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Shadow puppet

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sock puppetnoun(Internet slang, derogatory) An alternative pseudonymous online account, especially one used for abuse.
puppetnounAny small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings or rods, or in the form of a glove.
finger puppetnounA small puppet manipulated from the inside by the puppeteer's fingers.
hand puppetnounA puppet operated by the hand, especially one in which the puppeteer's hand occupies and controls the head.
poupetonnoun(obsolete) A puppet.
punchnoun(countable) A hit or strike with one's fist.
punchinellonounA traditional Italian puppet, in the form of a short fat clown.
playtoynounA plaything.
poppetnoun(informal, term of endearment) An endearingly sweet or beautiful child.
gnomonnounAn object such as a pillar or a rod that is used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it, especially the pointer on a sundial.
voodoo dollnounA poppet; a doll made to resemble a person in order to cast spells on them or to galvanize some change in them by modifying the doll, often by inserting pins and needles or by binding it.
sticknounAn elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
punch and judynounA traditional sideshow often found at seaside resorts, consisting of various glove puppets operated by one person in a small tent-style booth theatre.
vertepnounA portable Ukrainian puppet theater.
pegletnounA little peg.
raree shownounA public spectacle, especially seen as lurid or vulgar.
puppet valvenoun(engineering) A simple type of valve, consisting of one or more circular plates held down by a spring.
mushroomnounAny of the fleshy fruiting bodies of fungi typically produced above ground on soil or on their food sources (such as decaying wood).
monkey's pawnoun(idiomatic, usually attributive) A situation in which a wish or desire has been fulfilled, but at significant cost or with ironic, usually unfavourable consequences.
pupletnounA little dog; a puppy.

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