puppet

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pŭpʹĭt, IPA^(key): /ˈpʌpɪt/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ʌpɪt
• Hyphenation: pup‧pet

Noun

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puppet (plural puppets)

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. (figuratively) A person, country, etc, controlled by another.
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     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

   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 209:

     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. (obsolete) A poppet; a small image in the human form; a doll.
4. (engineering) The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe.

Synonyms

• (a person directed by another): monkey (with reference to organ grinders), creature

Derived terms

• finger puppet
• fuckpuppet
• glove puppet
• hand puppet
• happy puppet syndrome
• meatpuppet
• meat puppet
• Muppet
• puppet army
• puppetdom
• puppeteer
• puppet government
• puppethood
• puppetish
• puppetism
• puppetize
• puppet leader
• puppetless
• puppetlike
• puppetman
• puppetmaster
• puppet regime
• puppet ruler
• puppetry
• puppet show
• puppet state
• puppet valve
• shadow puppet
• sock puppet
• telepuppet

Related terms

• marionette
• muppet
• puppy

Descendants

• → Irish: puipéad
• → Welsh: pyped

Translations

movable model of a person or animal

Acehnese: please add this translation if you can Albanian: kukull (sq) f Amharic: አሻንጉሊት (ʾäšangulit) Arabic: دُمْيَة f (dumya) Armenian: մարիոնետ (hy) (marionet), խամաճիկ (hy) (xamačik), տիկնիկ (hy) (tiknik), խաղատիկնիկ (hy) (xaġatiknik) Azerbaijani: kukla (az) Bashkir: ҡурсаҡ (qursaq) Belarusian: марыяне́тка f (maryjanjétka), ля́лька f (ljálʹka), ку́кла f (kúkla) Bengali: পুতুল (bn) (putul) Bulgarian: ку́кла (bg) f (kúkla), марионе́тка (bg) f (marionétka) Burmese: အရုပ် (my) (a.rup) Catalan: titella (ca) Chakma: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Cantonese: 木偶 (muk6 ngau5), 人偶 (jan4 ngau5), 偶人 (ngau5 jan4) Mandarin: 木偶 (zh) (mù'ǒu), 人偶 (zh) (rén'ǒu), 偶人 (zh) (ǒurén) Cornish: popet m Czech: loutka (cs) f Danish: marionet c Dutch: marionet (nl) f Esperanto: pupo (eo) Estonian: nukk (generic), nuku (colloquial); käpiknukk (in glove form); marionett, hüpiknukk (moved with strings) Finnish: nukke (fi) (generic); käsinukke (fi) (in glove form); sätkynukke (fi), marionetti (fi) (moved with strings) French: marionnette (fr) f Galician: monicreque m, marioneta f, fantoche m, monifate m Georgian: მარიონეტი (marioneṭi), თოჯინა (toǯina) German: Handpuppe (de) f (in glove form), Marionette (de) f (moved with strings) Greek: ανδρείκελο (el) n (andreíkelo), νευρόσπαστο (el) n (nevróspasto), μαριονέτα (el) f (marionéta) Ancient Greek: ἀνδρείκελον n (andreíkelon), νευρόσπαστον n (neuróspaston) Hebrew: בובה \ בֻּבָּה (he) f (bubá) Hindi: कठपुतली (hi) f (kaṭhputlī), गुड़िया (hi) f (guṛiyā), पुतली (hi) f (putlī) Hungarian: báb (hu), bábu (hu) Icelandic: brúða (is) f, leikbrúða f Indonesian: boneka (id) Irish: puipéad Italian: marionetta (it) f, fantoccio (it) m, burattino (it) m, pupazzo (it) m Japanese: 傀儡 (ja) (くぐつ, kugutsu), パペット (papetto), 操り人形 (ja) (ayatsuri ningyō), 偶人 (ja) (ぐうじん, gūjin), 人形 (ja) (にんぎょう, ningyō) Kazakh: қуыршақ (quyrşaq) Khmer: អាយ៉ង (km) (ʼaayɑɑng), ណាំងតាលុង (nang taalung) Korean: 꼭두각시 (ko) (kkokdugaksi), 인형(人形) (ko) (inhyeong), 우인(偶人) (u'in) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: kukla (ku) Kyrgyz: куурчак (ky) (kuurcak) Lao: ຕຸກກະຕາ (lo) (tuk ka tā) Latin: neuropastum n, pupa f Latvian: marionete f, lelle f Lithuanian: marionetė f, lėlė f Macedonian: кукла f (kukla), марионе́та f (marionéta) Malay: boneka, anak patung (ms) Malayalam: പാവ (ml) (pāva) Maori: karetao, tokoraurape Marathi: कठपुतळी f (kaṭhputḷī), कळसूत्री f (kaḷsūtrī) Mongolian: Cyrillic: хүүхэлдэй (mn) (xüüxeldej) Mongolian: ᠬᠡᠦᠬᠡᠯᠳᠡᠢ (keükeldei) Norwegian: Bokmål: marionett m, hånddukke m or f (in glove form) Old East Slavic: кукла f (kukla) Ottoman Turkish: قوقله (kukla), ببك (bebek) Pashto: لوبته (ps) f (lobata), لوبتک m (lobtak), لوبتکه f (lobtǝka), لوڅکه f (lūcaka), ليځکه f (lijǝka), ننځکه f (nanjǝka), پوتلۍ (ps) f (putlay), ګوډاګى f (guḍāgay) Persian: Dari: گُدِی (gudī) Iranian Persian: عَروسَک (arusak) Plautdietsch: Aumpelmaun m Polish: lalka (pl) f Portuguese: fantoche (pt) m Punjabi: Gurmukhi: ਪੁਤਲੀ f (putlī), ਕਠਪੁਤਲੀ f (kaṭhputalī) Rohingya: please add this translation if you can Romagnol: please add this translation if you can Romanian: păpușă (ro) f, marionetă (ro) f Russian: марионе́тка (ru) f (marionétka), ку́кла (ru) f (kúkla) Samoan: papeti Sanskrit: पाञ्चालिका (sa) f (pāñcālikā) Scottish Gaelic: gille-mirein m, pupaid f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: лу̏тка f Roman: lȕtka (sh) f Sinhalese: රූකඩ (rūkaḍa) Slovak: maňuška f, bábka f Slovene: lutka (sl) f Spanish: títere (es) m, marioneta (es) f, fantoche (es) m Swahili: karagosi Swedish: marionett (sv) c Tagalog: sebekoy Tajik: зоча (zoča), лӯхтак (lüxtak), арусак (arusak) Tatar: курчак (tt) (qurçaq) Thai: หุ่นเชิด (th) (hùn-chə̂ət) Tibetan: ཨ་ལག་པད་ཀོག (a lag pad kog) Turkish: kukla (tr) Turkmen: gurjak Ukrainian: маріоне́тка f (marionétka), ля́лька (uk) f (ljálʹka), ку́кла (uk) f (kúkla) Urdu: گُڑِیا f (guṛiyā), پُتْلِی f (putlī) Uyghur: قورچاق (qorchaq) Uzbek: qoʻgʻirchoq (uz) Vietnamese: con rối (vi) Welsh: pyped m Yiddish: ליאַלקע f (lyalke), מאַריאָנעטטע f (maryonette)

