinns in, upon which the work is turned. 1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 208 Upon a strong table of wood..are fixed three cast-iron puppets or uprights. 1852 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) I. 132/1 To make this [sc. a square black-lead pencil] round, it is passed through a hole in an iron or steel puppet. 1933 Folk-lore 44 182 The wood to be turned [on a pole-lathe] is placed between the two puppets upon iron pegs projecting from the puppets. 1964 H. Hodges Artifacts viii. 117 The mandrels were free to rotate in two bearings, the stocks or poppets (puppets). †9. Nautical. = poppet n. 5. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > slip on which ships built or repaired > framework on which vessel rests > timbers supporting ship when launching ways1581 bilge-ways1769 dogshore1780 driver1781 slice1791 puppet1792 stopping up1805 dog1831 dagger1838 bulge-ways1850 poppet1850 trigger1867 1792 Jrnl. House of Commons 47 362/2 A Plank secured to the Bottom at both Ends of the Bulgeways, to prevent the Heads of the Puppets from flying out. 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 8 Screws, bed or barrel, for raising the heads of large masts..,are made of elm, and consist of two puppets, a bed, and a sole: the puppets are four feet nine inches long, have their lower parts round..,and are cut with a screw; their..head, is larger, and is either eight-square or round. Compounds C1. a. General attributive and objective (chiefly in sense 3a). puppet body n. ΚΠ 1898 G. Meredith Odes French Hist. 62 What silly puppet-bodies danced on strings. 2001 Jrnl. Amer. Inst. Conservation 40 7/1 Different parts of the puppet body are made from different sections of the hide..the skin from the belly of the donkey is employed for faces and upper body parts. puppet drama n. ΚΠ 1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iii. ii. §19 The subjects of the puppet-dramas were formerly taken from some well-known and popular stories. 1940 ELH 7 308 The puppet drama should be extremely simple in plot, and it should never attempt to carry an intellectual or a moral message. 2006 Jrnl. Japanese Trade & Industry (Nexis) 1 Jan. Shochiku..presented not only kabuki plays but contemporary comedies and Bunraku puppet dramas as well. puppet fight n. ΚΠ 1684 T. Creech tr. Horace Epist. ii. i, in tr. Horace Odes, Satyrs, & Epist. (new ed.) 534 Or leave the Stage to see a Puppet-fight; Or to the Bears, for that's the Crowds delight. 1882 T. P. Johnston Patrick Hamilton 29 Why, 'tis a puppet-fight, Always the same puppet knocked upon the head. 1983 Asian Folklore Stud. 42 212 A fight in the audience will take attention away from the most perfectly crafted puppet fight cast upon the screen. 2005 Sarasota (Florida) Herald-Tribune (Nexis) 19 June bv4 Building block castles and puppet fights aren't your typical hush-hush kind of library activities. puppetland n. ΚΠ 1827 Blackwood's Mag. 265 The dolls threw stones behind them, and other dolls forthwith arose to people puppetland. 1939 Musical Times 80 708/2 The piano-conductor part of ‘Springtime in Puppetland’..holds out prospects of a pleasant experience in the realm of light music. 1997 Sante Fe New Mexican (Nexis) 25 Apr. 48 Mother Puppet wears a medal with a big heart across her chest, and Father Puppet has materials popping out of his head..(apparently there is no divorce in puppetland). puppet-maker n. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Poupetier, a babe-maker, or puppet-maker. 1740 tr. A. Banier Mythol. & Fables Ancients III. v. viii. 205 Whatever Veneration was paid to the Grand-Nephew of Cæsar, this Deification did not fail to provoke some to rally him; some called him the Puppet-maker. 1860 C. R. Kennedy tr. Demosthenes Olynthiac & Other Public Orations I. 67 Like puppet-makers, you elect your infantry and cavalry officers for the market-place, not for war. 1988 S. Bhatt Brunizem 59 The puppets on every window-sill, every shelf in the puppet-maker's house are waiting. 2006 Guardian (Nexis) 15 Feb. 12 All twinkling eyes and gentleness, Bruna is rather like the kindly old puppet-maker Gepetto in Pinocchio. † puppet-mover n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. xii. vi. 231 The landlady..fell foul on both her Husband and the poor Puppet-mover . View more context for this quotation 1845 Penny Mag. 14 108/1 Much ingenuity was displayed by the ventriloquist and puppet-mover inside the curtains. † puppet-prompter n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1781 W. Cowper Retirem. 312 With limbs of British oak and nerves of wire, And wit that puppet-prompters might inspire. puppet stage n. ΚΠ 1594 T. Nashe Terrors of Night in Wks. (Grosart) III. 236 Comes some superfluous humour of ours..and erects a puppet-stage, or some such ridiculous idle childish inuention. 1710 Coll. Poems for & against Dr. Sacheverell 33 So represented, have I seen On Puppet-Stage, a mimick King. 1883 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 537/2 Every one is familiar with the modern hero of the puppet stage, who..slays poor faithful Judy. 2006 Birmingham News (Alabama) (Nexis) 29 Apr. d6 Lynn Coker placed a hand-made puppet stage..in front of the fireplace..then embellished the stage with jester dolls. puppet string n. ΚΠ 1842 E. Miall in Nonconf. II. 857 [The human understanding] is destined to higher ends than to be a sort of puppet-string in the hands of state ecclesiastics. 