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. The word originally meant a small statue of the Virgin Mary, then also a puppet of her used in religious theatrical presentations, finally generalised to any puppet.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌmæɹi.əˈnɛt/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛt
Noun
marionette (plural marionettes)
- A puppet, usually made of wood, which is animated by the pulling of strings.
- 1885, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, […] The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu, London: Chappel & Co., […], →OCLC:
- If you think we are worked by strings,
Like a Japanese marionette,
You don't understand these things:
It is simply Court etiquette.
- (obsolete) The buffel duck.[1]
Derived terms
Translations
string puppet
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Verb
marionette (third-person singular simple present marionettes, present participle marionetting, simple past and past participle marionetted)
- (transitive) To control (somebody) as if they were a puppet; to manipulate.
See also
<references>
marionette on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Marionettes in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)- manipulator
Anagrams
Interlingua
Italian
Anagrams
Portuguese
Noun
marionette f (plural marionettes)
- Superseded spelling of marionete.
- “marionette”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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