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What is the noun for dummy?

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dummy
  1. A silent person; a person who does not talk.
  2. An unintelligent person.
  3. A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
  4. Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
  5. A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
  6. (Australia, Britain, New Zealand) A "dummy teat"; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby; a pacifier. [from 20th c.]
  7. (card game) A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
  8. (Britain) A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player in sport; a feint.
  9. (linguistics) A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
  10. (programming) An unused parameter or value.
  11. Synonyms:
  12. Examples:
    1. “He was no dummy and you had to be slick when playing this kind of game around him.”
      “The dressmaker's dummy and a blue wing chair that is used repeatedly are symbolic of the upper-middle-class venues of Mammy's travail.”
      “When Caroline arrived, she quickly mocked up a dummy of The Lady while I gazed on in awe.”
dummies
  1. plural of dummy
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “By kissing their babies or licking their babies' dummies, parents could inadvertently be increasing their risk of cot death.”
      “Of course, NATO knows that we have these dummies, but cannot tell a dummy from a real rocket.”
      “Far too often the cats are clearly not real cats, but cat dummies and computer-generated cats.”
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