1923 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 34 23 They would choose the leaders of their movements who now pull the puppet strings. 2006 Sunbury/Macedon Ranges Leader (Austral.) (Nexis) 2 May 405 Pulling the puppet strings can be a thankless job..says a 30-year puppetry veteran. puppet teacher n. ΚΠ 1602 T. Dekker Satiro-mastix sig. I3 Hold, silence, the puppet-teacher speakes. 2001 Asian Theatre Jrnl. 18 59 When I first met..my puppet teacher..I was not prepared for the education I was to encounter. I had come..for a ten-month study of the traditional wooden puppetry called gombeyata. puppet theatre n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > puppetry > [noun] > puppet-theatre droll-house1705 puppet theatre1726 1726 E. Philips Country Gentleman 4 Apr. 1/1 Punch himself has refus'd to act, unless I am kept out of the Puppet-Theatre. 1896 Atlantic Monthly June 756/2 He..devoted the greater part of his time to carving and painting figures for the puppet theatre. 1991 New Yorker 25 Nov. 26/3 Everything about this puppet theatre serves the sophisticated audience. puppet work n. ΚΠ 1618 Bp. T. Morton Def. Innocencie Three Ceremonies xviii. 167 They frame new Religions, which..they (as little children vse to do with the Puppet-works of their owne hands) cast, and breake downe the next day following. 1792 G. Colman Surrender of Calais ii. 36 Blind obedience to the stern will of power,..differs as wide from true impulsive loyalty, as puppet work from nature. 1859 F. W. Robertson Lect. & Addr. on Literary & Social Topics 150 If you compare Shakespeare's Ariel or Puck..with these automatons, you will feel the difference between a living creation and cleverly moved puppet work. 2003 Irish Tatler Aug. 12/1 Look at an exhibition of Edward Carey's puppet work and then zone out to a series on Australian film. b. Appositive (chiefly in senses 3a and 3c), as puppet government, puppet king, puppet ruler, puppet state, etc. ΚΠ 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xxiv. 853/2 To salute this puppet King, and to welcome these papals. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 196 He is but a Puppet Saint, that moves he knows not how. 1715 N. Rowe Lady Jane Gray iv. i Their puppet queen reigns here. 1774 R. Lloyd Poet. Wks. II. 127 Can you bow down with reverent awe Before this puppet king of straw? 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. xxiii. 286 She very much reminds us of those puppet-heroines, for whom the showman contrives to dialogue without any skill in ventriloquism. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiii. 299 Scotland would have been a smaller Poland, with a puppet sovereign, a turbulent diet, and an enslaved people. 1935 (title) The puppet state of ‘Manchukuo’. 1971 Standard (Dar es Salaam) 7 Apr. 1/1 Those present [at the conference] were undecided about the relative merits of the Sihanouk Government and the American puppet regime. 1992 Daily Mirror TV Weekly 3 Oct. 5/2 If you want noise, dazzle, big furry puppet dogs who fight the cameras..ask your minder to wake you at 7am. C2. puppet man n. = puppet master n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > puppetry > [noun] > puppeteer puppet player1601 puppet man1620 motion-man1631 puppet master1631 poppet-playera1656 poppet-shower1715 puppet-showman1715 puppeteer1915 marionettist1918 1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes 2nd Pt. Don Quixote xxvii. 179 Couering his left eye, to apply himselfe to the office of a Puppet man [Sp. titerero]; for this and iuggling hee was excellent at. 1734 J. Swift Strephon & Cloe in Beautiful Young Nymph 23 From yonder Puppet-Man inquire, Who wisely hides his Wood and Wire. 1827 E. Brown Trial of Cain 15 Now by this puppet man, we here may see A striking emblem of the Deity; Who sits behind the curtain of the skies, And manages the play so nice and wise. 1909 Chatterbox 286/2 I saw the old lame puppet-man sitting on the edge of the wild, unenclosed, gorse-covered common-land. 2005 Daily Star (Nexis) 24 Oct. 20 The guy who takes the job will now be just another stooge for the puppet man to play with in his spare time. puppet master n. a manager of a puppet show; a puppeteer; also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > puppetry > [noun] > puppeteer puppet player1601 puppet man1620 motion-man1631 puppet master1631 poppet-playera1656 poppet-shower1715 puppet-showman1715 puppeteer1915 marionettist1918 the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > person as > mere > one who uses user1931 puppet master1965 1631 B. Jonson New Inne v. v. 96 Fidlers, Rushers, Puppet-masters, Iuglers. 1769 J. Wilkes North Briton lxxii. 432 These mongrel characters..see a necessity of putting on a Whig countenance..though they wear it awkardly..while in the more immediate service of the Puppet-Master. 1891 O. Wilde Critic as Artist in Intentions 157 Life cheats us with shadows, like a puppet-master. 