Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
manikin .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun any of several
Asiatic passerine birds of the genus Mannikin
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a woman who wears clothes to display fashions
- noun a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal
- noun a life-size dummy used to display clothes
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Examples
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A robot dolphin is not a real dolphin, any more than a mannikin is a man.
Recycled Robot Fish Teach Japanese Children About Sealife | Inhabitat
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The daughter, nine years old, and not above forty feet high, was very good natured, became my schoolmistress, and called me Grildrig, which imports in English, mannikin.
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Before starting I rigged up a kind of mannikin with old coats and a cushion -- something to cast a shadow on the blind.
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Before starting I rigged up a kind of mannikin with old coats and a cushion -- something to cast a shadow on the blind.
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Before starting I rigged up a kind of mannikin with old coats and a cushion -- something to cast a shadow on the blind.
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Condi playing piano for the Queen, Condi at the Kennedy Center awards - are we still paying this mannikin to be Secretary of State?
Clinton to Dine With Condoleezza Rice - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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A giant Golden Orb Weaver spider caught a chestnut-breasted mannikin bird in its web and made a leisurely lunch on the bird.
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This warden of all wardens has cracked the shell of this year's confidence, shaking the fragile mannikin of selfhood that you've patched together on the eve of becoming a doctor. '
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As they went back to the register, Allie's gaze fell on a mannikin in the corner.
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The birds take liberties with the mannikin, foul creatures alight upon it, the bourgeois laugh at it.
reesetee commented on the word mannikin
Apparently this word can also be spelled maniken or manakin. Hmm.
February 13, 2007
mollusque commented on the word mannikin
An Old World weaverbird or waxbill of the genus Lonchura. Compare manakin.
September 28, 2008