marionette

See also: Marionette

English

A marionette being manipulated by a puppetmaster during a traditional yoke thé performance in Bagan, Myanmar

Etymology

Borrowed from French marionnette. One of the first figures to be made into a marionette was the Virgin Mary, hence the name.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

marionette (plural marionettes)

  1. A puppet, usually made of wood, which is animated by the pulling of strings.
    • 1885 — Gilbert and Sullivan, The Mikado
      If you think we are worked by strings,
      Like a Japanese marionette,
      You don't understand these things:
      It is simply Court etiquette.
  2. (zoology) The buffel duck.

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Verb

marionette (third-person singular simple present marionettes, present participle marionetting, simple past and past participle marionetted)

  1. (transitive) To control (somebody) as if they were a puppet; to manipulate.

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Interlingua

Noun

marionette (plural marionettes)

  1. marionette

Italian

Noun

marionette f

  1. plural of marionetta

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Portuguese

Noun

marionette f (plural marionettes)

  1. superseded spelling of marionete.
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