Cummy vs. Dummy

Cummy vs. Dummy — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Cummy and Dummy

Cummyadjective

(slang) Resembling or covered with semen.

Dummynoun

A silent person; a person who does not talk.

Dummynoun

An unintelligent person.

Don't be such a dummy!

Dummynoun

A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.

Dummynoun

Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.

To understand the effects of the accident, we dropped a dummy from the rooftop.

Dummynoun

A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.

The hammer and drill in the display are dummies.
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Dummynoun

A "dummy teat"; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby; a pacifier.

The baby wants her dummy.

Dummynoun

A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.

Dummynoun

(UK) A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player in sport; a feint.

Dummynoun

(linguistics) A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.

The pronoun "it" in "It's a mystery why this happened" is a dummy.

Dummynoun

(programming) An unused parameter or value.

If flag1 is false, the other parameters are dummies.

Dummynoun

(chiefly in rugby and soccer) a feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent.

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Dummyverb

To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.

The carpenters dummied some props for the rehearsals.

Dummyverb

To feint

Dummynoun

a person who does not talk

Dummynoun

an ignorant or foolish person

Dummynoun

a figure representing the human form

Dummynoun

a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet

Dummyverb

make a dummy of;

dummy up the books that are to be published

Dummyadjective

having the appearance of being real but lacking capacity to function;

a dummy corporation