Dummy vs Dumbass - What's the difference?
dummy | dumbass |
A silent person; a person who does not talk.
An unintelligent person.
A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
(AU, UK, NZ) A "dummy teat"; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby; a pacifier.
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(card games, chiefly, bridge) A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
(UK) A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player in sport; a feint.
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(linguistics) A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
(programming) An unused parameter or value.
To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.
To feint
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(US, vulgar, slang) A stupid or foolish person.
As nouns the difference between dummy and dumbass
is that dummy is a silent person; a person who does not talk while dumbass is a stupid or foolish person.As a verb dummy
is to make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.As an adjective dumbass is
stupid, foolish.dummy
English
Noun
(dummies)- Don't be such a dummy !
- To understand the effects of the accident, we dropped a dummy from the rooftop.
- The hammer and drill in the display are dummies .
- The baby wants her dummy .
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- Then on the fifth day, at the first sleep of the day, remove the dummy' and follow my settling guide for your baby?s age. You should throw all her ' dummies in the bin to ensure you are not tempted to use them again – even outside sleep times.
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- No Fairy baby has ever been seen to suck its thumb or to use a dummy .
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- We?ve found that going cold turkey works best – you check that your baby isn't ill or teething, then throw all dummies' away. When your baby cries for her ' dummy , you can look her in the eye and say, ‘It?s gone,’ and really mean it.
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- The pronoun "it" in "It's a mystery why this happened" is a dummy .
- If
flag1is false, the other parameters are dummies .
Synonyms
* (a thing in the form of a person) mannequin, marionette * (plastic teat) pacifier (US), soother (Canada)Derived terms
* dummy bid * dummy bidderSee also
* dud * fake * feintExternal links
* http://www.languagehat.com/archives/002594.phpVerb
- The carpenters dummied some props for the rehearsals.
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Derived terms
* dummy out * dummy updumbass
English
Noun
(es)- The dumbass walked off with my car keys and left me hers.