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Word entry · 6 letters

puppet

Best crossword clue

"hand figure"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈpʌpɪt/Part of speech nounSorted eppptuStarts with PEnds with T1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. A figure moved by a hand, strings, or rods for performance.

Word origin

From Middle English popet, probably from, though attested earlier than, Middle French poupette, diminutive of poupée (cf. also Medieval Latin *pupata), ultimately derived from Latin pupa (“doll, puppet; girl”). The nominal form first appears c. 1531, and the verbal form c. 1635. See also puppy.

Used in a sentence

  • These men , from no worse motive that could be discovered than a thirst after knowledge beyond their sphere , committed burglary upon the barn in which the puppets had been consigned to repose
  • Every act of a Roman, from birth to death, from dawn to night, was controlled and supervised by some presiding deity. Man was thus virtually a symbolic puppet in the hands of the Roman pantheon.

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