Definition of Puppet

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Puppet

A small image in the human form; a doll.

A similar figure moved by the hand or by a wire in a mock drama; a marionette; a wooden actor in a play.

One controlled in his action by the will of another; a tool; -- so used in contempt.

The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe.

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Puppet Quotations

I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.
Walt Disney

The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet.
Dennis Rodman

I've never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I've done a lot of stuff. I don't know that I would put the puppets on when I was pitching a show. This was the head of the studio putting a puppet show on. And I'll tell you, he wasn't bad.
Garry Shandling

If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities.
Jim Henson

When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.
Jim Henson

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
Hedy Lamarr

Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
Oriana Fallaci

Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.
Ted Rall

I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.
Fred Saberhagen

The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.
Mary Wortley Montagu

Puppet Translations

puppet in Afrikaans is pop
puppet in Dutch is marionet
puppet in German is Marionette
puppet in Italian is marionetta, burattino
puppet in Portuguese is fantoche
puppet in Swedish is marionett

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