PUPPET
ADJECTIVES
► NEUROSPASTIC pert. to a puppet → 1706 obs.
NOUNS
► BABAN an infant, a young child; a doll, a puppet → c1230 obs.
► BABBON an infant, a young child; a doll, a puppet → 1570 obs.
► BABBY a doll, a puppet; any model of the human figure → Bk1898 Eng. dial.
► BABE a doll, a puppet → 1530 obs.
► BABY a doll, a puppet → 1552 obs.
► BURRATINE a puppet; ‘a sillie gull in a Comedie’ → 1637 obs.
► FANTOCCINI puppets made to go through certain evolutions by means of concealed strings or wires → 1791
► JACK-A-LENT ► JACK O’ LENT a dwarf; a puppet → 1598 arch.
► MALKIN ► MAWKIN a scarecrow; a ragged puppet or grotesque effigy; a ‘guy’ → 1633 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► MOMMET a puppet, an odd figure → 1827 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► NEUROSPAST a figure or puppet moved by strings → 1642 obs.
► POPPY SHOW a puppet show; a peep show; hence, a childish or ridiculous exhibition → 1860 Amer. dial.
► PUPPY PLAY a puppet show → 1640 chiefly Sc. obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
► GALANTY SHOWMAN one who performs a play or pantomime produced by throwing shadows of puppets on to a wall or screen → 1843
► MOTION-MAN one who travelled with a puppet show; the worker or exhibitor of a puppet-show, a puppeteer → 1631 obs.
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