puppet English

Meaning puppet meaning

What does puppet mean?

Definitions in simple English

puppet Noun

— A puppet is a doll or animal figure that is moved by strings. Another name for a string puppet is a marionette.

— A puppet is a doll or animal figure that is moved by a hand place inside it. Mr. Punch is a famous glove puppet from the "Punch and Judy" puppet show.

— A puppet is a doll or animal figure that is moved with long sticks. The play had a large dragon puppet with four men using long sticks to make it flap its wings.

— A puppet is a person whose actions are controlled by other people. The new President was simply a puppet of the army generals.

puppet

— noun a small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer

— 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

— noun (= creature) a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else

Synonyms puppet synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as puppet?

puppet English » English

doll

marionette

dummy

tool

stooge

figure

effigy

straw-man

staw-man

statue

private agent personal agent

moppet

glove puppet

front man agent

front man

fantoccini

dolly

creature

wooden image

wimp

vestal virgin

robot

replica

quisling

portrait

manipulation

manikin

lay figure

jumping jack

hand puppet

glove doll

doll-like

child

Punch-and-Judy show

Examples puppet examples

How do I use puppet in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The Foreign Minister was a puppet.

During the 20th century, Manchukuo was a puppet state.

Have you ever seen a puppet show?

A puppet does not know that it is being controlled.

This puppet is my only friend.

Australia is a puppet state.

This corporation is a political puppet.

A puppet doesn't know that it is being manipulated.

Movie subtitles

He was a spineless puppet.

I'll show you my puppet.

A puppet!

Little puppet made of pine, wake.

Remember, Giddy, the time I tied strings on you and passed you off as a puppet?

A live puppet without strings.

I'm a junior partner of Fenton, Rayburn and Company, not a puppet.

If I am a puppet and Mr Craig is pulling the strings, at least he can tell me more about the part he's giving me to play.

I am like a painted puppet with strings.

I will not be a puppet to be move for your pleasure.

Wants us both to take the train to Osaka and meet the girls at the puppet show.

Puppet show.

The word of a king or a puppet?

It upsets you, doesn't it? The puppet master ran across a puppet who won't perform and then cuts all his strings.

Remember, Gideon, the time I tied strings on you. and passed you off as a puppet?

For this gut scraper. This puppet of people like myself.

You're a puppet and a dirty man.

The correct ancestry for a puppet.

Independently, you mean. The puppet has pulled the strings herself.

I'd rather play Santa Claus than a puppet.

And then, one day. I finally held the puppet in my arms.

You treated me like a puppet.

No, Georges, not like a puppet. Like a kid.

And the Kasperle puppet, which seems particularly absurd.

A mere puppet like this could never touch Father's heart.

And they think a puppet like you could sit on a throne?

Well, good-bye, my puppet.

Sanshiro is like a lifeless puppet.

Yes, I like that puppet show because one can still find Punch there.

To become one of the kings of the Earth one has only to marry that little puppet.

So I hid mine behind the curtain of a puppet stage.

Must I make a new puppet for the small part of me you've managed to see?

News and current affairs

He denounced Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan as a mere puppet of the sinister governor of Illinois, John Peter Altgeld.

It is much more difficult to appoint a political puppet to the Board in a system of open competition than under the current scheme.

But he was not popular because the public viewed him as a puppet of China and a crony of big developers, particularly Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong's richest person.

US actions will spark Iraqi criticism that Maliki is impotent or an American puppet, but those charges have already been made.

For nearly 100 years, first the British empire and then the US manipulated Middle Eastern governments, launched coups, bought puppet regimes, and supported wars, with the main purpose of controlling the region's oil flows.

The key to oil security is peace, not military occupation and puppet regimes.

What if the supposed puppet starts to pull the strings?

Medvedev is far from being Putin's puppet.

But once there was a real Che Guevara: he is less well known than the fictional puppet that has replaced reality.

Both joined the Resistance when France was a Nazi puppet state, and both called for Algerian independence after France regained its sovereignty.

In South Africa, the creators asked for - and got - a puppet that was an HIV-positive child, since acceptance of such kids was a lesson that local educators told the New York team they needed to teach.

In taking on Surkov, Prokhorov demonstrated his refusal to be a puppet.

Everyone expects that the current president, the puppet Dmitry Medvedev, to switch roles with Putin after the March elections.

Soon after, the idea of establishing a puppet regime in Warsaw took root.

The Islamist governments that have emerged from the downfall of America's puppet regimes are no friends of an Iranian nuclear empire.

Bush's refusal to set a deadline for withdrawing troops is not taken as a sign of resolve, but as a statement of America's intent to remain in Iraq, establish a puppet regime, control the country's oil and set up permanent military bases.

Unless Montenegro's Djukanovic can be prevailed upon to work with the opposition in order to strip Milosevic of power by stripping him of his puppet prime minister, elections and compromises are the way to a democratic Serbia.

To dismiss Medvedev as a mere Putin puppet, a constitutional bridge between Putin's second and third presidential terms, would be both unfair and wrong.