[
UK
/mˈænɪkˌɪn/
]
NOUN
- a life-size dummy used to display clothes
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a woman who wears clothes to display fashions
she was too fat to be a mannequin - a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal
How To Use mannikin In A Sentence
- This month’s exhibit was on the history of surgical instruments, and I glanced at the array of therapeutic weaponry—from crude, stone trepans exposing the cerebral tissue within a mannikin’s skull to lasers traversing arterial tunnels. Over the Edge
- Saraquael was working there, putting a wingless mannikin into a small box. SMOKE AND MIRRORS
- He had a sudden picture of himself sitting, a little mannikin, on a satin cushion. COFFIN ON THE WATER
- 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. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction
- _solopachium_, meaning a "mannikin eighteen inches high"; Saumasius proposes salopygium, a "wagtail"; several editors have _salaputium_, an indelicate word nurses used to children when they fondled them, so that the exclamation would mean, "what a learned little puppet! The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus
- A giant Golden Orb Weaver spider caught a chestnut-breasted mannikin bird in its web and made a leisurely lunch on the bird. Boing Boing
- 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
- The birds take liberties with the mannikin, foul creatures alight upon it, the bourgeois laugh at it. Les Miserables
- Before starting I rigged up a kind of mannikin with old coats and a cushion -- something to cast a shadow on the blind. The Bolted Door
- As they went back to the register, Allie's gaze fell on a mannikin in the corner. GINNY BATES ON HALLOWEEN