Meaning of Manikin | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A little man (sometimes as a term of endearment).
2. A three-dimensional figure, dummy or effigy representing a man or person.
3. Alternative spelling of mannequin.
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Equivalents

Examples

“This is a dear manikin to you, Sir Toby.”

“She was very good natur’d, and not above Forty foot high, being little for her age. She gave me the name⟳ Grildrig, which the Family took up, and afterwards the whole Kingdom. The Word imports what the Latins call⟳ Nanunculus, the Italians Homunceletino, and the English Mannikin.”

“[…] when he asked Harry about singing, the lad broke out with a hymn to the tune⟳ of Dr. Martin Luther, which set⟳ Mr. Holt a-laughing; and even caused his grand parrain in the laced hat and periwig to laugh⟳ too when Holt told him what the child was singing. For it appeared that Dr. Martin Luther’s hymns were not sung in the churches Mr. Holt preached at. ¶ “You must never sing⟳ that song any more: do you hear⟳, little mannikin?” says my Lord Viscount, holding up a finger.”

““Well, my mannikin, what do you think⟳ of us?” asked Rose, to break⟳ an awkward pause.”

“I took a deep breath. I put⟳ my hands to the sides of my mouth. “Cavor!” I bawled, and the sound⟳ was like⟳ some manikin shouting far away.”

“I hope⟳ you will not consider⟳ the expression too anthropomorphically, and picture the dream⟳ censor as a severe little manikin who lives in a little brain chamber and there performs his duties […]”

“[…] he fumbled in the pockets, and produced at length a curious little deformed image with a hunch on its back, and exactly the color of a three days’ old Congo baby. Remembering the embalmed head, at first I almost thought that this black manikin was a real baby preserved in some similar manner. But seeing that it was not at all limber, and that it glistened a good deal⟳ like⟳ polished ebony, I concluded that it must be nothing but a wooden idol, which indeed it proved to be.”

“1859, Fitz James O’Brien, “The Wondersmith” in The Poems and Stories of Fitz-James O’Brien, James R. Osgood & Co., 1881, reprinted by University Press⟳: John Wilson & Son, Cambridge, 1969, pp. 179-180, The window […] contains the only pleasant object in the place⟳. This is a beautiful little miniature theatre,—that is to say⟳, the orchestra and stage⟳. It is fitted with charmingly painted scenery and all the appliances for scenic changes. There are tiny traps and delicately constructed “lifts,” and real footlights fed with burning-fluid, and in the orchestra sits a diminutive conductor before his desk, surrounded by musical manikins, all provided with the smallest of violoncellos, flutes, oboes, drums, and such like⟳.”

““[…] I rigged up a kind of mannikin with old coats and a cushion—something to cast⟳ a shadow on the blind. All you fellows were used to seeing my shadow there in the small hours—I counted on that, and knew you’d take⟳ any vague outline as mine.””

“Best scene: Hope⟳ trying to sneak⟳ the clothes off a department-store manikin without attracting attention from the crowd outside the window.”

“1997, American Red Cross, Sport Safety Training: Instructor’s Manual, Granada Learning Limited, p. 118, Students should be told in advance that training sessions will involve⟳ close⟳ physical contact⟳ with manikins used by their fellow students.”

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