1965 M. Allingham Mind Readers ix. 97 Much more worrying was the question of the mind behind their experiments... Who was the puppet master? 1996 Times 20 May 8/3 In characteristic fashion it contained a cartoon of Mr Sen as a puppet-master, pulling the strings of Prince Ranariddh. puppet valve n. now rare = poppet valve n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > control(s) > [noun] > valve > disk puppet-clack1744 puppet valve1783 poppet1864 1783 Encycl. Brit. X. 8277/1 The steam-clack, or puppet-valve..is a brass valve on the top of a pipe opening into the boiler, to let off the steam when it is too strong. 1835 Amer. Railroad Jrnl. 25 Apr. 245/3 Let the valve be..of the kind called puppet valves. 1887 D. A. Low Introd. Machine Drawing (1892) 108 Sketches showing the construction of a conical metal lift or puppet valve and seating. 1911 Times 23 June 5/1 (advt.) After having used and experimented with several different makes of cars equipped with the old system of puppet valve engines.., I purchased two Daimler cars. Derivatives ˈpuppetdom n. the state or condition of being a puppet; puppets collectively. ΚΠ 1851 S. Judd Margaret (rev. ed.) II. ii. vi. 82 Thy health we drink, thy name we praise, Great King of Puppetdom! defender by the grace of God of England, France and America. 1976 C. R. Stecyk Frontier Tales in Dogtown (2000) 34 It's time for the finals as Buffalo Bob..exchanges witticisms with Howdy Doody, the Will Rogers of puppetdom. 2005 Sunday Times (Nexis) 6 Feb. 20 The reduction of Iraq to puppetdom will stand in history as an act of shameless bullying. ˈpuppethood n. the state or condition of being a puppet. ΚΠ 1885 Sat. Rev. 19 Sept. 369/2 The dethronement or reduction to puppethood of native dynasties. 1981 Mind 90 405 The thought that puppets are blameworthy for not recognizing their puppethood..is at worst incoherent and at best simply false. 2005 Village Voice (Nexis) 29 Nov. 82 Bigonzetti makes perfunctory references to puppethood. Once, the down-and-out hero slumps over and dangles his forearms like an abandoned marionette. † puppetical adj. Obsolete rare relating to a puppet. ΚΠ 1755 J. Kidgell Card II. iv. xi. 56 My Punch (to use a puppetical Expression) was a good, bad and indifferent sort of a Partner. ˈpuppetism n. the state or condition of being a puppet; (also) puppetry. ΚΠ 1801 Ld. Campbell Let. 22 Apr. in Life (1881) I. iii. 69 The intimacy between him [sc. Addington] and Pitt continues as great as ever, and no doubt of his puppetism any longer remains. 1924 Fayetteville (Arkansas) Daily Democrat 8 Mar. 3/1 The Shadowgraph..is Mr. Sarg's newest devise for showing his famous dolls in action, and is a form of animated silhouette, based on ancient Chinese puppetism. 1988 G. Shellenbarger in R. Feldman & M. Betzold End of Line ii. 60 A salaried person is subjected to puppetism. You have instructions that come down from upper-echelon management, and you don't question them. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). puppetv. Brit. /ˈpʌpɪt/, U.S. /ˈpəpət/ Inflections: Present participle puppeting, puppetting; past participle puppeted, puppetted; Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: puppet n. Etymology: < puppet n. Compare poppet v. †1. transitive. To dress (a person) up like a puppet. Obsolete. rare.Perhaps with overtones of puppet n. 4. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > in specific way > other wear?c1225 wear?c1225 wear?a1366 hapc1390 to-ragc1430 to make up1593 puppet1635 to set out1688 undress1818 overclothe1819 toilet1842 1635 F. Quarles Emblemes v. viii. 273 Whom thy fond Indulgence decks And puppets up in soft, in silken weeds. †2. intransitive. Apparently: to behave like a puppet . Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Sir John van Olden Barnavelt (1980) ii. ii. 846 Good Ladies, no more Councells, this is no time to puppet in. 3. transitive. To manipulate like a puppet; to control. Frequently in passive. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > [verb (transitive)] wieldeOE redeOE temperc1000 wisc1000 yemec1000 aweldc1175 guy13.. rule1340 attemperc1374 stightlea1375 justifya1393 governa1400 moder1414 control1495 moderate1534 rein1557 manage1560 sway1587 to bear (a rein) upon1603 bridle1615 ephorize1647 puppet1840 coact1855 boss1856 run1869 swing1873 the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > treat cunningly [verb (transitive)] > manage with cunning puppet1840 manipulate1862 jockey1890 1840 Times 8 Jan. 6/5 Even these allurements..will not always secure a produceable person to undergo the dishonour of being puppeted, patted, and patronized by such a master as the Dublin demagogue. 1917 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Jrnl.-Gaz. 20 Feb. 8/1 The wags of the comic papers..[make] the map of the world appear as a chess board, its figures being puppeted about by forces seen and unseen. 1981 R. Scruton Fortnight's Anger iv. 108 As she moaned in his embrace he had the impression of a distant spirit puppetting her body. 2001 D. Thompson Funk ii. 210 Dobson portrays a federal drug agent..battling drug dealers puppeted by, of all people, Shelley Winters. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1531v.1635
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