What does it mean to be a plaything?
toy
: a toy. : a person or thing that you treat in a careless way and use for your own amusement or advantage. See the full definition for plaything in the English Language Learners Dictionary.
What’s the name for a doll?
What is another word for doll?
| puppet | dolly |
|---|---|
| figurine | figure |
| marionette | model |
| poppet | toy |
| manikin | plaything |
What is the synonym of plaything?
nountrinket; decorative piece. bagatelle. bauble. bibelot. bric-a-brac.
What is the compound meaning of playthings?
a thing to play with; toy. a person who is used capriciously and selfishly by another.
What do you call a group of dolls?
There is no specific collective noun for puppets or dolls, as far as I know. If I wanted to group them together, for some reason, I’d use the all-purpose word ‘set’. For example, you could talk about a set of puppets used for a performance.
What are dolls synonyms?
synonyms for doll
- figurine.
- model.
- puppet.
- dolly.
- effigy.
- figure.
- manikin.
- marionette.
What is a synonym for puppet?
Synonyms for puppet. action figure, doll, dolly, poppet. [ Midland] 2 one that is or can be used to further the purposes of another. accused the newspaper editor of being a puppet for the moneyed people of the town.
What is a puppet master?
A puppet master is a person or group that secretly controls other people or things, as if they were puppets. Furthermore, what’s another name for a puppet?
What is a marionette puppet called?
A marionette is a puppet controlled from above using wires or strings depending on regional variations. A marionette’s puppeteer is called a marionettist. One may also ask, who is the puppet master?
What is the story of the wooden puppet?
“He invented a puppet in the shape of a wooden woman, which was made by strings and springs to dance on the battlements of the beleaguered town.” “The girls go into the wood, cut down a young tree, and fasten to it a puppet dressed in white clothes to look like a woman.”