doll — see doll

person or country controlled by another

Albanian: kukull (sq) f Arabic: دُمْيَة f (dumya) Armenian: մարիոնետ (hy) (marionet), խամաճիկ (hy) (xamačik) Azerbaijani: qondarma (az), kukla (az) Belarusian: марыяне́тка f (maryjanjétka) Bulgarian: марионе́тка (bg) f (marionétka) Catalan: ninot (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 傀儡 (zh) (kuǐlěi), 提線木偶 / 提线木偶 (zh) (tíxiàn mù'ǒu) Czech: loutka (cs) f Danish: marionet c Dutch: marionet (nl) m or f Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Estonian: nukk, marionett Finnish: nukkevaltio (country), nukkehallitsija (fi) (ruler); sätkynukke (fi), marionetti (fi) (person), nukke (fi) Georgian: მარიონეტი (marioneṭi) German: Marionette (de) f Greek: μαριονέτα (el) f (marionéta) Hebrew: בובה \ בֻּבָּה (he) f (bubá) Hungarian: báb (hu) Icelandic: leikbrúða f, strengjabrúða f Indonesian: boneka (id) Italian: marionetta (it) f, fantoccio (it) m, pedina (it) f Japanese: 人形 (ja) (にんぎょう, ningyō), 傀儡 (ja) (かいらい、kairai) Korean: 꼭두각시 (ko) (kkokdugaksi), 괴뢰(傀儡) (ko) (goeroe) Latvian: marionete f Lithuanian: marionetė f Malay: boneka Malayalam: ചരടുപാവ (caraṭupāva) Mongolian: Cyrillic: тоглоом (mn) (togloom) Norwegian: Bokmål: marionett m, nikkedukke (no) m or f (literally “nodding doll”) Polish: marionetka (pl) f Portuguese: marionete (pt) f, fantoche (pt) m Romanian: marionetă (ro) f Russian: марионе́тка (ru) f (marionétka) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: лу̏тка f Roman: lȕtka (sh) f Slovak: bábka f Slovene: lutka (sl) f Spanish: títere (es) m, marioneta (es) f, fantoche (es) m, monigote (es) m, pelele (es) m Swedish: marionett (sv) c, marionett- (e.g. marionettregering = controlled government, marionettstat (sv) = controlled country), sprattelgubbe (sv) c, nickedocka c Thai: หุ่นเชิด (th) (hùn-chə̂ət) Turkish: kukla (tr) Ukrainian: маріоне́тка f (marionétka) Vietnamese: con rối (vi), bù nhìn (vi)

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Verb

puppet (third-person singular simple present puppets, present participle puppeting, simple past and past participle puppeted)

1. (transitive, also figuratively) To control or manipulate like a puppet.