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Synonyms for dummy

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Synonyms for dummy

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Synonyms for dummy

a person who does not talk

an ignorant or foolish person

a figure representing the human form

a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet

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make a dummy of

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having the appearance of being real but lacking capacity to function

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So toss your first memory dummy and have the dog go through the single retrieve.
But after a few repetitions your dog should start to relax, open wider and accept the dummy willingly.
Unlike many celebrities who would have given us, in rugby terms "the dummy" and avoided our group, he did just the opposite.
She said: "When it comes to stopping your child using a dummy most parents know what to do, but lack the confidence to do it.
once you've introduced a dummy, woebetide anyone who doesn't have one (or preferably several) on hand at ALL TIMES.
Jessica Headon, from Sandfields in Port Talbot, is glad her two-year-old daughter Tulisa Harding gave up the dummy.
liverpool uk " Stacy bought the "chain dummy" from a stall at Liverpool Women's Hospital, the specialist maternity hospital in Toxteth, and thought it was completely safe.
The breakdown shown in Figure 1 provides enough dummy rounds to run a company-level event with one vehicle per station or a battalion consolidated GST with two vehicles per station.
They cover dummy auxiliaries in monolingual first language acquisitions, simultaneous and successive child bilingualism, adult second language acquisition, and broader perspectives on dummy auxiliaries.
The sets can also be supplied with a cake board to hold the cake and stabilize it, cut to any size to match the cake dummy.
Captain Peacock would be in his element If you can help Penistone Theatre Group's Dummy Hunt, please contact the secretary on 07507 712463 or email secretary@penistonetheatregroup.co.uk.
** COLLINSON-SMITH, Cheryl (text) Michael Smetham (illus.) Dummy Land Self Pub, 2012 unpaged $19.95 pbk
The newly upgraded Hybrid III crash dummy, invented by GM, is used by car manufacturers worldwide for frontal crash tests on vehicles.