dummy
verb/ˈdʌmi/
/ˈdʌmi/
[transitive, intransitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they dummy | /ˈdʌmi/ /ˈdʌmi/ |
| he / she / it dummies | /ˈdʌmiz/ /ˈdʌmiz/ |
| past simple dummied | /ˈdʌmid/ /ˈdʌmid/ |
| past participle dummied | /ˈdʌmid/ /ˈdʌmid/ |
| -ing form dummying | /ˈdʌmiɪŋ/ /ˈdʌmiɪŋ/ |
- (especially in football (soccer) and rugby) to pretend to make a particular move in order to confuse your opponent
- dummy something She dummied a shot that brought the goalie to her knees.
- He was accused of dummying a penalty.
- + adv./prep. He dummied past five defenders, then shot at the near post.
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from dumb + -y. The original sense was ‘a person who cannot speak’, then ‘an imaginary fourth player in whist’ (mid 18th cent.), whence ‘a substitute for the real thing’ and ‘a model of a human being’ (mid 19th cent.).
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